How many brands use own drivers?

Bose is a fabulous example of an in-house driver as well as incredibly tight alignment with marketting and consumers.

They achieve the magical goal of being extremely inexpensive to produce while giving consumers enough value to merit ridiculous prices for a kitchen radio.

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Bose ... They achieve the magical goal of being extremely inexpensive to produce while giving consumers enough value to merit ridiculous prices for a kitchen radio.

That doesn't make sense. If the product gives consumers "enough value," then the price can't be "ridiculous."

Vandersteen carbon drivers. Thiel made their own drivers. TAD and Vivid probably do.

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