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"Honey- for your birthday, I got a great deal on a pair of speakers for our living room!"
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Not sure they care how many pairs they sell. It's a reference to use against their other speakers.
" Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you"
Satchel Paige
Not sure they care how many pairs they sell. It's a reference to use against their other speakers.
" Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you"
Satchel Paige
Nice high round numbers sell better to them mega-rich people from Asia :)
These should be priced at $749,999.99 so more people could afford them.
Maybe this will make a lot of people buy cheaper Magico speakers.
Bill
Really stupidly expensive.
Extends well beyond audio.
The price of exclusivity is going up all the time!
In keeping with that, how much you think that outfit the guy on the right has on cost?
Same principle.
I think the real question here is: why does the guy on the left have only ONE thumb up?
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
One has nearly 457,000 fine tuned parts, while the other has couple hundred.
One requires only energy to function, the other requires many other complex devices to work
One has fine styling, the other has fine styling too.
One has value times ten , the other has only Cachet for Oligarchs and
Poor Audio Journalists.
Those Speakers were more than our house back then. Talk about WAF!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
Hi, maybe the castor wheels have titanium tungsten diamond mini ball bearings!..Mark Korda
I looked up the construction of the flagship Magico speakers. Some pretty interesting materials used. For sure exorbitant!
Some automobiles come with pretty high end audio systems. Maybe it's the other way around with the Magico speakers. If you buy a pair they throw in an SUV!
As crazy as the prices are, there are certainly things much more expensive than audio equipment being purchased as prestige statements.
Actually pretty cool that audio gear gets recognized in extravagant circles.
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
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If labor is 10% of retail cost that leaves $75,000 for labor. A labor cost of $100 an hour total can get excellent trades and manufacturing help. At $100 an hour labor cost that gives 750 man hours labor per set of speakers. That's almost 19 man weeks. I can get a lot of work done in 19 weeks. How about you?
This for machinery composing 12 moving parts of a very mature technology.
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But actually not much of mass as few made in auto terms
But your statement is the go-to when audio salesmen/marketers are cornered by the product's arrogant pricing model is being pointed out .
Another way to put this speakers lack of value. After giving the maker 2,000 lbs of silver (speakers weight), you'd still need to fork over shy of $100,000 more. Unjustifiably.
way less money. both products have built in price increases because the public desires them. They are not non-luxury essentials with multiple companies making them to serve the masses.
I count 12 moving parts on the Magicos. The brakes alone on the Vette are more sophisticated machinery than the speakers and are called upon to do far more work.
There really is no comparison between speakers like this (any consumer audio component actually) and the safety systems on even budget vehicles. Beginning with specifications, continuing with the "amount" and quality of engineering to the actual manufacturing processes.
I mean, really ... $750k for a box speaker?? I love to hear a shootout between this beast and my favorite beast, the Sound Labs 945. My money will be on the Sound Labs unit.
Lack of skill dictates economy of style. - Joey Ramone
a man who can't buy a proper fitting pair of pants? LOL
I bet they don't sound as good as my new speakers. Falcon Acoustics LS3/5a.
LS3/5A's are nice speakers albeit with limited poor, boomy bass and limited dynamics as well as a dip in the midrange. Control yourself.
Gee, I wonder why they sound so great and have been popular with audiophiles for the last 50 years.
My friend Murray Zeligman once wrote an article - Color Me Perfect. By the way I owned a pair and liked them a lot. I just don't think your comparison made sense.
I was mostly being ironic.
Edits: 02/06/24
I hope no one takes you up on that bet!
No doubt they can play LOUDLY.
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