New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan

Specs and information:

• 1.5″ THICK BAFFLE CRAFTED FROM SOLID AMERICAN HARDWOOD OR PAINTED MDF
• DRIVERS: TWIN 12 INCH DIA. STUDIO-GRADE BASS/MID UNITS ONE 1.125 INCH DIA. WIDE-RANGE SILK DOME TWEETER
• WIRING: JUPITER TWISTED PAIR IN COTTON
• FREQUENCY RANGE: 32Hz–20kHz +/- 2dB
• SENSITIVITY: 93 dB 1W/1M
• IMPEDANCE: 4 Ohm
• INPUT: WBT NEXTGEN 0703 BINDING POST. BANANA, SPADE AND BARE WIRE
• FEET: ISOACOUSTICS GAIA III

Can you say loss leader? Sure! I knew you could!!

Conmoto,

It refers to selling a product at little or no profit, or even at a loss to attract customers to a new product or company.....often times to get a good public response and "buzz" for the company. Not really a derogatory term, unless intended that way.

The Gaia feet alone are $50 each retail, or $300 for all six, the WBT binding posts are $45 each or $180 for four.....that's just about $500 just for the feet and binding posts per pair. It appears the caps, resistors, air core inductors, and wiring are also rather high grade....though I can't recall exactly what they are off of memory. Not sure about the driver costs. Overall he seems to be selling a very high quality product for an extremely fair price, Having no middle man (dealer network) also helps greatly.

Yes, also the drivers (no incidental expense in a loudspeaker), wood baffle, hardware, finish, labor, packaging, cost of doing business and a little thing called profit margin which keeps  the doors open.

This might have been borderline doable in 2019 (although I doubt it) but in 2023, no way. 

As a side note regarding my bonafides, I was in wood products manufacturing for 40 years. Which isn’t to say I’m am right, this is just my opinion based on some rough calculations. And, unless I missed it somewhere, there are no images of the rear of the speaker so hard to factor in the base, rear support, how many footers per speaker etc. so I can’t really accurately calculate all costs. 

 

So, what’s your point here cause I don’t see one.  A guy with more speaker design “bonafides” than you’ll ever know in your lifetime puts out what looks to be a potentially very high value product and you have to crawl outta your hole and call it a “loss leader” with no evidence to support such other than being a woodworker???  Gimme a break. 
 

@soix I think my point is pretty clear and I stated it was just my opinion. Second point was to see how long it would take for someone who disagreed with me to start hurling disparaging personal insults. Didn’t take long did it?? 😂

The way I see it, I don’t think the term is meant to denigrate, but compliment. At least in this case. It’s pretty obvious that Clayton is not making bank selling these speakers at that price. I would imagine this is an introductory offer that has a limited time span. 
 

Again, just my guess.
 

@ozzy62 That’s quite a bit better assessment of my post. Not meant to denigrate or compliment, just calling it as I see it.

Carry on folks, it’s time for me to crawl back into my sawdust laden hole!

@soix 

😂 Sorry but it’s a hard pass as far as taking any communication advice from you. 
 

And saying it twice doesn’t make it anymore astute. 

@jetter 

Thanks for the compliment. My first trade was around 2001 so twenty plus years now not fourteen. The join dates got screwed up when they redid the site many years ago. 
 

At any rate I consider my communication skills adequate and they have served me well over both my professional career and my trading hobby. 
 

In @soix defense my first post was a bit short and included a perhaps obscure reference to Mr Rogers which I grew up watching.  
 

But soix’s angry, denigrating response is one of the reasons I don’t post more. In my experience it’s not an isolated instance, especially on this forum.