[Phil Allison[_4_]]

John Williamson wrote:

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High end people don't want secure and reliable, they want options for
tweaking

I suspect a lot of them also want something they can see the workings of.

Pro audio people just want something they can plug in and will work well
enough for the purpose. Speakons and XLR using decent quality cable are
good at that, and it's easy to swap stuff round when you are out on
location or when a perforner moves round a studio.

Audiophiles don't trust what they can't see and fiddle with.


** The real reason is much simpler:

Pro audio amplifiers were once always fitted with 4mmm speaker terminals and 1/4 inch jacks plus XLR inputs. Then Speakons came along and were heavily marketed in that sphere - so folk started fitted them to speaker boxes in lieu of XLRs. Having 4 conductor links was much appreciated. Amp racks were often fitted up too.

Took a couple of decades, but now all such amps have Speakons fitted at the factory and also speaker boxes as is expected by buyers and installers.

No such thing applies to domestic hi-fi - few owners would even know what a Speakon connector was or looked like so no change is foreseen by anyone.


...... Phil