More Local Speaker Manufacturers

EdT · 25th February 2007, 01:24 AM

The more I look, the more I find local or Canadian speaker manufacturers creeping out of the woodwork, but looking at their prices I think they are crazy, are they really worth all this money ?

http://www.rlacoustique.com/

http://66.130.192.248:9081/gemmeAudio/

http://www.totemacoustic.com/

peterbrorsson · 25th February 2007, 04:18 PM

Well, everything is relative. Considering Gemme and RL acoustique are horns I'm not that surprised.
I think that in Canada as in Sweden, labour is expensive and these horns are not a square box. Add taxes, social insurances, investments in machines, permits for using lacquers, advertisments..... list is endless.

In Gemme's case it is applied six layers!! of lacquers, with sanding between layers, + final polishing. This process will take about two days to complete as an average, if counting reworking of some 10% of the production due to errors made.

Also there's development that is time consuming=money spent before any sales.

There's always the alternative to move production to Asia. Well no wonder the products made there are cheaper. I've been to factories in most of the Asian countries. The work environments are pretty medevial,12-13 hours/day six working days and salary could equal a bowl of rice per day. (furniture factory in Indonesia)
I'm not saying that these conditions are a general rule, there are some nicer factories there.

Of course there are extreme examples in audio that make you cringe when you see what it's made of. Take Acuhorn from Poland, as an example. Using a 10 EURO retail price driver and charge 3000 EURO. This is a horn also but produced in Poland, which has 1/4 of labour costs as in West Europe. I have not heard them but obviously they do have sales.

In the end, it is the sound that counts and if someone have found a cheap good sounding product, then all credit to them. After all, a bad product will not survive for long.

Oh, forgot to say it is not so easy to make good sounding and good looking audio products.

Cheers

Peter

tomtt · 26th February 2007, 03:54 AM

would like to try these-

http://www.rlacoustique.com/reps1.htm

maxro · 26th February 2007, 04:08 AM

To quote from the RL acoustique website:

"AER MK-1 The new standard in affordable full-range driver? MSRP............$2,500 CDN"

Well, I suppose compared to their $9500.00 driver, that does seem affordable.

25th February 2007, 01:24 AM	#1
EdT diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2006	More Local Speaker Manufacturers The more I look, the more I find local or Canadian speaker manufacturers creeping out of the woodwork, but looking at their prices I think they are crazy, are they really worth all this money ? http://www.rlacoustique.com/ http://66.130.192.248:9081/gemmeAudio/ http://www.totemacoustic.com/

26th February 2007, 04:08 AM	#4
maxro diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Survey says: Least happiest city in Canada	To quote from the RL acoustique website: "AER MK-1 The new standard in affordable full-range driver? MSRP............$2,500 CDN" Well, I suppose compared to their $9500.00 driver, that does seem affordable. __________________ "Part of the reason a poot into a toilet bowl sounds the way it does is because of phase shift." -Andrew Eckhardt

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25th February 2007, 04:18 PM	#2
peterbrorsson diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cz Rep.	Well, everything is relative. Considering Gemme and RL acoustique are horns I'm not that surprised. I think that in Canada as in Sweden, labour is expensive and these horns are not a square box. Add taxes, social insurances, investments in machines, permits for using lacquers, advertisments..... list is endless. In Gemme's case it is applied six layers!! of lacquers, with sanding between layers, + final polishing. This process will take about two days to complete as an average, if counting reworking of some 10% of the production due to errors made. Also there's development that is time consuming=money spent before any sales. There's always the alternative to move production to Asia. Well no wonder the products made there are cheaper. I've been to factories in most of the Asian countries. The work environments are pretty medevial,12-13 hours/day six working days and salary could equal a bowl of rice per day. (furniture factory in Indonesia) I'm not saying that these conditions are a general rule, there are some nicer factories there. Of course there are extreme examples in audio that make you cringe when you see what it's made of. Take Acuhorn from Poland, as an example. Using a 10 EURO retail price driver and charge 3000 EURO. This is a horn also but produced in Poland, which has 1/4 of labour costs as in West Europe. I have not heard them but obviously they do have sales. In the end, it is the sound that counts and if someone have found a cheap good sounding product, then all credit to them. After all, a bad product will not survive for long. Oh, forgot to say it is not so easy to make good sounding and good looking audio products. Cheers Peter

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tomtt diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: kansas city mo, and on occasion, around the world ... Blog Entries: 15	would like to try these- http://www.rlacoustique.com/reps1.htm

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