Still, with the pound currently at $1.36, the Classic pre-tax price in the UK is £7200 = $9800. That's $3200/25% less than US retail. Ouch. Similar markup on the other models. Which likely all goes to the distributor. A number of other European speaker manufacturers do their own distribution in N. America and are *much* more price competitive. eg. Dynaudio. Spendor is likely not big enough to make that work though.
Finally - New Spendor distributor in North America
Spendor has finally chosen a new distributor after the apparently not-so-good job that Bluebird did ... The Sound Organisation, which also distributes a bunch of other UK brands including Chord, Fyne, ProAc, and Rega.
https://soundorg.com/news/the-sound-organisation-welcomes-spendor-audio/
The bad news - they bumped up the prices on A-line and D-line a bit (A7 now $5500, D7.2 $7000) ... which surprises me to be honest given already high prices relative to UK.
The good news - looks like they are distributing the entire Classic series and we may now be able to actually audition them at local dealers ... https://soundorg.com/spendor-audio/classic/
https://soundorg.com/news/the-sound-organisation-welcomes-spendor-audio/
The bad news - they bumped up the prices on A-line and D-line a bit (A7 now $5500, D7.2 $7000) ... which surprises me to be honest given already high prices relative to UK.
The good news - looks like they are distributing the entire Classic series and we may now be able to actually audition them at local dealers ... https://soundorg.com/spendor-audio/classic/