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RE: Welcome to high-end speaker-land....

Posted by Christopher (Critofur) on April 13, 2011 at 11:07:35:
Boy was I pissed off when I cut apart my $1,000 oil painting, had the lab analyze it, and found the artist had used paints that only cost $8.75 per tube!

Get the idea? Anyway, nothing wrong with a ~ $1,000 or so speaker using a "$50" woofer and tweeter. What matters is, with the overall system, can you find another speaker that you personally like better for the same or less money? Do you have the time, knowledge, desire, and tools to build a pair for yourself?

If a speaker does cost more than a couple thousand dollars then I would expect it to use either high quality or custom drivers which are well integrated into a whole "greater than the sum of it's parts".