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.
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I own $20000 B&W speakers. At audio show, the speakers I felt obviously better than mine were all a lot more than $20000. I think price does matter somehow.

if you have a BIG BANK ACCOUNT  you can fool yourself into  believing that the speakers you plan on buying ........   say 150,000 bucks but you also seen & listened to a set that you didnt know that they were only 2,000  but can anyone honestly say that the set at 150,000 are  148,000  TIMES BETTER than the set at  2,000  ..........   i say " Bollocks "