Why pay so much?

The Emotiva A-500 does exist at $530.


https://emotiva.com/products/a-500

• Power Output (two channels driven):
  110 watts RMS per channel; 20 Hz – 20 kHz; THD < 0.1%; into 8 Ohms.
  190 watts RMS per channel; 1 kHz; THD < 1%; into 4 Ohms.

• Power Output (all channels driven):
  80 watts RMS per channel; 20 Hz – 20 kHz; THD < 0.1%; into 8 Ohms.

And it doesn't get much press.

If they had more power, it'd take away from their
XPA Generation 3 $1,700 amplifier
https://emotiva.com/products/xpa-5-gen3

Power Output:
300 watts RMS/channel; 20 Hz – 20 kHz; THD<0.1%; 8 Ohms; one channel driven.
550 watts RMS/channel; 20 Hz – 20 kHz; THD<0.2%; 4 Ohms; one channel driven.
300 watts RMS/channel; THD<0.1%; 8 Ohms; two channels driven.
490 watts RMS/channel; THD<0.1%; 4 Ohms; two channels driven.
250 watts RMS/channel; THD<0.1%; 8 Ohms; ALL FIVE channels driven.

More of this should be available everywhere.

The XPA Gen 3 could be $750, and they'd make volume, but watch, the amplifier industry laid down rules, in their price colluding of the big guys.

I do own a car. A 95,000 mile 2006 ford Taurus. Lol. It gets me around!
The best deal and the best bang for the buck are the same terminology, lol, so both?

I’m just saying, the final product on all audio and non- audio wiring, speakers, amplifiers, processors and receivers would be the same thing.

Less margins in this case would still be same product.

Expensive would be cheaper prices if no one would pay these exorbitant prices, but the same product, if people weren’t willing to pay the big bucks of the companies taking 100,000%+ margins on wiring, and the other stuff.
It wouldn’t degrade the quality.
With less fish in the sea, with 4 or 5-10 wiring companies, there volume would go up instead of being spread around by like 1,000+ companies, so the same buyers to fewer companies, and the $25,000-$50,000-$250,000 people would buy the $300 AudioQuest Dragon Zero and Bass, so there would be more volume to deal with less margins. They wouldn’t be going out of business any time soon.

People always want to feel quality, irregardless if it’s $300. Whether that’s not much money to some people, or a lot.  If it's exotic high end Quality at $300? Who cares about the price? As long as it’s super high quality.

Also, I don’t think you guys are idiots. Just careless with your money is all in the audio cult, lol.

Well, as much as I actually appreciate Taurus, it is far from the best deal or best bang for the buck for me. It is lacking a few things and has a few too many. I am not making it up, it is really like that. It ends up being similar situation with speakers, cables, etc. By the way, I wonder what a margin on that car was when new. It was surely less than 50000% but it also sold in much higher numbers than any of the speakers ever will. If you build the best-selling car, the game is different than if you build a very rare one. Margins are higher on exotics. Kind of like on $250 000 speakers.

"With less fish in the sea, with 4 or 5-10 wiring companies, there volume would go up instead of being spread around..."

Check the price of Albuterol inhalers. Unless something changed recently, there is only three manufacturers in the U.S.A. There used to be a few more. It used to cost $15 or so.

Okay. Hrm. Now I feel like we’re going around and around in circles.
I do appreciate the fun debate, and I’m declaring my self the winner.
Lol.
Lower Margins = more volume and still profitable enough to exist
Exotic = cheaper, since lower margins and still profitable since higher volume
Less companies like leas fish in the seas and more to feed on little minnows, more volume, and appropriate prices.

It’s like the sleep number scam.
A $1,500 C2 = same air base as all the mattresses and 2" of plastic like poly foam

A $5,700 iLE uses 6" of poly foam with the same air base.


3rd party foams.
Less than a $50 cost to produce difference.

Polyurethane Foam = the cheapest foam to manufacture if I’m not mistaken?

Buy a 3" radium organic talalay latex topper for $400 from sleepez.fom
Tempurpedic 3" topper for $300 from tempurpedic.com
And a 6" cotton zippered mattress case for $200
$2,500 8" c2 now 14" now = better than the 6 inches or 12" of cheap polyurethane foam for $5,700.

And not to mention, air chambers are a scam. Unless the density or ILD (impression load deflection - The amount of weight or pressure required to compress the mattress to that extent of 25% or 1 inch) or density changes, it’s the same thing. It’s like a pool tube with cheap poly foam that you could build for like $200. Lol.

Use leggat and platt individual pocketed coils. All the $5,000 mattresses use those. sell those and the mattress cases are at mattresses.net or it’s called the Arizona Mattress store.

I’ve posted, too much in depth knowledge on industry stuff.

I’ll fear for my life if I post more.

Please stop egging me on?

Lol,
Thanks,
- Andy