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?

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Considering all the speakers from the past to today there is something for everyone! I do not forsee any new technology appearing to obsolete past designs.

I'm 74 on fixed income ,there will not be any new speakers add to my collection...unless I find gold in my yard...lol

There’s plenty of unobtanium out there already. As current pricing goes I can’t either afford or justify buying the new stuff I want until it’s been out about a decade. TBH room treatments by someone who knows what they’re doing would likely serve me better than a lottery ticket winning system, but I’ll be deaf or dead before I buy the best current speakers I wish for.

@jasonbourne71 I do not forsee any new technology appearing to obsolete past designs.

+1 newer technology (Magico, Borresson…) does not mean replacement of what’s come before. But the technology can trickle down to lower cost models like my entry level Vimberg Mino, Constellation Inspiration electronics, and my Audionet Humboldt. 

I would be thrilled, as it would end the trend towards tipped up exaggerated high frequency products in pursuit of detail over involvement and listenability.