Rapid-fire breakdown of home audio brands: product quality vs brand imagefrom @orenmeetsworld

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Are you buying the products or are you buying the brand? Home audio. Sonos, you're buying the dream that they fix their product one day. Good tech, good ideas. I've spent years where it works 50% of the time. The Marshall Acton or Stan Moore, you are buying the rank. Great facade, average fidelity. Fidelity. Well, I am rather partial to the ID. This is rank and roll cosplay for your bookshelf. It is for the Machine Gun Kelly stands. Bang and Allison, you're buying the product and the brand. I used to live with a B and O sales rep, and our house sounded crispy, but these are expensive while sculptural and sonically serious. Third speaker, a third furniture piece, a third flex. Bose buying the rank. Comfortable, overpriced, sounds fine. The designs try, but it inspired nothing. The Microsoft tier of home audio. The Naim Musso are buying the product. Heavy layered, excellent engineering. Sounds as good as it looks, but the rule is you have to own a much worse speaker system first no you could appreciate it. Tier Devialet Phantom, you are buying the rank. Looks like a jet engine and blast like one. Deep best, wild price, was still a party trick more than a listening tool. Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin, you are buying the brand, but man is this close. I own this in my best and loved it. Elegant balanced and surprisingly punchy, but if you try and really turn it up it falls short. When they say nuclear football, this is what I picture. Otis speakers, you are buying the product. Anyone that uses lutherie in their marketing has my approval. Worse, you are buying the products. Pro Modern design, real wood cabinets, great analog sound. Tell me why I'm brutally wrong in the comments, but if you're a soundbar type, this is a discussion for the adults, and you're not welcome.