line seperating mid range and high end?

[melvin walker]

An era that has long since passed. While they represented the pinnacle of performance then, they simply do not measure up (literally or figuratively) to today's best.

Bozak Concert Grands

rw

You are correct, A steinway Lyngdorf is by far one of the finest speaker systems produced . it only cost slightly over $ 150,000 !
It would be interesting to A-B that speaker agianst a pair of tri-amp Concert Grands.
Or maybe a pair of Tannoy Churchill's.

We must remember that speakers work with physics , a large pipe organ can produce clear bass that the finest speaker system can only dream of.
Electronics or different. Digital which produces square waves has a very difficult time converting to analog . We listen in analog. A steinway piano's note is analog.
That effects detail not dynamics , the one advantage digital sound has over analog is dynamics.

Again you are correct about a different era passed . But I would respond with the music of Gershwin , Kern , Rogers and Hart , Astaire , Kelly , Sinatra , Day , Miles , Miller , Ella, Tracy , Olivier ,Davis , Bergman etc., etc, An era long past , but what do we have to compare with them today ?
Willie Nelson ? , The Beatles ? , Elvis ?, Michael Jackson ?
Times have changed.