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How Many???

I realize that Bose must sell hundreds of thousands of speaker systems per year. But in the high end market, how many Avalons, Meadowlarks, Silverlines, Coincidents are sold each year? 100? 1000? I am sure Magnepan , Vandersteen,
are such great values, then that number must jump up to the
10,000 mark ( or am I way off???). I have not been to a best buy or circuit city or tweeter in years, but their house brands must sell in the tens of thousands of units
for them to stay in business. I am including home theater systems. So I guess the two channel companies must have a very low output. Does anybody has some hard numbers on the high end speaker companies sales?
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shubertmaniac OP
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Just curious, in the sense, how many companies even if they
have a good speaker, just go out of business. It is lack
of sales, lack of sales distribution, or lousy business model? Can a speaker company sustain itself if sales in the 100s or even 10s rather than thousands or tens of thousands.
shubertmaniac OP
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I do not know whether serial nos. mean anything. But my
Spectral DMA200 was s/n 234 and that was year
2/3 into production. My Avalon Radians were the 76th pair, in their 1st production run. So I could surmise, the numbers are low. One note is the basis of sales is: $200,000 in sales per employee. So if you were to know the number of employees, that could give you total sales; divide that by the average cost of each unit,should give you a ballpark number of units. But of course, I have not a clue to the number of employees at any high end company.
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