What makes an expensive speaker expensive


When one plunks down $10,000 $50,000 and more for a speaker you’re paying for awesome sound, perhaps an elegant or outlandish style, some prestige ... but what makes the price what it is?

Are the materials in a $95,000 set of speakers really that expensive? Or are you paying a designer who has determined he can make more by selling a few at a really high price as compared to a lot at a low price?

And at what point do you stop using price as a gauge to the quality? Would you be surprised to see $30,000 speakers "outperform" $150,000 speakers?

Too much time on my hands today I guess.
jimspov

Showing 2 responses by meerzistar

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R&D is a big one, metals semi precious and otherwise, designing all aspects of a speaker, tooling, designing and milling of all the tooling and components, exotic natural material and master craftsman that know how to form it, some of its painstaking detailed work depending on the speaker. None of this comes cheap it all adds up. Then as mentioned low production will further send up cost.