Dynaudio C1, why so expensive?

They're very good speakers. But IMO my speakers, the Harmonic Precision Caravelles, the source of many heated Audiogon forums posts, are better. I've personally compared them a number of times at different dealers when I was auditioning other components. They're close but for the better sound of the Caravelles and $2000.00 less price tag, well!

Right now there are two pairs on Audiogon at a ridicuously cheap price because they're not well known: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrmoni&1289810264&/Star-Sound-Caravelles-with-sta and http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrmoni&1287685938&/Star-Sound-Technology-Caravell. The pair for $2100.00 has the better stands than the pair for $1500.00, but either pair is a steal.

Chuck

Richard,

I don't know if you asked this question about the C1's because you are curious about the price or looking for new speakers.

After I heard the Caravelles over a number of months five years ago, I sold my B&W Silver Signatures and bought them. The Silver Signatures were $8000.00 when they came out in 1991, so if you're wondering about expensive and really good monitors, here's another. But I sold them and bought the Caravelles, the Caravelles are better in my system.

Here's the 6Moons reviev/preview of the Caravelle speakers: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/starsound/caravelle.html

Chuck

Matro5,

I was trying to be helpful. My second post was asking what Richard was wanting to know. Was he questioning the price because $7000.00 is expensive or because he was looking for another speaker.

Dynaudio speakers are very, very good speakers. I personally wouldn't have a problem buying the C1s myself. I like the Dynaudio sound, I also like the sound of the B&W Silver Signatures. The Caravelles have the same sound, these are not warm colored or cool colored speakers, all three are very precise and neutral.

If you've looked at my system and my past systems, you've seen that I've been around a lot of high end systems for a lot of years. I was simply giving Richard, since we've talked before, an alternative, excellent speaker that lists for $5000.00, expensive too, but are here on Audiogon at a steal.

If you have a problem with that, not knowing that Richard and I have talked a few times in the past, I'm sorry.

Why don't you share your knowledge of what makes up the $7000.00 price of the C1? You may know marketing reasons for the price that most people do not. Who really knows why a company prices their products the way they do. It may be justified in the R&D and parts or it may be the companies reputation and expectations about what they can bring in for a product.

By the way, if anyone wants a Dynaudio Sapphire at dealer cost, brand new, but cosmetically damaged so that it's probably not resellable, I can hook them up.

Chuck

George,

Yes, I'm always on the lookout for something better, but as much as I liked the C1's, my Caravelle's were better to me.

Just as I wouldn't sell my B&W Silver Signature's for the B&W 802D's, but I sold them for the Caravelle's.

Chuck