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I hope that these $40,000 speakers do not have a particle board-based enclosure. Though I'm not in the price range for these products, I have made my own assessment: if you want more than $10,000 for a pair of speakers in this day and age, you'd better have a materials science, non-mdf story to tell the consumer.
I appreciate the coverage. The price increases are unnerving for many products in this CES 2016 stream of reports.
Audio manufacturers could appear in an exhibition along with BCBS, Aetna, US Healthcare; these are the only other companies in our economy announcing such hefty price increases. And let audio manufacturers remember one thing: the likes of the companies listed above command a much higher priority in the budgets of all but the most committed audiophiles.
Thank goodness we had Elac speakers and the Dragonfly for CES 2016. It might be the only thing that many of us will be able to afford in the future.