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RE: Have to ask, what do you attribute the so very few new alnico home drivers to?

So why not more alnico in high end audio? Here is my attempt to guess.

"Seas Exotic" alnico tweeter cost over $500 for one crummy
dome tweeter. The alnico Seas woofer is $900 each.

About $3000 for drivers on a two way bookshelf speaker.
Maybe another few thousand for exotic caps and cabinets
not to mention operation expenses so at best I would guess
a minimum of $5000 a pair for materials and keeping the lights
on in your shop. Probably more in reality with labor and other expenses
etc.

The old rule of thumb on speaker markup has always been my understanding
to be around 5x the manufacturing cost to arrive at the list price.
So we are at $25,000 for a bookshelf speaker. Very limited market for
something like that.

The other thing I have noticed is that if you price you items too cheap people won't think they are any good a catch 22, price your self out of the market or get no interest at all...

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