Blue Ridge Sound Engineering Speakers ???

Here's more on these speakers... www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/acrhive/index.php/f-5-p-114.html

Wow you get a HI-VI tn28 tweeter full retail $13 .Heck looks to be most all HI-VI, stuffs ok but cheap is cheap.To me the tn28 is a painfull transducer not much can be done with it but for $26 a pair a deal for sure;)

Yep, cheap fer sure. 240.00 worth of drivers + cabinets(300.00?) + labor(?) + xover parts (100.00?) = 2000.00 for finished product. Even though I am skeptical about how they might sound, the markup seems to be in line with other high end speaker manufacturers.

>but for $26 a pair a deal for sure;)<

Not sure what you mean by that?

Oz

Tone Audio is going to do a review on these speakers soon.... www.tonepublications.com/toneAudio.htm

Retail markup in almost any product category is 100% or more so this perhaps is not out of line. That said, I am surprised in general about how cheap most of the drivers are that we buy in our speakers. Check out http://www.madisound.com/catalog.html#Loudspeakers to get a sense.

But I think in speakers we should be paying for sound - true that quality drivers play a part but beyond that it's engineering. A great speakersmith can make cheap drivers sing. A bad one can make great drivers sound like crap. Buy what sounds and looks good to you. If "economic sense" is important to you, this will prove to be a frustrating hobby/obsession.