I get your point but not the purpose of your post. Are you just trying to rile people up or is there another purpose?
But I will bite, think of speakers and for that matter your system like art work. You like what you hear, you have a price point and you enjoy music so you put the system together and enjoy. Eventually you might tire with the sound you created so you make some changes and it sounds great again, fresh and new, so you are satisfied and continue to enjoy this new set up, similar to adding another piece of artwork to your collection that you enjoy and falls into your budget. You rinse and repeat as often as it satisfies your need for new and improved sounding reproduced music. It will never sound exactly like live music but close enough to your ears and most important you like what you hear and it gives you enjoyment. It is something that you created by putting all the pieces together and can evolve over time with advances in technology, changes in designers ideas, your hearing loss, changes/additions in your tastes in music, changes in your room, and a host of other influences. The bottom line is it gives you pleasure like any other form of artistic expression, but like a painting of a landscape it is a representation and not the real thing but it pleases your senses. Similar to other creative fields the more accomplished the artist / designer, and in this field, speaker designer, the higher the price you pay for their most prestigious pieces. We all know that the individual pieces that comprise a high end speaker is nowhere near the price that you must pay to own the speaker similar to the price of the canvas and oil paint is nowhere near the price you pay to buy and hang that painting on your wall.
But I will bite, think of speakers and for that matter your system like art work. You like what you hear, you have a price point and you enjoy music so you put the system together and enjoy. Eventually you might tire with the sound you created so you make some changes and it sounds great again, fresh and new, so you are satisfied and continue to enjoy this new set up, similar to adding another piece of artwork to your collection that you enjoy and falls into your budget. You rinse and repeat as often as it satisfies your need for new and improved sounding reproduced music. It will never sound exactly like live music but close enough to your ears and most important you like what you hear and it gives you enjoyment. It is something that you created by putting all the pieces together and can evolve over time with advances in technology, changes in designers ideas, your hearing loss, changes/additions in your tastes in music, changes in your room, and a host of other influences. The bottom line is it gives you pleasure like any other form of artistic expression, but like a painting of a landscape it is a representation and not the real thing but it pleases your senses. Similar to other creative fields the more accomplished the artist / designer, and in this field, speaker designer, the higher the price you pay for their most prestigious pieces. We all know that the individual pieces that comprise a high end speaker is nowhere near the price that you must pay to own the speaker similar to the price of the canvas and oil paint is nowhere near the price you pay to buy and hang that painting on your wall.