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One of the mid-woofers of my ELAC DBR62 Reference speakers (currently $700 at Amazon and Crutch) was damaged. I emailed customer support asking if I could buy a replacement.
No problem! $25 including shipping!
Follow Ups:
How about forgetting the Elac driver and getting a better pair of drivers? Could beat Andrew Jones to the sound quality.
Bill
So for a pair
$120 drivers
$30 crossovers
$200 enclosures and binding posts, badges, coversSo about $350 in parts and only 2 times to buy at 700. Good deal 1
And most manufacturers would ask 4 times the cost for " replacements". Good deal 2
So buy a pair and have it on hand
Edits: 01/17/24
I should have bought another pair. Instead I went recently for Wharfedale 12.4 new pair on sale, at very close to the same price, which sounds about as good but is 3X the size and weight!
Parts cost for almost anything produced today follow the greater investment of development, promotion and distribution.
So, a $700/pair pair of loudspeakers usually has $140 a pair in parts and labor. The rest of it goes to:
1) Dealer Markup and perhaps Importer or Distributor Markup, and possible Sales Rep Commission
2) Manufacturer Overhead (the costs of doing business--salaries, rent, advertising, etc.)
3) Manufacturer Profit.
So, each speaker has a Build Budget of $70. Let's call it $25 for the cabinet and $25 for the drivers, and $20 for crossover, binding posts, the boxes, etc.
Now, perhaps they are cutting their margins and putting more money in the speakers.
But I am not shocked that the mid-woofer cost "only" $25.
john
I recall Bud Fried(IMF and Fried speakers) telling me decades ago that times five was really good and that many speakers(more than electronics) had a larger margin. I suspect that's still true.
Bill Hecht, founder of Phase Technology (and patent holder for the soft-dome tweeter) built a lot of speakers for the Fried label. He told me the same thing: five times the cost of parts and labor.
I've never worked on the business side of things but in my business 50% gross margin is a good goal, and it's a nice factor to keep in mind because it means each time the good passes down the chain the price doubles (i.e. each person gets 50% of the price they sell it for as margin). So, a manufacturer sells something to a dealer for 2x what it cost to make and then the dealer sells it for 2x what he bought it for. I can easily imagine this morphing to your 5x multiplier depending whether the manufacturer sets their price based on the direct cost of goods sold, and pays overhead & indirect costs out of their margin, or whether some/all overhead is amortized into the manufacturer's price. Volume/total revenue probably feeds into that as you need a certain minimum income to keep the lights on - if you only sell one widget a week that must carry all the costs, but if you sell a thousand then it's a different story. I don't know real world high-end audio numbers and if there is a distributor in the chain as well that must change the margins otherwise the retail price would be 8x the manufacturing cost and make things unaffordable. Perhaps all three in that chain settle for lower margins to make it sellable?
Recall it can be 3 sets of hands, manufacturer, independent rep and then dealer.
Reps generally get 5%.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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