Why pay so much for super high end?


Most speakers costing $50,000+ use Seas, Scan Speak or Accuton.

In DIY forums most speakers designed use bargain drivers and usually are only 2.0 designs not bookshelf or center speakers to complete a surround system.

I’d love to have a Scan Speak 11 speaker system for atmos with 3 way bookshelves, center and floorstanders.

Why aren’t the designs out there and why are you guys pissing away all your money.

Personally I won’t get an upgrade from my speakers unless it’s of this caliber and neither can I afford nor want to donate money to these thieves.

A 3rd party 11 speaker atmos scan Speak system would be nice but I’m not spending $250,000.

Why on earth aren’t there designs out there for this and why do you all piss away your money?

I don’t get why hi fi isn’t all DIY even honest factory direct companies mark up 300%.

Unless you pull in $1+ million a year and don’t have any time I don’t get it.

Are you guys lazy?

Someone easily could design a great crossover and cabinets for everyone and the days of paying over $3,500 for a pair of loud speakers if you got some time or know a friend who could build cabinets would be over. I know of people who could design cabinets that rival $100,000 speakers and cost less than 1% than that.  Someone with some experience could easily design a diamond, beryllium and soft dome and various versions for various tastes.

I don’t get it. Speakers are so simple.  Crossovers cabinets and drivers.

You guys just throw your money away I don’t understand it why?


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Music, and it's reproduction, are one of the unique creations of humanity.  It soothes, it excites and it provokes thought!  Music expresses our emotions and deepest desires.  Music entertains, enhances, complements and conjures up moods and atmospheres otherwise unnoticed.  Music is the language of our souls!  Insane?  Incorrect?  Hobby?  Really?  It is a most noble endeavor that speaks to the very core of what it means to be human.  Music and any pursuit to re-create it is consequential....music is our souls water!  Without it we are not truly alive.

Another thought; You don't see Rolls Royce's and VW's sold out of the same showroom. Yet everything in audio is lumped together. A bit strange. My concern isn't the megabuck speakers but rather the $20,000 speaker becoming the norm. Oh well, my house can't hold anymore anyway! Joe
jmcgrogan25,689 posts02-22-2017 6:58ambetter put my hip-waders on....it’s really getting deep in here now. ;^)
Why isn’t Audiolatrine posting in this thread? Could it be that....he doesn’t have a super high end system? Just a super case of schizophrenia?!