"Jack Zeal" wrote in message
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There's another possibility.
I'm thinking there isn't a huge difference in construction cost between
high-end and low-end speakers (do the parts of a $800 speaker cost 10
times those of an 80 dollar speaker?). A lot of money gets spent in
design and test.

Rather than developing a completely new high end and low end model, they
could take a high-end model, and deliberately cripple it. Perhaps
sometimes the "magic dots" defeated limitations so added.

Not likely, however a thought.

A high end speaker uses very fancy magnets, a super quality voice coil, a
robust frame, often cast, and top quality speaker cone materials. Then it's
all put together by people who know what they are doing and care about it
and take the time to get it right. I'm sure the margins are better, but so
are the margins in the best restaurants as compared to MickeyD's.

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