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Re: Do You Believe The Price Simply Equals The Sum Of The Prices Of The Parts Involved?

"Do You Believe The Price Simply Equals The Sum Of The Prices Of The Parts Involved?"

(Spoken like a true high markup, low volume, low QPR manufacturer.)

Only if you believe that as a consumer you shouldn't have to pay through the nose for the least efficient possible way to manufacture something. In a world where the semi-skilled Chinese labor to assemble this speaker is worth one dollar a day while American labor he probably used costs $100 an hour (with overhead), where you are buying fifty of the most expensive portable television set speaker drivers ever conceived (similar to Peerless/Vifa Tymphany TG9FS 10D-4 @$34 ea at full retail) in a couple of rather ordinary two cubic foot wooden furniture boxes, and instead of a 31 band graphic equalizer which will perform identically for $200 retail you are getting a customized low volume production variant probably costing a thousand or two, the notion of paying as much for this obviously flawed off the shelf design as a new car rises to the level of mental illness as I see it. It isn't even worth the cost of building it yourself at one tenth the price as you can buy one hell of a lot of fine drivers these days for $1700 and build your own box. But then again, I'm not an audiophile, someone who will pay anything in a candystore display case because the they're convinced it's OH so sweet by a high markup, low volume, low QPR manufacturer. This is one reason why high end audio is nearly dead and fading fast.

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