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In Reply to: If designed well, can wide speakers image just as well as narrow ones? posted by mesh on September 22, 2001 at 18:42:06:
Perhaps it has to do with the price... I've been told that a typical speaker contains 20% of it's retail price in materials.. yup a $2000 set has $200 worth of electronics and lumber in it. Rest is overhead, marketing and middlemen costs. This is a common ratio, not soley restricted to Audio.
It's apparently much easier and cheaper to build a decently imagining 'narrow' speaker, than a larger one... judging by what's on the market.
A decent larger system involves significantly costlier drivers and x overs, a more robust and more carefully designed enclosure, as well as the engineering to make it all come together, but for your extra $$ you do get a larger richer soundstage and greatly increased low end to boot (usually ;-) No real surpise is there?
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