Grumpy_Git said:
That is true, and I was going to mention it. There is little incentive for me to sell the non-value-added parts.
I have considered just selling the plans, but there is no way to control that and I would likely sell one set and then those would be spread all arround.
The waveguide and foam is where my value added, and profit, is and anyting that I do will have to contain those parts.
Brett said:
No. As ironic as this sounds, I've made a unity clone but I've never seen or heard one. I've bent over backwards to fix that, but it's never worked out. I tried to rent a Yorkville U15, but couldn't find one. I think I heard an SPL Unity at Club Ra in Las Vegas about ten years ago. I went there in November and they'd changed the name to Club LAX and ripped out the Unities
If anyone's interested, I'll be updating my project thread about the unities soon. Just yesterday I hooked up the new clones - this is my 2nd stab at a Unity. They're far from complete, but they're getting there ever so slowly.
paulspencer said:
Paul
These speakers first came about for my own home theater (HT). I could not find a high efficiency speaker with audiophile quality. High efficiency in a HT is a must since effects can be a much higher SPL than we would ever want music at. And movies without the full audio effect are simply not effective. Add superb quality audio and you'll never go out to a film again (I haven't been to a commercial theater since I broke down and saw Star-Wars III at its opening with my son. I wish that I had waited to see the DVD here. The sound is a lot better!!!)
There simply were not any really good really high MaxSPL speakers avaialble at a reasonable price. So I designed and built them. Initially I had no intention of selling them, but, as the reviews will testify, they were so good that I could not help but consider it. This is the classic BAD business approach - a product in search of a market.
Anyways the Nathan, Abbey, Abbey+ are absolutely the best HT speakers available.
I will be shipping the kits within a week (barring more disasters). I have about three weeks of production to fill and then I can ship on new orders. I am negotiating with Thailand now about shipping directly out of there as that's about the only thing practicle to Australia. That could be a month or two away.
Please remember that you don't get in the cue until a deposit is made. So for you, a deposit now would get you the product in not more than two months and maybe less. I would ship them from here if it looks like it will be more than two months.
paulspencer said:
I haven't worked out all the prices on the Abbey line yet, but I am guessing that it will be $900. Maybe a little lower, but not much.
Please remember that even for the Nathan I can't guarantee the quoted prices outside of the US because I don't know what the drivers will cost. I would guess that the prices in Australia will be quite a bit higher, but in Europe a little lower. I need to check on this with B&C.
gedlee said:
I'm so happy with my Summas, I'll probably get in on the DIY kits too. Yesterday I was working in the garage on my unities, so I hooked up an old line array that's been gathering dust for two years. It was SHOCKING how awful the line array sounds, now that I'm used to the Summas.
I have to warn you guys that driver availability outside of the US is unknown. I have a dealer agreement with B&C in the US, but obviously I can't ship the drivers to EU or AUS from here. What kinds of prices I get from the distributors abroad is unknown. B&C is looking into this now. The local distributors do not have to sell to me and they can charge anything that they want. This is a big open issue for sales abroad at this point.
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