Increase price for Vandersteens

He's been doing some big upgrades in both over the last year or so I believe. Newer trickle down drivers that really make them sound better.

Materials, labour, overhead ... You name it .... It all goes up eventually even in a low inflationary economy. You should expect it.

I would only be worried if the prices started to go down. Putting aside any thoughts of downward price changes with an erosion of quality (this is quality kit ) from the typical cheap POS Chi-fi race-to-the bottom-price race,

That is when deflation hits and catastrophic economic fallout commences. Discretionery spending in deflationary times nosedives. High discretionery items like audio equipment sales cratering triggering the demise of the suppliers will be high on the early casualty list as their sales quickly start to circle the drain.

I'd love to know what kind of business that uses significantly researched and proven intelectual property , quality materials, domestic labor all housed in North America where operating expenses do not go up annually.

Their lower end models have always been great value

One neat design feature on the 2sig2s are that they release the lower bass out the back through the ten in woofer
and mid bass in the front out of an eight, this allows a nice firm even handed in room bass response.
Since bass is the foundation to the music Vandersteen followed up with another set of excellent drivers and is now using the Patented open back reflection free 4 1/2 inch mid and tweeter from the Vandersteen 5As
This pushes this speaker from great value to great period.
JohnnyR
PS
if you wanted to read about the driver its pretty cool
Reflection free driver
http://www.patents.com/us-5073948.html