Price increase

2800.00 to 3500.00 is the fair  value of The B&W 802n. Speakers. They make audio gear  every day of the year, year in and year out and the market is saturated with the audio gear so pricing  Needs to be more realistic or there are going to be a lot more stores selling hi fi gear out of business . It is  happening nationwide because of overpricing products .  So manufactures need to get in line and figure out what they're going to do about cost of their gear or go the way of the dinosaurs .

The market has more high end gear now than  ever before .

The thing is there are only so many ways you can make a speaker. Looks is one ,but cross overs and the speakers you can use in the cabinets are basically the same but for the hype. When it comes to the electronic gear they all use the same basic designs . The Dac or chips may be different but they all share the same Dac and chips with each other All parts are made by companies that sell them to the makers of gear. I work on the gear. McIntosh has oppo parts in them , just take the top off of your gear and you will see many parts stamped with other company's parts names on them.Their is no big   Magic going on , all you're doing is sending a signal in one end and it gets sent out the other end to the speakers in  analog . No one company makes all of their own parts they buy Dac's from Dac companies, they buy chips from chip companies  for pennies on the dollar because they buy in  bulk . I have been fixing gear  since 1970 . And the basic  engineering in audio gear is the same . Now we use  integrated  circuits and  Dac's and chips that do most of the work to send a  analog  Signal to your speakers so you can  understand the words and Music because we ear in analog and speak in Analog and not digital.  I used to build speakers years ago and there is no great  Secret  how to  build a great set of speakers .  The   Manufactures need to be more honest with the consumers .

90  percent on audiogon our dealers selling their old stock .