From my own point of view, there are two main areas of interest involving price.
- As a practical matter when choosing what to audition according to one's spending budget, it would of course be useful to search and sort on a price range, and seeing the speakers in that range ranked by performance factors (and of course being able to easily click through to see the detailed measurements from the full test/review thread).
- The other one would be out of interest in the discussions of price/quality correlations and whether there is any general trend or not. It's not necessarily helpful in purchasing decisions for many people. However, if it is shown that particular brands typically have very good performance and generally reasonable prices, then some might choose that brand over another that is all over the map regarding price and performance. Some of us look for brands that offer consistent performance and consistently good value across their product lines when making our purchasing decisions.
So some kind of ranking that attempts to combine price and performance can be useful or interesting for discussions, but it's not as directly practical/useful compared to simply being able to sort lists on the raw price itself (for me anyway, YMMV of course!).
I'm not sure how much agreement you could get among people as far as
weighting in creating a scoring mechanism for "value." If something is a mediocre performer by all the measurements (getting an average
performance score), but costs $20k, it scores a ZERO for me on
value. Obviously other people have entirely different standards. And of course, something could get a ZERO on value but still be worthwhile from an aesthetic point of view. Over certain price points, there is no excuse for less than stellar performance for me personally. And obviously everyone is free to use or ignore whatever scoring system is put in place. As long as it's relatively easy to find and sort products by type, brand, and price in addition to whatever scores are generated, I think functionality of the system/site will be pretty well covered.
My thanks to
@pozz and
@MZKM and anyone else who is helping to make all these tests easy to find and use with their indexing work, and of course to
@amirm for the forum and the tests themselves!
(Edited to add: my apologies to
@pozz , I missed your post requesting that we put the price discussions on hold for now.)