Ps audio aspen FR 30 Loudspeakers

dgluke said....”As they are helping to recoup those R&D costs at a higher clip than what was expected when the engineering started.”

According to McGowan they only price product based on cost to get product into the consumers hands.

Quote from Paul...

”As many of you know, PS Audio prices its products not by how much R and D or tooling costs were spent but rather a very simple formula of parts, shipping, and labor times a standard markup.”

My point was even if it sounds good with average parts , 

by using the top 10 % in quality will ultimately sound better ,If you are willing to go Thst extra mile to get That refinement . IHave proved this many times , with many 

well known brands ,that is how Dan Modwright became so popular ,taking a good product and putting in much high grade parts in key areas ,the same thing applies to Loudspeakers, my point was the speaker can be that much better in low level detail, imaging,and soundstage depth judt by putting in day another $$800-$1k in parts  I  recently took a very respectable Dynaudio speaker and put $1500 into the Xover and wiring it literally transformed it to compete with speakers 2x+ it’s cost ,being into mods or upgrades for so long ,I am sometimes very critical , it’s just my observation  on what’s possible nothing more.

It is not just parts quality, but how you do things. For instance, it sounds better to wire a coil into the inside and out the outside winding. So, the outside winding would go to ground or output.....practically no one knows this. I don’t know a single speaker done this way. It is not subtle, the sonic difference. There are connectors on drivers that you can bypass and wire directly to the voice coil wires.....no one in the world does this.....sometimes, especially when a driver has binding posts on it.....the sound can be completely transformed by removing the binding post and hardwiring to the voice coil wire.  All capacitors need to be oriented properly.....like the coils....that is, the outside foil on the cap should go to ground or output.  I don't see any markings on the caps in the PS Audio xover, so I would assume they are all put in there willy nilly.   All binding posts degrade the sound. The best ones that I have heard are the WBT Negtgen coppers. Even better than that is using nylon hardware to clamp your speaker wires to the xover wires.....as shown in the pic of the Apogee xover on my site. I will have this as the main set up on a bookshelf speaker I will be producing later this year (of course, it will have the wires going directly to the voice coil wires on my full range driver in the box). You do not want to use traces in your xover....you want the parts hardwired together. You want the xover parts not vibrating with the box....or on their own.......on and on it goes....this game is infinite. Enjoy this moment....the only moment that exists

Does anyone know what the cabinets are made out of? Just by looking it reminds me of molded plastic or fiberglass. All it says on the website that I could find was very vague and said it was a very dense material. If it is a molded Cabinet it must’ve cost a fortune for all the dies. Does anybody know more about this?

I also wondered why they sell them by round? I think the proper word would be container full. I don’t think any of it is manufactured in the United States. It probably shows up completely boxed up and ready to be shipped in a container. Then when they move to the next round they only are committed to buying the difference between what is not sold and what was sold. If they do get stuck with some then it’s not like getting stuck with a warehouse full of them.

I found this online...

“The enclosure is made from extensively-braced MDF with a front baffle formed from a dense, rigid, and well-damped fiberglass resin composite material. Integrated high-frequency acoustic waveguides are molded into the baffle to enable optimum horizontal and vertical dispersion and a smooth frequency balance both on- and off-axis.”