Speaker brands known to use first class internal components

I understand your point. But most speakers over $5K are heavily reviewed and hopefully you have been able to audition them as well. If they sound great to you and have been professionally reviewed then does it matter? I am not trying to dismiss your concern, I completely get it. As ones learns, you might not be one hundred percent on top of the sound you should get for the money. That is why I throw in the professional reviews. The speaker business is highly competitive and companies can be expected to be judged on sound quality. They can put lots of cost into R&D for good sound and identify where they need to invest to make them sound good. But everything adds cost, so they put money into what they deem necessary. 

Lower end audio is largely based on advertising and using lowest cost components without discretion.

I'd rather have a loudspeaker that's well designed with run of the mill components than a less well designed loudspeaker with state of the art components.

Are there brands that can be purchased with "confidence" (pun intended) that are sure to use top notch crossovers, wiring and speaker cable terminals?

https://www.tidal-audio.com/technology-crossover/

https://www.tidal-audio.com/technology-drivers/

https://www.tidal-audio.com/technology-cabinets/

https://www.tidal-audio.com/technology-details/

Want to know the MSRP?

http://www.element-acoustics.ca/products.php?bid=140

They are too rich for my blood.

I’d rather have a loudspeaker that’s well designed with run of the mill components than a less well designed loudspeaker with state of the art components.

I definitely agree with this. As much as I’m concerned about internals, it would be even worse to get something with a poorly designed and constructed cabinet. The way I see it (and I could be wrong) if you’re starting with a well-designed and solidly build cabinet the sky is the limit as to how great a speaker can be if a person is willing to do some mods on their own. I do agree with you guys that sound quality is more important than internal components. And I understand that manufacturers have to carefully select components to ensure that there is still a profit at the end. I’m just concerned about extreme cases where crossovers and wiring of a $10,000 or more speaker are the same as those in a$200 to $400 speaker. To me that seems like sticking it to the customer even if they sound good. As for the Tidals and Rockports and such, I’ll have to check to see how many gold bars I have in the vault