@audioman58 …having owned a audio store…
This is not the same as running an engineering R&D+manufacturing company including equipment and maintenance, overhead, and payroll costs.
+1 @ghdprentice
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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Always worth remembering that the Speaker designed in one environment, and especially that of an anechoic chamber is not the same Speaker performance when brought into a domestic space. Software designed for interfacing speakers into a space will not create an environment for siting the speaker that resembles an anechoic chamber. The off-the-shelf speaker purchase method and the assistance that can be used to create the best room interface for a speaker are not the cheapest way to achieve a speaker set-up in a room that is suitably interfaced. |
@phusis re: 'The Joseph Audio Perspective 2, which retails for something around $14k or so today, is almost identical to the SEAS Thor kit," Except they are completely different designs, TL vs, vented, the Thor is a d'Appolito MTM 2-Way design and the Perspective a 2.5 way. The woofers are different: the Thor using SEAS Excel W18E-001 (E0018) that cost $361.70 ea and the Perspective 2 uses the SEAS Excel W18EX-003 (E0074) costing $579 ea, both Madisound prices. The crossovers are completely different topologies, slopes, frequencies and components. They do appear to share the SEAS Excel W18EX-003 (E0074) tweeter, $569 also from Madisound. Perhaps that's what you meant by "almost identical".
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This feels like unserious clickbait. @panzrwagn makes good points above. As does everyone else who pointed out that a DIY build cannot be compared to a commercial product, for numerous reasons. There are definitely some overpriced products out there in high end audio. But this doesn't help with that problem. |
Gang,
Listen, I love DIY and making my own speakers. At the same time, I recognize that even if I made fantastic speakers there's absolutely no way I'd be able to take them to market. Making and marketing and shipping and supporting speakers is expensive AF and requires a level of masochism and mental toughness I believe few of us have. The markup is BIG for a reason. Best,
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