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What if there were no more new speaker models?

So you have your speakers and you're happy and satisfied. and you have no desire for a change.

How would you feel if they never produced another new speaker model?  Do you live for the day when you can buy a better speaker?

if they stopped introducing newer models, would they still continue to produce existing speaker models or would all the speaker companies go out of business?  They must continue to advance what they do otherwise they have no future, sort of like the need for technology advancements.  Curiously, toasters are still basically the same as they were 50 years ago except now with fancy displays.  But they are still producing toasters.

Maybe this bodes well for the future of the speaker business.

Are they able to continue to produce speakers that somehow are better than the previous speakers? Will this ever stop? Is anyone excited about new speakers that have been created within the past couple years? What is it that they continue to do to justify continuation of producing newer speaker models that somehow are better?

Why is there demand for newer speaker models? What is it that's being done that makes the speakers better than they were last year? Does anyone know? are the new hi-fi shows each year getting more and more boring to go to? Or more exciting to go to?

emergingsoul
emergingsoul OP
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@phusis 

I've always had a problem with smaller speakers especially the size of the bass drivers. In order to get bass drivers anywhere near what they used to be closer to eight or so inches you have to pay substantially more at the higher end manufacturers line of speakers. It's absolutely ridiculous. Smaller bass drivers like this don't do as good job. Smaller main speakers took a greater foothold in the marketplace like 20 years ago and that was the dawn of the subwoofer movement that are now necessary because the bass drivers are too small. A brilliant move by the manufacturers to expand offerings.

 

 

hilde45's avatar
hilde45
5,994 posts
 

The trick in the midst of this regurgitation is mostly about business accommodation, market competition and to keep people buying your stuff. 

+1 @phusis -- and I’d add, keep people in a consumer mindset and not thinking about concerns that don’t sell products. Mustn’t let that get in the way of "job one."

incorrigable
199 posts
 

Our plan is to stick with Yamaha's Zylon speaker technology in both our main system (NS-5000) and bedroom rig (NS-3000). Other gear may change. Human ears do not change so transponders for the narrow frequency range we can detect is settled technology until a cheap, scalable superconductor can arrive.

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jasonbourne71
1,825 posts
 

@emergingsoul ; the circular spongy thing is called the surround. It attaches the cone to the frame and damps vibrations from reaching the frame. 

sounds_real_audio
1,095 posts
 

 It is the false belief that the speakers alone are responsible for most all of what we hear. Pretty simple. Audiiophiles look at the speakers and can see/hear and tell the sound comes from them. Bad speakers bad sound 

A little like the Dunning-Kruger effect.

 

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