Can a guy working out of his garage buy a kit from madisound or the like and compete with companies that have unlimited resources? I build houses, but wouldn't be able to compete with pulte/dell webb. The guy in the garage is paying more for the raw material than the big guy pays for the complete custom cabinet coming from china's finest
Lets go with the standard markup, 50% so I'll use the salon 2 or persona 7f for their exotic cabinets and drivers. The list of $22k means the dealer pays $11k and if revel maintains the margin after R&D the pair cost $5500, or the persona at $25k cost dealers $12,5 so paradigm if they have the same margin build the pair for $6200 bucks. How is the guy working out of his garage going to offer that value? He would go broke creating the first pair of cabinets! sure put some sonotube in a square box and cut holes for the drivers ala HSU research. now tune the xover for the exotic custom drivers. Sorry, but in my mind I see a guy with a typewriter trying to keep up with a printing press.
Lets go with the standard markup, 50% so I'll use the salon 2 or persona 7f for their exotic cabinets and drivers. The list of $22k means the dealer pays $11k and if revel maintains the margin after R&D the pair cost $5500, or the persona at $25k cost dealers $12,5 so paradigm if they have the same margin build the pair for $6200 bucks. How is the guy working out of his garage going to offer that value? He would go broke creating the first pair of cabinets! sure put some sonotube in a square box and cut holes for the drivers ala HSU research. now tune the xover for the exotic custom drivers. Sorry, but in my mind I see a guy with a typewriter trying to keep up with a printing press.