For many years I got frustrated in my sonic journey because it felt like I was moving in circles. In my quest for greater dynamics and realism, I would move from speaker model to speaker model and always wound up back in the same place. Forced to add a subwoofer to augment what I had.
This was years ago before I came to the understanding that all full-range systems require subwoofers—either internally or externally. Back then, I had wanted a single speaker system that kicked ass on all fronts: transparency, dynamics, depth, width, realism, full range.
Out of those years of effort came an interesting observation. Though it felt like I was endlessly circling back to the same place I started—a desire for a single-speaker full range experience—what I began to notice is that at the end of each cycle I had made overall progress.
I was not in a circular pattern, but rather a spiral, constantly moving up the improvement ladder.
With every attempt and failure, we grow and learn so that the next round is better than where we started.
