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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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Kenjit,
I have personally worked in the loudspeaker manufacturing industry.
And I have seen even in the little factories I have worked in, a discernable and measurable increase in fidelity using hard-nosed science.
Differences in crossover design, materials in the designs, speaker (driver) design, and component changes in technology even down to the internal wiring and terminals.
Have you ever heard a loudspeaker cabinet lined with sprung steel plates, also connected electrically as a ground plane to the crossover? Probably not; yet I own two pairs of speakers utilising this technology.

The World is spinning and you're not well informed as to what technology is out there I'm afraid.
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