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high end speakers are overpriced

An mdf box with drivers with an acceptable finish can cost as little as a few hundred bucks. elac debut 2 and B&w 607 and dali spektor 2 Q Acoustics 3030i are all a few hundred bucks.

If you replaced the drivers with scanspeak illuminators and added an extra piece or two of mdf for more bracing it would cost only several hundred bucks at most. So the total cost would still only be $1k for state of the art speakers. 

However you find these same drivers in bookshelf speakers costing between 5k to 10k, perhaps even more. 

As you can see, it is perfectly possible to produce state of art speakers for well under $1k. It is greed that excludes many audiophiles from enjoying the beautiful sound quality of these higher quality speakers.

In conclusion, do not buy high end audio again. Just save youre money and make your own, just like Mr Erik squire and others have done. 
kenjit
gs5556
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It’s overpriced if it doesn’t sell;
It’s underpriced if supply can’t keep up with demand;
It’s correctly priced if there are just enough buyers for what can be supplied.
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zufan
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KennyG is writing from the perspective of zero business acumen or experience beyond wearing a name tag at his workplace. 
mofojo
2,291 posts
 
@Kenjit 8:53pm"what do you want to know?"

Anything about the speakers you've never built, that's what. 
kenjit OP
1,771 posts
 
The profit you make from a product has to be fair. If you make substantially more profit than that, it is called overcharging. 

For example, imagine you have a blown tire and the mechanic asks for one billion dollars to replace it. This is what you call overcharging. 

Just because some audiophiles like you dont understand that its wrong to overcharge doesnt it make it right. 
kenjit OP
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Anything about the speakers you've never built, that's what.
They are custom tuned hand tuned and tweaked by ear. Proprietary technology. They are tuned to sound correct. Most speakers out there are not. That makes them very unique. 


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