A pair of Tannoy speakers: https://www.tannoy.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DEL https://www.tannoy.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DEL Originally produced in 1978,

A pair of Tannoy speakers: https://www.tannoy.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DEL https://www.tannoy.com/product.html?modelCode=P0DEL Originally produced in 1978, they still sound phenomenal. The link above is to the re-issue which is highly faithful to the original. At a time when it feels like home audio is regressing (wireless streaming speakers coupling a specific protocol for streaming with the amp and speaker, which is building in obsolescence into the hardware), and aesthetics have meant we've moved from larger drivers to multiple smaller drivers (to recreate bass you need to push a lot of air, and a larger drive does this better but few people want large speakers in their room and modern floorstanding speakers will instead try to push the same volume of air using multiple smaller drivers). The fact that today they still sound better than most modern speakers is testament to their design and build, and what happens when you just keep something single purposed and put the function at the top of the priorities. I recently looked at replacing my stereo, but instead only replaced the amp to benefit from the streaming capabilities. The speakers remain timeless and will probably be the only pair of speakers I need for the rest of my life (my hearing will have gone before the speakers have any issues). My feeling is that some things have been perfected: Speakers, the bicycle, telescopes, etc. And that fashion is the risk here, a perfected item only sells to a single buyer once... and so fashion is introduced to drive new sales, and we instead stray from perfection to dance around it as if it's unobtainable.