"I recently heard a small 2-way stand mount speaker at a show. The sound was excellent. The product was priced at $50,000 or thereabouts, per pair. Allowing for distribution and marketing leaves about $25,000. Add management and cost of capital, that leaves maybe $12,500 per pair for parts and assembly and engineering. Say the cost of parts was $5000 and assembly was $2500. Could engineering realistically cost $5,000 per pair? "
$25,000 for marketing and distribution of every pair of speakers? What do they do? Fly them to your house on a private jet? Seems to me that that cost would be amortized over whatever number of units were manufactured. Same with the rest of his justifications.