Speaker system a little pricey?

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Whilst waiting for my new tyres to be fitted I was browsing a current ‘What Hi-Fi’ magazine. Not being one of the hi fi officinado, but do enjoy my home system, I was astonished to read up on a pair of floor standing speakers. Looked very nice and the report was of a near faultless performance ‘as expected of the price’ of £44,000. By eck that is a woden of cash me thinks.
Then further browsing brought another eye opener speaker system, reported as perfect and a very unusual look about them. Price tag £700,000 seven hundred thousand pounds!!!
Sorry I cannot recall manufacturers of either speaker systems due to the shock of the price tags. Can any speakers be worth this money?

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Just to clarify, no way can I afford or justify these speakers. I simply cannot imagine what is in them to justify the price. I do agree with you though, if one has the money to.spend as such then why not. Personally I would rather by a very nice house for the £700,000!!!!

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[quote=Hang On]These will be Wilson Audio chronosonics. Highly reputable company but these are snake oil imho. Even if I could afford them I would hate to have something so adjustable that I would spend my life twiddling with them. Sweet spot would be pretty small too I guess. The biggest factor in the sound of a hi-if is the room it is in and if I were spending £700k on hi-fi, most of it would go to the architect/builder.[/quote

Yup, the Wamm model. TBH I am still in shock over!

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hyphen said:

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Whilst waiting for my new tyres to be fitted I was browsing a current ‘What Hi-Fi’ magazine. Not being one of the hi fi officinado, but do enjoy my home system, I was astonished to read up on a pair of floor standing speakers. Looked very nice and the report was of a near faultless performance ‘as expected of the price’ of £44,000. By eck that is a woden of cash me thinks.
Then further browsing brought another eye opener speaker system, reported as perfect and a very unusual look about them. Price tag £700,000 seven hundred thousand pounds!!!
Sorry I cannot recall manufacturers of either speaker systems due to the shock of the price tags. Can any speakers be worth this money?

Mainstream manufacturers will release one set of products between 1-5 years cycle, av amps may be every year speakers may be longer, so seeing as they publish every month, these mags have to find stuff to fill their pages, they can't drip feed reviews as the reader won't wait for them to review todays released amp in 6 months time.

Also by featuring very expensive speakers, they will be aspirational,glossy and upmarket enough for the premium mainstream hifi makes such as b&W to spend good money on adverts.

They will probably be made to order, and very few people will ever buy those speakers, and even less at RRP. Large manufacturers often make these 'statement' products for show use too, lots of free press coverage, don't take it seriously.

No different to a car mag which may feature some obscure sports car over a double page spread, but the reader will be more interested in the ads for the lease special Golf R's.

Edited by hyphen on Thursday 14th December 13:16

Indeed, in fairness the mag’ suggested that interested purchases should hurry as the company are only building twenty sets!