Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups

The "look what the drivers cost" argument has been around for decades. It assumes that a loudspeaker is simply the sum of its parts. In reality, the parts are often the easy part.

What you're paying for is the engineering required to make multiple imperfect drivers behave as a coherent transducer in a real room. Anyone can buy the same drivers. Far fewer can design a speaker that disappears and makes music.

Judging a speaker by its bill of materials is like judging a symphony by the cost of the instruments.

You know it is BS when you hear there is not "objective sonic difference" between $5K and $10K speakers. 

The topic of overpriced high-end equipment comes up frequently, If speakers are marked up 5 - 50x and use cheap parts, there's a big opportunity for someone who can make the best sounding speakers available and sell them for $10,000.  They'd be a billionaire. 

Let’s not forget different companies have different amounts of operating overhead that factors into product cost.  So there is more to the story than simply what comprises the end product itself. 
 

For best value look for  quality companies with low overhead.  
 

Expect to pay a premium from companies with a lot of overhead expense that sell less product. 

@ghdprentice +1 nailed it. It’s human nature to look at the bill of materials for a thing and assign some “value” of final cost excessively weighted only on the BOM. Thinking about the investment of design engineering and investment into the process of final product…? Not so much.