YG Acoustics add in Stereophile

You know what's funny? Their advertisement got them recognition in this forum. Bad press is still press.

Atmashpere, RMAF is hardly the place to truly evalutate speakers.

JohnK, the drivers are not the only thing that goes into a speaker. What if they use Audio Note capacitors at over $1K a piece? Their enclosures are hardly "run of the mill" enclosures. ie mdf with veneer.

I have not heard these speakers....maybe they suck.

John, regardless of whether or not you feel a $1000 cap is overpriced has nothing to do with the actual cost of the parts. I was only pointing out that they may well have the same amount of money into crossovers as they do drivers. In addition they *could* have substatial time into rebuilding stock drivers to their specifications. (This is all speculation, I do not know if they use off the shelf drivers or not) If you design and manufacture loudspeakers, you know as well as anyone that which drivers are used only play a small role in how the system actually sounds. Crossover implementation, cabinet construction, and damping *can* play a larger role than drivers, depending on the system.

I'm not convinced that sound quality is related to retail price. Someone could use lesser drivers than Seas and still make the claim that their system is the best on earth. It is nothing more than a claim, and it is subjective. Because of that, there is no such thing as the "best" speaker. Even if you had a speaker that perfectly reproduced recordings, some may not care for the sound of it.

Atmasphere, you like I, are speculating about the crossover design, and correct me if I'm wrong, you don't actually know if there is a capacitor in the midrange circuit or not.