I had Bend calibration tune my BMW M2. Id do full throttle accelerations in 4th gear and send them the recordings. They'd make adjustments, rinse and repeat. They made one map for premium fuel and one map for premium plus Boostane. I could never have gotten such fantastic results on my own and may have damaged the engine.
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Seems steep alright.At $3500.00 an additional cost for the DSP, one would have to think that you could better.
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I find the additional outputs and only 2 gain controls odd. My guess it's white labeled.
For about a thousand less that their DSP, I got 6 amps, one for each driver and a DSP unit. Their pricing is offensively absurd.
I have mentioned in the past that I think Klipsch is going for the luxury market, which pretty much implies turnkey solutions. So you have a very valid point there. I guess that some of us, myself included, will never get out of the "I can make it better" mindset.
I think I built the lions share of my system, speakers, amps, DSP and preamp for less than the going rate for a used pair of AL5. I made it better, Beranek's law, be damned. looking at recent sale prices on Reverb, I might have built my entire system for less than what they go for.
Wasn't the Cornwall IV one of their biggest sellers around 2021? Maybe Im just making that up. I get the not wanting to buy microphones, software, etc...But for $3500 for a bare bones DSP? I have to call a little BS as I constantly read about people perusing this type of setup and those who want the best sound are willing to endure or at least pony up the coin to pay someone to set it up. Maybe the market isn't there and I'm wrong? I must say I think it's an interesting topic.
By luxury, you mean those who want to showboat. I could see that, but I also see it as serious audiophiles or whatever you wish to call them going nuts over this if was done with a proper DSP.
Cornwall may have sold well for Heritage, but if I recall correctly, Heritage make well under 10% of Klipsch‘s sales.
This is the bottom line on this subject, I believe. Don't get mad over the price...(get even). And you don't have to wait until someone puts together a "kit"...that you'll probably find nowadays that you can't or won't afford due to its being badly overpriced. Thirty percent markup is reasonable...not 700%.
...but likely a disproportionate share of total profits.
Even with paying US wages, their markups do seem severe; given they’re made in Arkansas, I doubt they’re paying even 50% of scale to their skilled workers. That 700% P&O is probably covering administrative overhead in Indianapolis or wherever the e-suite is located these days. With the low sales numbers for Heritage, I’m surprised that vulture capital doesn’t decide that it’s not viable to manufacture them domestically, even in 3rd-world Arkansas.
I would be tempted to remove the screws and bevel the tweeter horn to match the mid opening.
At the very least, they could have put a mortise in the mid horn lip in the mold, for the tweeter edge and front mounted them both. I regret not doing that on my 3-way horns, there’s plenty of room for it.
Me too!
