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Some good points, but you paint with a broad brush..

Zalytron has a variety of speaker/driver lines including ribbons, so and many different types of designs from ported to sealed, arrays, TL's etc, so generalizing about "Zalytron" speakers is a little unfair. I own a pair of their Aria 5's, (recent, upgraded wire, crossover, etc) and they are hard to beat for the dough. They are efficient enough to use with tubes, and robust enough to play dynamically. BTW, the drivers ARE too expensive for all but the highest cost speakers. Sometimes you can find companies that don't require huge overheads, such as VMPS using them. If a mass-market company like Infinity sold these they would be $2,500.00. If B+W had to make them in England and ship/distribute to the US they would be $2,800.00! Look at powered subs on the market, you get a $30-40 woofer and a $85-90.00 amp in a $500.00 sub.
When you buy a pair of speakers for $1,000.00 at a dealer, they were probably around $650.00 DELIVERED, so they left the factory for around $600.00. There will absolutely not be more than $150.00 cost in drivers in that pair in a big company. I think that's why "Cloning" is on the rise.
ACI is a company that offers phenomenal parts quality and enclosures, and represents a "best buy" as well. They do not require the margins of a publicly-owned mass-market company, so they don't have a roomful of accountants sitting around trying to make their stuff cheaper.

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