Rather than hijack another thread, I'll ask the question separately - prompted by this, which echoes something I'd been thinking about:
My speakers are Monitor Audio GR20s, WHF five-star products from 2003 when I bought them. They may well be the weakest link now, and I have wondered what it'll take to get a significant improvement - they still sound fantastic to me. They cost £1,500 in 2003, and obviously prices increase due to inflation - which affects materials, company operational costs, wages etc etc. But also speakers should have improved over that period.
These two things pull in opposite directions, inflation meaning you have to spend more to get the same, development meaning the opposite. So, what do you think I'd need to be looking at to get a significantly better all-rounder (I listen to a wide variety of genres, so all-round talent is non-negotiable)? Must be floostanders as the room is pretty much 7m sq.
You can buy the best speakers you like but if your amp cannot drive them sufficiently well you're wasting your money.
Realistically speaker development has come on in leaps and bounds and, more importantly their prices have dropped, so you should spend more on the amplifier than the speakers for an equivalent package that, years ago, might have seen the opposite.
My speakers are Monitor Audio GR20s, WHF five-star products from 2003 when I bought them. They may well be the weakest link now, and I have wondered what it'll take to get a significant improvement - they still sound fantastic to me. They cost £1,500 in 2003, and obviously prices increase due to inflation - which affects materials, company operational costs, wages etc etc. But also speakers should have improved over that period.
These two things pull in opposite directions, inflation meaning you have to spend more to get the same, development meaning the opposite. So, what do you think I'd need to be looking at to get a significantly better all-rounder (I listen to a wide variety of genres, so all-round talent is non-negotiable)? Must be floostanders as the room is pretty much 7m sq.