So why cant you take a mid priced speaker costing say $500 a pair and instead of using drivers that cost $50 a piece, use state of the art drivers costing $300 a piece? that would still only be $250 more per driver which means $1000 more than the basic cost of $500. Itdoesnt come to $10,000 does it?
Clearly we’re dealing with 10 megabytes of RAM here. I explained this to you in the prior thread to this one, but you apparently just can’t wrap your head around it. A manufacturer who sells through a dealer network needs to charge about 4x (or even more) the cost of the product to cover his fixed and variable costs and still make a decent profit. Your example makes no sense. If a speaker has two $50 drivers, he’d have to charge $400 just for those, which would leave him $25 for both the crossover and the cabinet if he’s setting a retail price of $500. And if he used drivers that cost $250 more each, that would raise the price by an additional $2000 just for the drivers alone. Add a much heavier, better braced, and more attractive cabinet and a better crossover with much more expensive parts, and sure, that speaker could easily and justifiably reach $10,000.
Many of these high end speakers are nothing more than basic mdf cabinets using higher quality drivers.That’s just simply not true of high-end speakers. Any manufacturer who puts in the time, effort, and expense to design and build a high-end speaker is not just going to slap it into a simple MDF cabinet. They’re going to carefully custom design and build a cabinet that complements the other components, damps unwanted resonances, and helps achieve the overall sound he’s looking for. This is just something you’ve made up in your own mind to try to support your extremely flawed reasoning.
Even the ones that dont use mdf, are not demonstrably vastly superior to mdf. A cheap speaker uses no brace whereas a more expensive speaker uses a single brace. So for a tiny bit of mdf youre paying thousands of dollars more. Every speaker should be braced. It costs nothing to add a piece of mdf inside the cabinet during assembling.
Where is your proof of this ridiculous statement? Talk to Wilson or Rockport and they’ll be able to explain to you in great detail why they don’t use MDF and why their complex cabinets are significantly better -- and they can likely give you measurements to back up their claims. You’ve once again greatly and incorrectly oversimplified speaker cabinetry to try to support extremely flawed thinking.
You seem to think this this is a commodity business. It is NOT. You can’t build a good high-end speaker and just slap on a 25% markup and stay in business. I doubt any of this will find it into your brain as it didn’t last time, so peace out.