Volleyguy
Well I have seen many which use Rel, Solen etc... Those white body caps in Wilson are likely Rel, probably 5 bucks a cap on some of them, Rel cap last I know was based in California, make several OEM caps under several names, like the Audiocap Thetas, Multicap etc...
All from the same company. Maybe they are soniccaps which are also most likely made by Rel/Multicap as well. Audio research uses them too in electronics. However, that being said does not matter, the point is of course those parts are nowhere in range of what that speaker ultimately costs and most people would not know the difference.
If I personally was crazy enough to spend 50 k on a pair of speakers, then of course knowing what I do I would demand some higher cost parts which will never happen so I just don't buy them!
And I doubt wilsons 100 k per pair speaker uses Duelunds or anything near the cost of them either. These companies charge for their products based on advertising and engineering costs, not so much final material costs which can be high but not as much as you might think, labor etc... And energy used to produce the pair are the biggest costs, not material.
Much smaller and less known name companies charge based on if they use a Mundorf or whatever in the speaker. I know of some, they are good, but still not super cheap.
I can't think of the name of the company that uses Duelunds right now, I think Gryphon is one of them, but anyway the speakers of 80,000 plus a pair is about the lowest I have seen using obscene cost caps.
Regardless open a super high end speaker and some could be shocked that the crossover is worth 100 bucks that crossover is not even within range of the cost of the finished product. But Klipsch your lucky if you have 2 dollars invested in the pair of crossovers!
Well I have seen many which use Rel, Solen etc... Those white body caps in Wilson are likely Rel, probably 5 bucks a cap on some of them, Rel cap last I know was based in California, make several OEM caps under several names, like the Audiocap Thetas, Multicap etc...
All from the same company. Maybe they are soniccaps which are also most likely made by Rel/Multicap as well. Audio research uses them too in electronics. However, that being said does not matter, the point is of course those parts are nowhere in range of what that speaker ultimately costs and most people would not know the difference.
If I personally was crazy enough to spend 50 k on a pair of speakers, then of course knowing what I do I would demand some higher cost parts which will never happen so I just don't buy them!
And I doubt wilsons 100 k per pair speaker uses Duelunds or anything near the cost of them either. These companies charge for their products based on advertising and engineering costs, not so much final material costs which can be high but not as much as you might think, labor etc... And energy used to produce the pair are the biggest costs, not material.
Much smaller and less known name companies charge based on if they use a Mundorf or whatever in the speaker. I know of some, they are good, but still not super cheap.
I can't think of the name of the company that uses Duelunds right now, I think Gryphon is one of them, but anyway the speakers of 80,000 plus a pair is about the lowest I have seen using obscene cost caps.
Regardless open a super high end speaker and some could be shocked that the crossover is worth 100 bucks that crossover is not even within range of the cost of the finished product. But Klipsch your lucky if you have 2 dollars invested in the pair of crossovers!