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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I like extreme high end stuff…I read magazines about the latest Ferraris and McLarens and Rockports (the speakers, not the shoes…although I'm sure the shoes are fine) and Richard Milles. I own 2 sort of high performance German cars (although one is a turbo Mini) that make me think I'm James Bond-esque, and both weren't expensive. For my silly watch obsession I just bought an Oris "Diver 65" retro thing for 1/24th the cost of a vintage Rolex Submariner "Red Letters" I saw in a shop in NYC last week (at a Ralph Lauren store…insane). And the Oris is friggin' cool…My "listening" rig (as opposed to my recording rig that I also listen to, but differently) is a pile of things bought mostly used but somewhat vetted…and many components like cables were insanely inexpensive relative to new…and it all sounds astonishingly fabulous all the time, and if something doesn't seem up to snuff I replace it. Less extreme (read "cheaper") hifi gear can astonish in the proper context with careful setup, and, for me anyway, finding those "gems of tone" is more fun than opening my wallet for new stuff I simply don't think I need. 
Great post to this otherwise pathetic thread, wolf. Finally, something lucid and to the point.

Best to you wolf,
Dave
Wolf 

The good news for you is that you know what good sound sounds like. Most people don't and really have no way to know. Not the ideal scenario. Perhaps when people drop a load of money on so so gear it is the equivalent of going to Trump University.  They smarten up the hard way. 

dicockrum must be really bored to follow this " pathetic tread" .