Wilson Audio Specialties Chronosonic XVX loudspeaker!! only $300,000.oo

When I listened to the very nice Alexx V’s, I was quite aware that each speaker cost $65K. Looking at the speaker, and it is nice, there is simply no way that $65K each can be attributed to this product. When one looks at what $65K will buy you, nevermind the asking price of $130K, then one can see how truly absurd this pricing is, IMHO ( and we are not even talking the Chronosonic pricing here, which is even more out there). While the argument can be made that this is easily affordable for a lot of folks, who also apparently are audiophiles, I think that is somewhat irrelevant. More important is the fact that there is really no way to justify this number, at least in my realm of experience, to this product...kind of like asking $20K for the desk top computer I am typing this on...just doesn’t really compute, pun intended.!!

Now, I have no idea what kind of computer you are using, or what it’s main purpose is, but I am going to guess its a home type computer?

Most likely not the kind of high performance machine required to do computer animation or any other high math demanding application.

A fully pimped out Mac Pro retails for 67K CDN...

So yeah, we can pick up speakers that will indeed produce sound for very few $$$’s, but at what level? Much like we can get computers for comparatively few $$$’s.

Who cares what someone is selling or someone else is buying? Who cares what someone is charging or what someone is paying?

None, I repeat none, of what we put in our systems is needed. None of it.

Everything we have in our home systems is in the realm of want. Need, is not a part of it.

Does anyone need 300K speakers? No, but then no one needs a $50 speaker to listen to music either. They are both the same in that they are rooted in wants. We want to listen to music.

And yeah, I know, there’s the argument coming my way that we need art in our lives. As an artist, I would like to think we do, but in reality we don’t need art to survive.

Do these "things" improve the quality of our lives? Sure.

Being an audiophile is a want, not a need.

So, there is no difference between wanting a $50.00 pair of Minimus 7’s vs wanting a pair of 300K Wilsons other than the means of being able to facilitate that want...

I think they would be quite interesting to hear, based on the past two good showings of Maxx 3 and Lamm, and Alexx with D’Agostino.
Owners certainly won't care what you think. :)

+10 @perkri. 
It's absurd at how many justify what they have spent on their system and yet find these speakers, or any other high priced audio item overpriced.   If they can afford it, kudos to them. When visitors see my modest system,  most think I'm crazy for investing/ spending that much on music playback. Most of them think those funds would have been better spent/ invested elsewhere.   Enjoy what you have and let others enjoy what they have and can afford. 

Respectfully, 
Jose

It’s also my prerogative to opine that $300K is ridiculous for these uber ugly monstrosities.

Getting your feelings hurt over it is pretty juvenile. Wouldn’t the world just be a whole lot better if everyone simply loved everything? And believed anything anyone told them? Happy happy, happy....blindly happy.