Last few post about size/scale... This speaks to my point about dbs earilier... For speakers to play large, the volume setting will often differ at which point the speaker drivers are well intergrated in output of each instruments strength with the bass sounding "right" and not over accented. UNTIL an upper level of price and matched amplification is afforded. Yes, I do want to hear concert levels or only slightly less, and imo, this is what costs big bucks. Although, as I say, my Cornwalls do just this for me however still with imperfection compared to the tone quality's of my hP set up. Of course, both are completely different types of presentations as has been said, obviously. Yet as different as they both are They're both excellent, within their limitations and excel at their strengths.
Again, choice of type of music played also has a large roll to play, yes even especially so with speaker choices/systems needing matching of components to achieve proper presentation (Big/loud), with proper scale of individual instruments, with subtle details preserved and their tone . Ergo, my statement of a much larger cost difference I mentioned eariler. However, if someone wants to say a $2000 speaker system beats anything they have heard from phones, I have to respect that opinion, but mostly from experience I have to disagree, but of course their presentations both are very different, and I do love both, within what I hear as their limitations, both being flawed. UNTIL a much greater amount (5X), is spent on a speaker system, as I said.
