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Your surmise is wrong... .

Not only wrong, but insulting.

I helped Peter McGrath assemble and dial-in a pair of Alexandria IIs. By my semi-educated estimate, there was more money spent on the frame that provides for the fore-and-aft adjustments and rake angles for the midrange and tweeter modules than is spent on many entire loudspeakers costing more than $5,000 a pair. Precise machining like on an old-fashioned German camera, and first-class paint in places that nobody who didn't help put the speakers together will ever see.

Seeing as the shipping weight of the crates was 2,250 pounds, and given that brick-and-mortar audio stores need substantial margins to stay in business, I'd say that what Wilson charges its dealers is fair.

But then again, I don't blink at pipe organs that cost over $1 million or even more. Nice things cost money.

I am not even driven crazy by Pichon-Longueville 1982 at $1400 a bottle.

I just can't afford it.

JM


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