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Why hasn’t B&W ever entered the ultra hi-end for speakers?

Being one of the biggest speaker manufacturers in the world and arguably some of best sounding, they have never gone past their 800 series and produced anything beyond that point. Don’t get me wrong, $30k ( 800 D3 ) is expensive and most people wouldn’t be able to afford to pay that much for a pr of speakers even if they wanted to, but in today’s market that really isn’t considered ultra hi-end considering some speakers now days cost close to a million and many in the $50-200k range. You would think with the knowledge they have and for the years they have been around they would go the distance and build 
beyond the 800 series? 
hiendmmoe
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1971gto455ho
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James Kirk---USS Enterprise designed that ugly mess, Producers were outraged and canceled the series.
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pjr801
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James Kirk---USS Enterprise designed that ugly mess, Producers were outraged and canceled the series
I always thought Ridley kicked its arse
kenjit
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B&W are a high end speaker company. They do very expensive speakers. Their flagship is the nautilus which is $60k a pair excluding the 8 monoblock amps required to make them work. 

There are more expensive speakers but they are not very good. Price is not an indicator of quality. 

Kef LS50 cost under one thousand dollars and are supposedly the best small speakers in the world. 

The price can be set as high as the speaker company likes. 

You should focus on QUALITY not price. 
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kairosman
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They sell more quality loudspeakers than almost anyone else as is, they just sold a pair of 804 D3s to me, and I didn't give a damn that they don't have a million dollar flagship. 
chorus
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