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.
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.