The price increases are due to a single word: Tariffs!
I currently work in the A/V business & just recently, Speakers & receivers from all brands have gone up $100 to $2000 dollars: To name a few, Denon, Audio Technica, & Bowers and Wilkins. So I don’t see why Sonus Farber would be any different.
Somehow, televisions have avoided these huge increases. I fear that these huge increases will nail the coffin shut on audio because someone who might have afforded the investment a few years ago is now priced out of the market.