B&W Rip-Off

OK, I'm wondering why you feel the need to poke at this? The seller (who has a 2.5 year record of good feedback), isn't advertising them as B&Ws. If copied designs were the basis for crapping on things, you could slam 90% of the industry. Let me guess, you got a pair of B&Ws for sale and worried someone is going to buy these instead?

Caveat, I have no relationship with the seller of these things, and think B&W and Krell are for poseurs anyway.

Geez Krellm7, take a pill. The way I read the ad (the jump link is actually pretty funny), they are 700 clams, not $1K, so your argument loses a little steam. I'm guessing, based on other feedback about TAD, you might get your money's worth. As far as the hyperbole on the website, heck, its no where near the level of rhetoric on the cable manufacturers' or vibration control folks' websites. And, frankly, saying you ought to hear them before calling them cheap isn't a "circulatory" argument (I believe the term is actually a "circular" argument, and it isn't applicable at all in the context you have used it).

Heck, I find B&W's sound pretty sterile, so in my book it wouldn't be too hard to build a better speaker. Moreover, given the cost of prototyping and production in China, as well as vast improvements in quality control, these might just be B&W killers.

Krellm7-

But, geez, what if there is only one bid? Since BZB is a retail shop, would he post a minimum bid that was lower that what he was really willing to sell for? Since he is the only importer, ya think he might be able to arbitrarily manipulate what the "retail" price is? Do you really think, that if anyone wanted these, they would engage in a bidding war when the seller seems to have a large supply and has posted a minimum bid of $700?

Your understanding of auction economics is rivaled only by your idolatry of form over substance.