[Audio Empire]

On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:23:25 -0700, Dick Pierce wrote
(in article ):

On May 10, 6:06=A0pm, Audio Empire wrote:
On Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:48 -0700, jwvm wrote
(in article ):
Good speakers, especially, are quite expensive.

So are bad speakers, and some especially bad ones are
especially expensive.

For instance, there is little decent in the way of speakers
below about the $1K level

There is no intrinsic reason fr this to be. The major
cost components in a speaker are magnet assemblies,
cabinets, profit and overhead (and the ordering is all
over the map). Everything else seldom adds up to be
equal to any of of these components.

I agree, but most expensive speakers are made by small companies and are the
result of small-scale economics. Plus a lot of high-end speakers use exotic
materials like carbon fiber and dense space-age resins for drivers and
cabinets. Wilson audio comes to mind here. Also, development costs get
amortized over far fewer units of any one model in small company as well. I
guess the analogous situation, cost wise, would be Ferrari. Ferrari cars are
outrageously expensive, If Ford built a car like a Ferrari, it would sell for
half the cost or less (they actually did. Back in the early 2000's Ford built
a modern re-interpretation of their 1960's era GT-40 race car. It was very
similar to build quality and performance to a Ferrari 360 Modena, but
list-priced for almost half. and that was still a limited production model).