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The manufacturer claims the speaker was substantially re-engineered from -2 to -3

Harbeth claims that the C7 was substantially re-engineered between the -2 and -3 versions, and I have no reason to doubt them.

A manufacturer I know told me, and I have no reason to doubt him, that in the five year development of his flagship speaker, he paid his German OEM supplier to make 26 different midrange driver prototypes, and that the fabrication cost on all his ribbon-tweeter wave guide prototypes totalled $180,000.00.

You have to amortize those costs over the first couple of years of sales, if you want to stay in business.

You do seem to ignore that the Harbeth C7 -3 is a substantially revised speaker. I don't think, based on what I know of the industry, that they are profiteering.

How much does the silk in a $35 silk necktie cost? How much do the smelly molecules in a bottle of over-advertised fragrance cost? The only thing less efficient than a market where anyone can try to make a buck on anything, is a market where Harvard MBAs employed by the government decide who can make what. Live with it.

JM


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