Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods?

He is such a nice fella. 

Oh great, fantastic! I will read it with great passion and interest. Hopefully you get your problem solved and your questions answered. Best of luck

@yogiboy Actually, bears will poop anywhere, not just in the woods. 

So, yes, overpriced equipment abounds.   More so with tweaks and cables where the cost to sales ratio can be phenomenally large.  

The Orion speaker was costly to design and manufacture with home built drivers yet.  Whether it is sonically worth the $133K price is unknown, but it is an expensive audio product to produce from design to finish.  

@dean_palmer 100%  @jimmyblues1959  Nope  I have had the pleasure of hearing a $1 million+ audio system and it blew away any other system I've heard.  My own system(s) cost me $5K and about $60K, the latter in a $150K custom listening room.  The latter permits lesser cost speakers to sound like expensive speakers.  I plan on upgrading from my currently valued $2500 full range Focuses to a superior speaker for reasons of greater listening area (e.g Von Scweikert) and ambiance/resolution which will cost me somewhere between $35K and $180K.  I am satisfied for now but want to share with more than one or two people the sound of the center seat.  

There are some brands of high end, sometimes costly speakers which I do not find musically involving-Magico (heard 18+ A, S and Q series), Wilson (smaller the better), YG Acoustics, Vivid, Vandersteen, etc.  I heard several Rockports and liked them.  Still, I want to audition speakers in my room with my equipment to determine whether they will be worth the expense.   I'm certain the the $180K VS Ultra 7s would be wonderful (I've heard the 9 and 11 and my best friend's VR35 export) but my budget does not allow that and at 67, I may be too old when I can afford it. 

My primary concern in purchasing high end equipment/speakers is that the company goes out of business and no repairs can be made.  Especially with expensive equipment.  

Not so surprisingly a lot of businesses fail because they didn't do basic homework on the cost of doing business like say opening a restaurant and not figuring out things like how much money I have to make just to cover all the costs at the end of the month.  You would be surprised at how many simply don't do the math so when designing products with a limited economic audience, hopefully, you do some statistical analysis, and get a realistic idea of how many people are out there who can afford it but would purchase it.  Though, When Dave Wilson started his speaker company with the Watt, he thought he would sell a few, 20- 30(I have the review somewhere).  His business was recordings, records, but he ended up with 250 orders the first year and that was a very expensive item for what it did at the time.