davedotco said:
Anyway, it doesnt really matter, the drive units in budget hi-fi speakers are built to the standards required to do the job, no more, no less. You probably could arrange situations that would see the speakers fail when perhaps they should not, but since they are virtually never going to be used in such a way, this really is not going to happen.
Why do you want to generalize? Speakers are all different. Example: MA BX2 are a lotal different from cheap Q Acoustics 2020i. The point is not to arrange situations where they fail or they doesn't, the point is any speaker in this world shouldn't NEVER FAIL when they are used within specification.
And this is NOT the case of Q Acoustcs 2020i, becouse they failed in my experience within specifications, and other hardware (amp, other speakers, various component) didn't.
And they were totally used within specification, remember this. So a good brand should be very, very carefull IN ANY situation it will NOT fail within specification.
And also, you generalize about hardware, then thick cartoon 2020i woofers are a lot different from solid MA BX2 woofers even if price specs is not that different.
So, even your siperficial and opinionated posts, have little common sense and this is also the reason becouse seller exhange me failing, cheap 2020i under warrantly, and Q Acoustics sent him replacements under warrantly: becouse they had to accept the fact those speakers were completely used under specification, and they probably knows how they woofer are made.
Now, please, don't tell every speaker is the same, becouse in my experience and in my environment the only component to fail were Q Acoustics 2020i.
For me the case is closed: I'm happy with my new speakers, I didn't had to remit money, and now I have decent bookshelf speakers for my need and I learned to always trust my ears - like I always did - and not genorous 5 stars by magazines.
I learned something really interesting in this forum and for those posts I say thank you to the people active in this thread, surely those posts wasn't yours.