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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal

Post Subject: $150k???Posted by Romy the Cat on: 7/2/2013

Hm, I do not think that it all might be as expensive. If I rebuild Macondo now from scratch then it will be probably around $10K-$12K. The cost of midbass horn will be we around $15K and the 12ch DSET would be around $18K. So the number of $40K does sound reasonable to me. Saying that I do not include into the calculation the cost of exotic drivers but only the construction of horns, harnesses, frames, logistics, regular drivers and etc.
I excluded also the whole “new system” that you appears look forward to get. This is completely up to you and this is very different subject.
Two advise (advise must have a dam plural form!!!) that you might find worthy.

If you like so much your ALE MF driver then you might consider GOTO as well as they are “close”. In your case it might be convenient as your Jeffery build a setup to a guy from Ohio who is (or at least was) USA GOTO rep. You might get options to experiment with them before lay a lot of cash and if I am not mistaken Jeffery did have good GOTO exposure.

If you do willing to get those bass ALE drivers that would cost dozen of thousand dollars then do pursue them in North America. They are sold with good 60% mark-up and no one will offer you any service for this mark-up. Get ticket to Japan and gat your ALEs in there. If you were be accompanied by a Japanese industry person then you might get then for Japanese “street price” that would be good 75% off from the USA retail.

The Cat

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