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How Many???

I realize that Bose must sell hundreds of thousands of speaker systems per year. But in the high end market, how many Avalons, Meadowlarks, Silverlines, Coincidents are sold each year? 100? 1000? I am sure Magnepan , Vandersteen,
are such great values, then that number must jump up to the
10,000 mark ( or am I way off???). I have not been to a best buy or circuit city or tweeter in years, but their house brands must sell in the tens of thousands of units
for them to stay in business. I am including home theater systems. So I guess the two channel companies must have a very low output. Does anybody has some hard numbers on the high end speaker companies sales?
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agonanon
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If the Q'n is just motivated by curiosity, hopefully an industry insider will be able to post something directly helpful.

Don't giggle, but if the Q and especially the A is "mission-critical", you can put a price on it at google A's. Some of the researchers have been known to go to extraordinary lengths (telephoning countrywide etc) to scoop the bounty. (No disclosures nec'y here since no affiliation.)
agonanon
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For countries requiring filing of annual financial reports I imagine one could make decent educated guesses about unit turnover well within one order of magnitude, so then one would know whether it was 10-100, 100-1000 etc. OTOH that only goes for public companies whereas in the high end, the privately held are probably in predominance. Of course if curiosity is killing the cat, we could just pool resources for some enterprising googly bounty-hunter - unless some industry cognescenti begin spelling-out some beans ;)
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