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.
Things you did not know about what is inside your speakers and the Huge markups
Just check out this short video it unleashes a lot of cats out of the bag with drivers being marked up to 12+ times please all the totally unrealistic add ons it was normally a 5x markup on speakers including packaging now sometimes 50x msrkup they say R&D and engineering , having owned a audio store for a decade and a consumer and Xover and upgrades I did part time 8 hav3 seen it all in speakers and electronics check this out. https://m.youtube.com/watchfwjZ8rpczY
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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. |
@ghdprentice +1 |
@ghdprentice + 1 - that's also like a painter selling his paintings based on the cost of his or her brushes, canvas, and paints. A Picasso should be very affordable! |
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