Why pay so much for super high end?


Most speakers costing $50,000+ use Seas, Scan Speak or Accuton.

In DIY forums most speakers designed use bargain drivers and usually are only 2.0 designs not bookshelf or center speakers to complete a surround system.

I’d love to have a Scan Speak 11 speaker system for atmos with 3 way bookshelves, center and floorstanders.

Why aren’t the designs out there and why are you guys pissing away all your money.

Personally I won’t get an upgrade from my speakers unless it’s of this caliber and neither can I afford nor want to donate money to these thieves.

A 3rd party 11 speaker atmos scan Speak system would be nice but I’m not spending $250,000.

Why on earth aren’t there designs out there for this and why do you all piss away your money?

I don’t get why hi fi isn’t all DIY even honest factory direct companies mark up 300%.

Unless you pull in $1+ million a year and don’t have any time I don’t get it.

Are you guys lazy?

Someone easily could design a great crossover and cabinets for everyone and the days of paying over $3,500 for a pair of loud speakers if you got some time or know a friend who could build cabinets would be over. I know of people who could design cabinets that rival $100,000 speakers and cost less than 1% than that.  Someone with some experience could easily design a diamond, beryllium and soft dome and various versions for various tastes.

I don’t get it. Speakers are so simple.  Crossovers cabinets and drivers.

You guys just throw your money away I don’t understand it why?


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Long thread. I purchase based on if it will make x amount of dollar to x amount of sound difference.  Will I spend 100k? No it won't make a 100k difference in sound. I've been into this for awhile starting with Harmon karden to adcom to rotel and finally classe. I purchased the classe cp-800 and the c d200 digital amp for 5800 together. Did it make a 4300 dollar difference parting with my rotel rc-1570 and rb-800 at roughly 1500 (new processor purchase, picked up amp used).. the answer is absolutely. 
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Do you think that in a blind test most people would recognize a $10,000 difference in speakers over $15,000. Personally I don't think so.
This whole site/thread is full troll bashing trolls, the lot of you spend way too much time on these forums just looking for a chance to either shred someone or pat each others libido to feel good about yourselves. 
more like patting each others big phat speaker cables to feel good about themselves...

but I am sure that people would be able to distinguish different speakers over $15,000 in a blind test - it's less clear that one is better or would be preferred