All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?!

I know Alon personally and I have an engineering R&D background. We have worked on some techniques for his speakers and I can tell you this. The materials he is using are very expensive and the techniques cost a lot to implement. I prototyped a honeycomb stressed skin design 20 years ago and it was like listening to an electrostatic. 

@jkf011 has it right. A $22k speaker represents good value?

I paid ~2300 for a pair of Harbeth 30.1, and while I am quite sure that there are better, more expensive speakers, the returns diminish so sharply above a certain point, that I would never consider paying anything like 10x the cost.

The materials he is using are very expensive and the techniques cost a lot to implement.

But you could just use concrete which isnt expensive so its still overpriced

Discussants, may I ask if anyone has compared the Magico's, the Rockport Avior 11's, the B&W 802d3's, and Revel studio 11 in particular consideration of features contributing to the cost of each.  Specifically:  1. Do the Magico's and Rockports employ costlier drivers and crossovers, and if so does this make a sonic difference ?  2.  Does the 802d3's' enclosure technology....tubed tweeter, 'turbine head' midrange, semi-ovate base enclosure....allow cabinet inert-ness and other advantage equivalent to or superior to that inherent in the Magico aluminum design or the ultra-thick MDF, backward-raked Rockport design ?  3. Does the technological prowess and volume-related production efficiency putatively attributed to B&W and Revel translate into either the B&W 802d3 or Revel 'Studio 11' offering sonic quality equivalent to the just-cited Magico and Rockport models ?
Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

" But you could just use concrete which isnt expensive so its still overpriced" 

Concrete is actually a lousy material from a time domain perspective. The goal of lightweight critically damped materials is clean rapid decay with low coloration. There are some implementations of using synthetic casting materials that can be cast with reinforcements to gain strength without excessive mass but the implementation of those and even concrete for that matter is a very expensive process. high precision moulds and formers are expensive to manufacture and many have only a few useable mold / de-mold cycles before they break down.