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False? So where are the CEA 2034 for Tekton and PS Audio? Please show me.We haven’t gotten the industry to send speakers to Amir or Erin routinely, but I think it’s different to say that companies send review units to reviewers where they think they will get a review versus the pretty bold claim that they “work really hard to prevent their speakers from being measured.”
That’s like Ferrari. Where you aren’t allowed to buy future Ferraris if you show the car in a bad light.
It is pretty easy for PS Audio to just send speakers to magazines that don’t have measurements - the fact that they sent it to places like Hifi News strongly suggests that your claim of them working hard to prevent speakers being measured is false.
Aside from the one that Amir did, which was sent to him by a member? The word is that Tekton and PS Audio get the reviewers contractual agreement that there speakers will not be measured via the CEA 2034 standard.
No, if I can afford $800, I shouldn't have been cheap and only spend $200, I should of spent the entire $800. Then when I can afford, $2,000, I shouldn't be cheap and spend only $1,600, I should of spend the entire $2,000. Then I plateaued in my earning and stay at $2,000.Here’s the problem. You start with a $200/pair speaker and then save up $800. Do you get your $800/pair a speaker if it’s twice as good? That’s what you can afford and it’s twice as good (let’s say it’s a subwoofer or the next line up in the speaker so you get better bass).
The key is that you shouldn’t spend the $800. Keep enjoying your $200 speaker. Next year you have saved $1600. Do you get a speaker that is now 5x as good? No. That’s what you can afford, but you have the be patient.
Now you get to $2000. Is that an order of magnitude better? No. We know we are beyond the point of diminishing returns.
Now you got $3000. You find a speaker that feels like it’s an order of magnitude better but it’s 15x the cost. That’s when you buy.
If you have a Studio 530, you can get better speakers as you move up the chain but it is better to make a big leap even if there’s a KEF LS50 or Ascend Sierra LX that’s clearly better and something you can afford right now.
The key is buying what you can afford at the beginning, using the resources here whether it’s $300 or $1000 or $5000. Then stick with it until you get to something that you feel, by your own metric, is 10x better.