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?
+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. |
Speaker performance mostly comes down to driver and cabinet quality. Get speakers that have SOTA drivers (beryllium, graphene, ribbons, Textreme, Purifi etc.) with a stout cabinet and you can live happily ever after, at least until another substantial technology leap is achieved. An ideal speaker would probably be something like Textreme or graphene woofers with beryllium tweeters and active crossovers in an overbuilt cabinet similar to what Rockport makes. |
