Graphene in fuses and cost

A reasonable educated guess would be that it costs SR $37.50 to make a blue fuse. They then sell that fuse to a retailer for $75. Gross profit would be $37.50. Before they start making any net profit, they need to sell enough to recover whatever amount they spent on R & D to develop it. After that, they need to cover ongoing business overhead, so net profit on each fuse will be something less than $37.50. I’m thinking $15-20? How many can they sell? IF they can sell 10,000, they might make $200,000.

By SR’s own admission, the number is more likely to be nearer to $25, in their indicated 6:1 ratio. There is a cable bible of a sort issued by TAS, IIRC. In it synergistic states this ratio for a given company viability in the cable market.

As a manufacturer, I say that’s cutting it close. The dealer get the lion’s share but does the least work/effort these days. Many retailers are doing what they can to not stock anything and push the stocking of product on distributors and manufacturers. This is the end result of the manipulated financial crunch(es) and slow pump/drip elimination of the western middle class.

Thus dealers are many times killing their own reason for existing, in the eyes of the manufacturers and in some ways...distributors. Distributors are supposed to be a stock and distribution buffer for a manufacturer. If not... then they are a waste of time for a manufacturer.

To top it off, the manufacturer carries the entire weight of the sale ad infinum... and definitely has the smallest part of the pie.

The economic squeeze due to the past 20 internet years is only part of what is squeezing the previously functional model dry, so that many manufacturers are going it alone (direct to dealer) and/or going direct (direct to customer).

Prices are all over the place as the model is still not stabilized or finalized in it’s changes.

My thoughts are educated in having dealt with these subjects at the personal manufacturing (direct to customer) level and up into the ~$10m a year systems of distribution and dealership concerns, over the past 20 years. (started in sales and working with the public at age 9--that’s 44 years experience now) (I’ve got no final answer, there is none...but I’ve got a decent window view)

The op is saying something about an ’over $100 profit for somebody’. No such beast exists. No one is sending their kids to universities on the backs of this one. The market is too small to have the product throughput to do much more than help everyone involved earn a living. Somewhere near zero of the people involved are buying yachts or expensive cars.

Importantly, People make and sell this sort of stuff as they like and love music, the money is secondary for a huge number of the manufacturers in the world of audio. It’s not the best area of choice regarding financial futures. It’s a terrible choice, actually.

Who cares what the math is? The real advantage of such a product as the Blue Fuse is that it can’t be duplicated and (probably) a lot of folks want one. So, you’re kind of compelled to buy it for whatever price they’re asking. Infuriating, ain’t it? 😩

Is that a challenge I hear? Do I hear an invitation to the competition dance? :)

But no, I think that Geoff might be yanking chains, just a bit, or like Taras notes when he looks at your posts and says ’Geoff is just lobbing bombs over the fence, probably for the fun of it’.

When I was a kid, one of my neighbors, a few blocks away, one of those kids was caught shooting a dog in the butt with a pellet gun. the dog would bark into the night, freaking out. the owner would come out and scold the dog, and then go back inside. Nervous dog, tied to a chain..looking around in the dark....the kid would shoot the dog in the butt again. Then the dog owner, more angry than before, would come outside and get physical, scolding the dog, then go back inside. The kid would shoot the poor confused and lost dog in the butt again...rinse, repeat.

Your pellet gun use on the forum recalcitrant, is exemplary. Without peer. :p

One thing I would like you see from Synergistic .The Tesla coil was developed by the great genius of Nicola Tesla which by the way wanted electricity affordable to all at low monies, and universally . The FBI stole all his potential future products and blackballed by the rich including Edison which stole intellectual properties. 
My point  is  Synergistic makes manyclaims or boasts of Millions of D.C. Volts 
and benifits .not one thing to back this up . Let's see several independent tests 
and the % of improvement s.   sonicly myself and other have found even the black fusesnot always better. I have found in my preamp theHifi tuning supreme 
were better balanced ,the black Synergistic darker. In my amp the Synergistic were a bit better. After 150 hours. Not everything is etched in stone.  I may buy a few of these fuses but not until I find a dealer who will give at least 15% off 2 or more fuses.  There are always dealers willing to do business. In this day and age 
only  a desperate buyer would pay full retail  for Anything.