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Awesome.

You would hope so.

If it’s a cost plus, then it’s irrelevant. But if it’s “market”, it would be good, but we would need to live with the product for a while and do our own comparisons to give a good number.

All fair points. The dependency of manufacturers on suppliers is a big one. Our industry is the small tiny fish. When a supplier is someone who is used to tens of thousands of orders from their automotive clients (think the company making face plates), we take the back seat and wait.

100% yes. You may have that one rare datapoint. But 99.9999% of the time, we are told pricing is based on cost plus or market.

I can honestly say, manufacturers almost never ask dealers about pricing (they actually should though, but 99.99999% of the time do not). It’s usually a cost plus model or they have a strategic reason for the final MSRP. The dealers job is to find the best product offerings in the customer’s...

The room/speaker synergy is most crucial. Some rooms just won’t work with some typology of speaker. Others are made for a particular typology of speaker. Controlled directivity, dipole, Omni, monopole, etc.

And he’s still growing. The mail man is also tall. 🤔

My son and I do.

Whenever I see ARC, I keep thinking I must find a REF5SE and a pair of 250SE monos. Loved that system.

It was great visiting you yesterday and thank you for such a fabulous lunch. I ate so much I skipped dinner! Florian the mad man is working on some new crossovers for the Aria. We should have them shortly and send you a pair. Better parts, better measurements. That’s all I know!

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The confusion is unparalleled. One customer said to me today, “If we can’t trust them to be open and honest about the ownership from the beginning, how can we trust them buying their gear?”