Mb1 audio of course most diy speakers aren't as good as high end. a lot of them use budget bang for the buck drivers like Dayton etc and the cabinetsame while sophisticated could be improved.
My point is there should be a site like diyaudio.com where there are several designs that people with extensive building knowledge design 150-200+ lb cabinets with high end drivers and crossovers instead of budget designs that would actually put a dent in the scam market there is today.
I'd personally prefer to buy retail but hey I refuse to be scammed.
If enough people decided hey....I don't want to buy $25,000 speakers any more and pay a 1000% margin on cost to build...then they will drastically lower prices. There are too many speaker companies anyways there are thousands. There are only a hand full of car dealers, tv manufacturers and cell phone makers. These huge, huge margins allow 1000s of small companies to exist because they make a fortune when they sell 1 pair of speakers. People don't understand they're being scammed...if they did they wouldn't do it.
No amplifier should ever cost more than $5,000 to buy. No 10' 100% copper speaker cables should ever cost more than $150 to buy. No processor should ever cost more than $5,000 to buy. No Source player should ever cost more than $1,000 unless it's 500 disc capacity. No pair of speakers should ever cost over $10,000 unless it's something crazy like a line source or special circumstances.
If you guys keep paying the margins out of ignorance then they will keep reaping the fruits of it.
Even though the diy revolution will probably never happen I have a feeling a factory direct speaker company is going to off set the market in the next 10 years...
Someone is going to design a 150 lb well built cabinet with super high end drivers and an excellent crossover and you will get the highest end 11 channel atmos speaker set for like $12,500 and it will rival $500,000 systems but the placebo reviewers will gawk at its low price and say it's ok when in reality they'll be the top speakers on the market.
Can't wait for it.
Then another factory direct company will follow suit...and soon there will be a handfull of companies with flagship speakers rivaling speakers costing 100 times their asking prices. Super high end scan Speak, dynaudio oem and Seas designs and accuton ...all for pennies compared to the high end world.
It already started when SVS released the PB16-Ultra for $2,500...arguably the greatest commercial subwoofer on earth for $2,500.
My point is there should be a site like diyaudio.com where there are several designs that people with extensive building knowledge design 150-200+ lb cabinets with high end drivers and crossovers instead of budget designs that would actually put a dent in the scam market there is today.
I'd personally prefer to buy retail but hey I refuse to be scammed.
If enough people decided hey....I don't want to buy $25,000 speakers any more and pay a 1000% margin on cost to build...then they will drastically lower prices. There are too many speaker companies anyways there are thousands. There are only a hand full of car dealers, tv manufacturers and cell phone makers. These huge, huge margins allow 1000s of small companies to exist because they make a fortune when they sell 1 pair of speakers. People don't understand they're being scammed...if they did they wouldn't do it.
No amplifier should ever cost more than $5,000 to buy. No 10' 100% copper speaker cables should ever cost more than $150 to buy. No processor should ever cost more than $5,000 to buy. No Source player should ever cost more than $1,000 unless it's 500 disc capacity. No pair of speakers should ever cost over $10,000 unless it's something crazy like a line source or special circumstances.
If you guys keep paying the margins out of ignorance then they will keep reaping the fruits of it.
Even though the diy revolution will probably never happen I have a feeling a factory direct speaker company is going to off set the market in the next 10 years...
Someone is going to design a 150 lb well built cabinet with super high end drivers and an excellent crossover and you will get the highest end 11 channel atmos speaker set for like $12,500 and it will rival $500,000 systems but the placebo reviewers will gawk at its low price and say it's ok when in reality they'll be the top speakers on the market.
Can't wait for it.
Then another factory direct company will follow suit...and soon there will be a handfull of companies with flagship speakers rivaling speakers costing 100 times their asking prices. Super high end scan Speak, dynaudio oem and Seas designs and accuton ...all for pennies compared to the high end world.
It already started when SVS released the PB16-Ultra for $2,500...arguably the greatest commercial subwoofer on earth for $2,500.