This isn't about Wilson or Rockport. I'm simply saying, I hope a speaker from any manufacture that cost "49% more" sounds better. I'm assuming the Aviors sounds better than the Mira 2s? It should at "76 %" more. I like comparison like, are the Altairs 233% better than Aviors? To me it helps to put things in perspective.
On a side note: I will be listening to Aviors in a couple of days.
Assuming the same make and the same product line/family, price and size are often directly proportional. Every time I changed speakers to a larger, more expensive one it has because I changed rooms to a larger one. I'd be happy with just as good but if you go from a 20sq/m room to an 80sq/m room, and you're after maintaing scale in the same way you'd go from a 42" plasma to an anamorphic projection system, it just ain't going to happen with the smaller less expensive speaker.
The better companies do their best not to sacrifice quality whatever the size and thus price of their speakers, instead, they make loudspeakers for different sized domiciles. Often they have separate lines where the sacrifices are made to be more affordable.
If one were to ask if their reference lines were really better than their more commercial lines, I think the greater majority will agree. Whether the price difference is worth it is a different story altogether. While I have known many of people that wouldn't pony up, I have never met anyone that did not wish deep down that they could one day move up if not now, sometime in the future.
