How does this make sense, any sense? Any sense at all??


I was just looking at Stereophile's  recommended components, for speakers. 
Within the Class A restricted extreme low frequencies category are:
KEF LS50 at $1500  and
Wilson Sasha at $38,000.
Why would you pay 38 grand when you can get the same category for 1500?  Why I say?

Even worse!!!
In the full range Class B category we have the KEF Ref. 5 at $20,000.
Why would you wanna pay $20,000 for a speaker that is outclassed by the same family (KEF LS50) at a fraction of the price?
How does this make any sense????
Stereophile, seriously.  Let 'er rip homie. 


shtinkydog
I thought I saw somewhere stat that the LS50 uses the same tweeter as the Blade.  Not sure though.  It would be nice to know!

I think LS50’s are pretty awesome.  The clarity and imaging are pretty great.  They do some things better than most speakers and then there are a few things they don’t do so well.  I have never heard them on really high End stuff but I’ve heard the scale with equipment also.
*L*   As for the 'Chewbacca Defense', I'd rather relate to 'letting the Wookie Win Option"...as in 'they might tear your arms off if they lose.'

Not applicable to the Stereophile bi-polar review rankings, but certainly funnier....
Additional (perhaps, 'addict-tional') musings about audio, and how things 'sound'....

Do or have any of you seen the movie "Phantom of the Paradise"?
An entertaining remake of the Phantom/Opera, in the R'nR 'daze'...*G*

There is a segment where The Devil (played by Paul Williams!) has our anti-hero in a studio, singing his 'hit' song.  The man can barely croak in key musically....
Although it pushes the concept a large amount (considering the era the film was made in), the Devil 'restores' the original voice of our poor abused artist with the application of 'modern tech'....Eq, Dolby, etc.

Ever since....I've regarded 'reviews' of various 'devices' as.... 

"Suspect".....Subject to my Own ears, taste...and Desires.

...but I'm just 'fringe' in this 'observation'.....'IMHO', 'n all that... ;)


I think the little KEF is class A within the context of very small monitors.  If you compare it to the field of comparably sized monitors it was judged as good as any of them.