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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
kenjit OP
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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
1,771 posts
 
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. 


ebm
9,311 posts
 
So stick with junk which i am sure you own .I am sure Eric speakers are mediocre as well.So you can pretend what you have sounds good and goes well with your mediocre electronics. 
gs5556
1,240 posts
 
Wrong analogy. It is against the law for people to be taken advantage of in situations where their well being is held hostage. However, that mechanic can charge a billion dollars for a tire change as long as he posts it to the public at all times. Then obviously he will go hungry as no one would do business with him.

Speakers are not like electricity, medical care or other monopolies. They offer a product at an asking price. If you want the speakers more than the money in your checking account, then there is a sale. If you want the money more, then you move on.
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millercarbon
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Enough! Ship your best speakers here kenjit. Keith and Deborah can drive down and hear them. Mike and the half a dozen from Portland can come up and have a listen. Heck even Mike Lavigne can join us. Why not, you've been dissing everything under the sun, we're all eager as can be to finally hear what its all about. I'll write the whole thing up. And just so we both have some skin in the game, if even ONE of them prefers your speakers to mine or Mike's then I will pay shipping costs both ways.  

Put up or shut up, as the saying goes. 
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