Why pay so much?

Okay, lol, I feel like your being funny and egging me on now, lol.

In the purest intentions, $30,000 speaker wire for $300, with 1,000% margins, $100,000 speakers for $4,000 with 1,000% margins, and processors and amplifiers for no more than $1,000 for 1,000+% margins would be not only good for the market with the volume over high margins low sales, would not only still be very profitable for 7 or 8 companies (we don’t need more - it’s either the best, or it isn’t), but high end audio would be available to the $50,000 a year salesman who works 50+ hours a week, and who would love to listen to all the notes of the music, the "way music is supposed to be heard" in terms of notes, etc.

And if you want to just "buy expensive" components, then spend the money you’d save on buying hi fi components at a 99% reduction to buying for other people who would like it. I’m sure the expensive thrill would be more thrilling this way.

It’s making the hobby not fair by being cavalier and saying "I want expensive". Everyone else is screwed by willing to pay these components weight in literally gold.

It’ll still look and feel and sound expensive, I assure you! With out all the light wallet, and the wife getting mad at you!

Nothing would change!

And buying for the sake of expensive?

Take the money you’d save by buying the less expensive gear which would be the same, and invest it in the stock market like Belden, lol, or Harmon Kardon.

Buying something for the sake of saying I bought something expensive is ridiculous.

These companies will still exist! You don’t need to pay these high prices! These items will still be there!

They don’t need these 100,000% margins to exist!

- Andy

Glupson - you don’t have to build these speakers yourselves.

I’m saying they are making 10,000%+ margins on speaker sales.

If people wouldn’t pay it, they’d drop to 500%. And at that price, nothing would cost more than $5,000 from any companies.

Put simply, a speaker company should exist that sells factory direct Scan- Speak, Accuton, Seas, Audio Technology and Dayton speakers.

They could make 300% margins, and still make tons and tons and tons of money.

Those are the main speaker driver companies used in $10,000+ speakers.

SVSound used a Scan Speak d3004 in a cheap speaker, and I’m assuming the speaker industry threatened them in to not doing it, because within a month or 2 it was withdrawn, and a cheaper alternative was put out.

The d3004-6600 is widely considered one of the greatest tweeters ever invented or conceived.

They got "backlash" from it, and wow, what a surprise, they changed it.

"...high end audio would be available to the $50,000 a year salesman who works 50+ hours a week, and who would love to listen to all the notes of the music, the "way music is supposed to be heard" in terms of notes, etc."

That would depend on his other expenses and disposable income, not on his absolute income.

At the same time, there are many audio reproduction items in the lower price ranges and they still sound great. Most of them are.

$70 000 speaker cables are rare as are $250 000 speakers. Quite good under-$1000 amplifiers exist together with decent $1500 speakers. I have no idea if that particular salesman would find them "too expensive" or "just right".

"If people wouldn’t pay it, they’d drop to 500%."

Every time I tried not to pay for something they did not lower the price. They simply did not give me what I wanted.

Sub speakers that are $1,000 should cost like $250-300 and get 1,000%+ margins.
The same goes for other "cheaper" alternatives of processors and amplifiers.
If a Dayton Audio (Parts Express brand) had their affordable $30-50 drivers used in speakers from a 300% margin speaker company, it’d rock the socks off anything over $1,500 that exists at like $300-$350 for a 3 way speaker. Again, speaking in bulk 50% wholesale large mass driver and crossover components and building materials.
You can get 5 channel car audio amplifiers that puts out like 1,000 watts RMS for $200 on wholesale sights.
I don’t see why they can’t have $300-400 versions of these on the home theater market.