I see ads for "big speakers with lots of drivers' in Stereophile.. even now. What I think as a grimace is: "That guy must have a very small penis." (currently two 'small P' guys run ads.. one show the dude with his hand arched up over the top of the ugliest chunk of crap I have seen. The other shows a slightly 'hipper' small P dude sitting on the top of his 7 foot tall creation.
As for 'classic' and your disparagement of how stuff becomes classic, and why it remaines classic: sorry your wrong. Stuff gets called classic because it is stuff a lot of long time 'philes have, or keep, or want. McIntosh. Levinson (early), ARC, Infinity IRS (only), Conrad-Johnson, Certain Marantz, Krell, Threshold, JBL, Altec Lansing..
Certainly a few folks just parrot what they hear about. But that stuff had a following, and a 'waiting list' of hopeful buyers. I am afraid I would pass up a pair of your speakers even at a rummage sale for $100. As would most folks (unless they hoped to grab them, hype them up.. them offer them for sale. ? Is that what you are doing? (if not, I apologize, and congratulate you on being true to what you like. But I do have to say your post sounds more like a sales pitch than a love affair)).
As for 'classic' and your disparagement of how stuff becomes classic, and why it remaines classic: sorry your wrong. Stuff gets called classic because it is stuff a lot of long time 'philes have, or keep, or want. McIntosh. Levinson (early), ARC, Infinity IRS (only), Conrad-Johnson, Certain Marantz, Krell, Threshold, JBL, Altec Lansing..
Certainly a few folks just parrot what they hear about. But that stuff had a following, and a 'waiting list' of hopeful buyers. I am afraid I would pass up a pair of your speakers even at a rummage sale for $100. As would most folks (unless they hoped to grab them, hype them up.. them offer them for sale. ? Is that what you are doing? (if not, I apologize, and congratulate you on being true to what you like. But I do have to say your post sounds more like a sales pitch than a love affair)).