Large manufacturers often don’t have an industries best people. The best people don’t like bureaucracy. There is no need for hand made either. As well using contract MFG you often access better cost supply chains. Have you seen how much human touching is involved in high end B&W speaker MFG. With speakers you have independent driver companies so you may have as much tech access as anyone else. The worlds best speaker testing system is $100K only. The largest barriers are mainly marketing. Large volume will always drive costs down, but volume requires a beast on the sales and support end. Then we have that volume usually appeals to glitz not necessarily accuracy.
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@theaudioamp in the entire history of audio, no one spent more money on research than Matsushitsu (they maintained 3 institutes and hundreds of engineers, conductors, masters) ... this market is monstrously overheated - my advice to you is to quit it))) It is unlikely that you will be able to create a Stradivari violin for the price of a sandwich ... there are a lot of people who want it (and these are smart guys) |
I love Google experts. So much fun. A Kippel system at 100K does what far more expensive systems used to do, but it does it far better. A big turntable can increase the price. No longer a need for multimillion dollar anechoic chambers any more. All an large acoustic camera gives you is speed. Much of the cost is the anechoic chamber they are often in. You can use smaller ones for wavefront studies There was a time when Dolby did not exist. No Bose. Heck not even Magico. Fortunately they didn’t go in with loser attitude. Dolby of late has created far more fundamental IP around audio than Matsushita has. Heard of Sonos? They could gave said we are too small and gave up. They didn’t and know are one of the largest sellers of audio products in the world You seemed to completely lacked the comprehension of what I said about leveraging others expertise, MFG, and cost structures. There is still much room for innovation. Look at Kii or Dutch and Dutch. How about the Purifi woofer from a small company with some of the lowest distortion in it’s class. You are not an entrepreneur. It is okay. Not everyone is. |
nobody here seems to have accentuated one salient issue- the world of audio recordings is not all "audiophile-approved." the majority of surviving recordings are decidedly of sub-par audio quality, and even sub-par musical quality, and if you listen to these through a less ruthlessly revealing speaker system/total audio system with mainly "sins of omission," you stand a good chance of not being able to clearly hear the aforementioned audible sins, thereby allowing for a greater amount of relative enjoyment of a greater number of recordings then less sullied by the [now] glossed-over sins of commission on a mediocre record. |
@emrofsemanon I have never found a less capable system to make music more enjoyable. That's just some bizarre phile lore that gets bandied about. |
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