Your Side by Side Experience With Best Vintage vs Newer Expensive Hi Tech Speakers

@michaelgreenaudio I want to thank you personally for your contributions to this hobby.

Years ago, component and ancillary changes in my second system yielded much less than the expected impact. After a while and many attempts to rectify the situation, I implemented my own version of your RoomTunes, made with burlap we sewed up stuffed with long-hair carded wool a local mill produced. The effect allowed the sound of the individual components and ancillaries changes to now come forward.

This allowed me to understand why price does not ultimately determine the system success. Folks often stress the importance of synergy in this vein, but the room and system setup therein prove crucial. Every one of us regularly hear systems made up of good components sound much better than systems composed of great (or more often, just more expensive) components set up / integrated less well.

Audiophiles fool themselves believing tone controls no longer exist in this hobby. Consider the countless dollars and discussion threads spent on the hopes for and sonic effect of changing whatever (loudspeaker, power / pre amplifier, tube buffer, CD player, turntable, cartridge) component, resistor / capacitor, vacuum tube, cable, isolation device, tweak, etc. in the quest toward the ultimate destination

If you can afford it and have the room invest in Tannoy Autographs. Best Cabinets ever designed. Could take up to a year to build and tune properly. The music and depth out of those Gold speakers lingers to this day in my mind

Along @michaelgreenaudio comments. Tuning is prime importance. That enclosure has to be in psynch with that woofer. It has to be fine tuned to your drivers to really sing. To the room size too right Michael.

Yeah.... I'm going to beg to differ with that. Those knobs and sliders from yesteryear have a vastly more significant impact on tone than changing some resistors in a typical amp or line stage component. Sure, you can swap out a resistor or two in a few topologies and get alterations in gain upwards of 15dB, but that's across the full bandwidth. There's no doubt guys like me fiddling with distortion are very deliberately using that as a tone control, but it's of a completely different nature and magnitude than turning the knobs on the front of my Marants. I don't think there's much comparison with what I'm doing and what a guy with a 16 band EQ is doing.