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The cunning trick utilized within the speaker industry

In this post, you will learn about a cunning trick used within the speaker industry right under our noses.

New speakers come out every single year. Think about that. How can progress happen so frequently and so constantly? Is it not more likely that we are being duped into thinking that advances have been made just so they can sell us the next "new" speaker?

If we look back at the speaker measurements in the reviews by Mr Atkinson, over the past 20 years, do we see a steady upward progression in frequency response flatness? Has there been a progression in any aspect of the measurements over that period?
No there has not. 

Wake up and smell the coffee folks. It's like the way the branding of food and drink changes over the years although the product remains the same. Except when it comes to speakers, we expect improvements, not the same thing. And yet there is no evidence to show that the sound quality IS getting better. 

Do not be duped!
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Those little devils.....👺

Actually the technology available to design and manufacture speaker components to strict tolerances that produce better performance continues to improve and become more affordable for manufacturers to apply. The end product overall can be of much higher quality and considerably smaller than in the past as a result. Very much like how computers continue to become faster, more powerful and smaller over time.

It’s much easier to envision the whole world is a bunch of knuckle dragging con artists (there are plenty of those too) and Nothing is going nowhere as a result than it is to actually do the research needed to learn how things can actually work and get better. 


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