Why the huge increase in the price of Sonus Farber Amanti G5 speakers.

@gano 

I hate politics!

 And you will never see me post about politics, but tariffs are sometimes non political and have been around for decades. What’s happening in the US today is not political.  It’s one man’s view of taxation being used to control other countries with the benefit of potential income for the US government.  There are people on both sides that love/hate them.  For me so far, they made my car more expensive ( but not 20%) and a few of my groceries more expensive. But if I was in the market for a new pair of speakers, that big of an increase would definitely make me look elsewhere.
Getting back to my original post, I could be wrong, but I don’t believe the US has enacted 20% tariffs on the EU yet and Italy is still status quo with China, so rare earths are not the problem.  So why did Sonus Farber raise their prices so much? Someone from Australia ( forgive me for not remembering who) said that SF  prices went up 27% across the board. Here it’s almost 20%. Someone else suggested it was the new owners being greedy and sadly that might be the correct answer, but it surely can’t be good for their business.

It was asked as a non political question.

@curiousjim I am sorry I didn't mean to annoy you. My comment was thinly veiled irony. The mods often tell me that if I say it's raining outside, it was political and must be deleted. (Someone flagged it>must be political>must be deleted)

In this environment, when companies are forbidden to be honest about what raises the prices, we must call everything out, otherwise we will soon be in a regime even the other side would hate to live in. I think we will soon find out.

Here's something to get  some people's dander up, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtzSSOexw0&t=308s Danny at GR Research and Sonus Faber.

@sns 

I did see that video and I even commented on it.  I don’t think I said exactly what I wanted to say, but he was doing his schtick on speakers from 2018 and that there have been updates to that speaker since that model was released, two I believe.  
It is kinda funny watching him when he finds something Ferris anywhere in or on a speaker. I see Chicken Little every time he points it out.

@gano 

No worries, you did not annoy me in any way.  I really don’t like where politics have gone in the last few decades. So I do my darn best to stay as far away from them. That’s why I repeated that my question was not politically motivated.

Enjoy the music.