@deep_333
Driver cost isn't the argument. Crossover design, cabinet construction, bracing, finish work, voicing, and the actual engineering time that goes into making those parts work together — that's most of what you're paying for, and it's also most of what determines whether a speaker disappears or not. Anyone can buy the same drivers Fritz uses. Getting them to integrate this cleanly, this consistently, across amps and rooms, is the hard part, and it's the part that doesn't show up on a parts invoice.
On the cost-of-living dig: that's not really a fair knock. Skilled labor and design time cost what they cost regardless of zip code, and a one-man shop hand-building crossovers and finishing cabinets to order isn't padding margin to cover property tax — he's pricing the actual hours in the product.
I'll pass on the Tekton comparison. I've heard a good range of speakers at a good range of prices over the years, and the Carbons are the ones I keep coming back to post about six years later. I've heard Tektons -- they sound like crap. That's the whole reason I'm here — not because I haven't heard cheaper alternatives, but because I have. And more expensive ones. Fritz beats every bookshelf I've tried.
Fair point on phase and disappearance, though — that's real, and it's not exclusive to small monitors. But the Fritz disappear BETTER.