3D Printing And High End Audio


Does 3D printing technology offer any usable advantages in making excellent high end audio more affordable?
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Debatable. 3D Printing could conceivably print circuit traces, but robots already do that and also install components in them. Since the best audio is usually obtained with point-to-point wiring and non-strip-feed components, anything you could do with 3D would probably be more along the lines of consumer audio than the "high-end". 

It's possible that you could build PC boards with embedded resistors and capacitors, along with curved traces of solid silver, but why? You wouldn't be able to replace a component that failed. You'd have to replace the whole board, 

The only thing I can see being 3D printed is perhaps a speaker enclosure. And it would probably be more expensive and not as sturdy as conventional methods. Even casting them out of ceramic or concrete would be better.