High End Speaker Prices

I've always felt that extreme high end speakers should always sound great since the designers aren't restricted by cost…the genius is in lower cost stuff where designers have to really think about what's important and come up with something sounding great anyway (and they do, thank you Alan Yun). Great wine makers do this also, if sometimes inadvertently. Note that that small plot of land for the exclusive wine could also produce wine that sucks in a bad year, so it's not necessarily always a plot specific pricing scenario, unless it is. Or isn't. Or something.

While high end audio gets increasingly expensive, note that I bought my Silverline Preludes for 400 bucks (nearly new), my latest minty REL for 200 (my other beloved REL was also 200 bucks), my Jolida amp was around 1300 or something (new and upgraded), and so forth (previously owned AQ cables bought for a fraction of new stuff…etc)…all sound incredible together in my listening space, and although I can afford more expensive things I think it's more fun to find the mojo outside of retail and hype, and highly recommend this approach. Also it should be noted that the things I bought that didn't work for me (an otherwise well regarded cartridge, some beautiful looking but somehow inaccurate speakers, cable that didn't meet the hype) were sold on for profit, or simply returned for refund. Win friggin' win.