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I found this forum searching speaker evolution and found a thread by Larry Greenhill interviewing Kevin Voeks on updating the salon 1 to the v2. In it he says> "Listening tests over the past 10 years have taught us one other thing. Above the midprice range of loudspeakers, there is no correlation between the sound quality and the loudspeaker's price. Although many high-priced loudspeakers do perform adequately in our listening tests, the most expensive speaker in a given double-blind listening test may be the least preferred by our listening panel".
Kevin does qualify himself when LG asks why pick the salon over the studio then? But my question here where you guys clearly have experience is? Is kevin full of it? What price did you notice the onset of diminishing returns or speakers started sounding different instead of better? For me the VA Beethovens made around 2000-2002 were the best sound I heard regardless of price but limited by a maximum spl of about 92db they listed for $4000.
I found this forum searching speaker evolution and found a thread by Larry Greenhill interviewing Kevin Voeks on updating the salon 1 to the v2. In it he says> "Listening tests over the past 10 years have taught us one other thing. Above the midprice range of loudspeakers, there is no correlation between the sound quality and the loudspeaker's price. Although many high-priced loudspeakers do perform adequately in our listening tests, the most expensive speaker in a given double-blind listening test may be the least preferred by our listening panel".
Kevin does qualify himself when LG asks why pick the salon over the studio then? But my question here where you guys clearly have experience is? Is kevin full of it? What price did you notice the onset of diminishing returns or speakers started sounding different instead of better? For me the VA Beethovens made around 2000-2002 were the best sound I heard regardless of price but limited by a maximum spl of about 92db they listed for $4000.