A perplexing article
Starts talking about "audiophiles" and then continues with "MP3" and "iPod" in the same breath.
Then, basically, it says that monopole drivers are bad and electrostats are better (well, it's kind of open knowledge, I am thinking of getting a pair of electrostats myself) but you can take the bad drivers and combine them with lots of digital tomfoolery and they will become good.
Replacing snake oil with a different flavour of snake oil?
No speaker is perfect. Cannot be, we know that. Yes, you can try to coax a better approximation of the source sound by tweaking the layout and mechanics or by finagling the signal. Neither of these methods is intrinsically better than the other.
I prefer the former, you - the latter.
The only thing that really counts is whether a particular speaker in a particular room suits a particular person.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
