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Stitch wrote:

High End will die anyway, it will be replaced with high price tags …

Actually it is very valid point. High-End Audio as a notion implies advance sound reproduction by all means, with disregard to cost-benefit analyses or any other considerations. Unfortunately many manufacture today offer just high prices, in fact ridicules high prices but do not offer audio advancement.  Interesting the high prices are not the presentation of high flying topology but just the tribute to un-punished environment where audio pimps operate. Nowadays it is impolite to make a loudspeaker that cost less than $100K and to propose that it might sound well. Interesting the this $100K does not buy an advanced topology of better sound and in most of the cases it deliver sound very comparable to $150 JVC table radio. I am very much not kidding. The only loudspeaker from the late time that I feel is topological more or less justified to have high cost are Cresaro Gamma but still – they are TAD level loudspeakers if you know what I mean. No matter what you do with TAD driver they will still do not get better then TAD drivers – so in my mind Cresaro Gamma are at the level of the same $20K retail – with TADs they will not do anything pushy.

What I am interested is to see why buy those $250K loudspeakers. For sure no one does and they if are sold then at huge secretive discounts, perhaps at 65-75% off. Still, the people who pay even $50K-$70K for a pair of loudspeakers – do they have any mind to understand that for $50K they shell have something more than shiny box with 2-3 drivers?

A few years back I was meeting a local audio guy who did pay around $65K for a pair of new loudspeakers – 3 drivers in box. I visited him, it sounded like shit, not only because of loudspeakers but because many other reasons. I of course told him but he insisted that I do not understand anything.  I asked him what I need to understand. She pointed out to me that the wood pattern on his right and left loudspeaker is absolutely symmetric and if left loudspeaker has under the shiny surface some kind of wooden texture then the right loudspeaker has absolutely identical texture but mirrored.  Honestly, the guy was so proud about this fact that I decided do not ruin his triumph. I did not go to his listening room since then however…

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