The new dynamic in speaker pricing

Of course they are not worth the price they ask for but theres no other way to obtain these speakers so audiophiles will continue to buy them. If one speaker company charges $10k, the next will charge $50k and so on. The prices have continued to rise over the years and soon we will be seeing speakers costing tens of millions of dollars that are made of wood. There will always be someone that can afford em so the hoodwinking will continue in the foreseeable future.

If these folks haven’t stolen their earnings, why on earth would folks begrudge what they purchase? If I earned more, I certainly would have a bigger house, better system, better cars, better clothes… and the list goes on and on. I buy what I can afford. They buy what they can afford. Why do folks have such an issue with other’s spending habits? It’s life. There will always be winners and losers. Everyone doesn’t get a participation award.

@rocray

its not a question of whether they have stolen their earnings. The issue is that, if one idiot buys a million dollar speaker, all the speakers companies will raise their prices and make them unaffordable for the rest of us. Why is that so hard to understand?

@barts 

But then you would be restricted to musicians that are alive and non studio recordings. Not much fun is it?

Look, if anybody wants a million dollar speaker come to me and I'll do you a custom tuned speaker system and charge you a million bucks. Solid concrete no rattling whatsoever, custom crossovers and custom tuned TO YOUR EARS after a thorough audiometry hearing test to find out exactly the extent of your hearing loss. Name me ONE speaker company that would go to that trouble. These charlatans are selling you mass produced overpriced junk. If you charge even $50k a pair, I expect a custom tuned system hand made and hand tuned to MY EARS and MY ROOM and nobody elses. I expect diamond woofers for that level of cost