I'm a speaker snob.karatestu wrote: ↑Sun Dec 13, 2020 9:02 am Speaker snobs are alive and well. Just take a look at what is posted on most of the hifi forums. It makes me laugh, you aren't taken seriously unless you have bought drivers over £100 each. Snobbery winds me through the roof and one of the reasons I liked Richard so much. He doped a cheap Chinese soft dome tweeter and strengthened the face plate. Said it was almost as good as the visaton.
For my very long term DIY speaker project I paid less than £100 for the tweeters.
For the woofers I'm expecting to pay rather more than £100 per pair.
The woofers will be of a type that Richard rated. And of a type that I rate.
It remains to be seen if my DIY project will ever get finished and if it does whether it will be worth the money or not...
You could also call Steve57 a speaker snob. In that the drivers in his red and black DIY'd 4 ways cost an average of rather more than £100 per pair. His speakers are World Class.