S-Trax Super Tweeter

[Mr_Sukebe]

I DON'T BELIEVE IT!

That a tweeter costs so much

You don't believe that precision engineering is expensive (this is of course assuming that the ST in question has that)?
Have you looked at the price of Swiss watches recently?

 

[mid_gen]

You don't believe that precision engineering is expensive (this is of course assuming that the ST in question has that)?
Have you looked at the price of Swiss watches recently?

Precision engineering? It’s a tweeter mounted on a block of wood with a brass fixture. Nicely finished for sure.

Yes you’ll be paying for UK wages and economies of very small scale, but to pretend that the majority of that £3.5k isn’t simply luxury tax is laughable.

I’m not averse to spanking money on stuff like this myself occasionally but I don’t kid myself that it doesn’t have a gigantic margin on it.

 

[Admetos]

Precision engineering? It’s a tweeter mounted on a block of wood with a brass fixture. Nicely finished for sure.

Yes you’ll be paying for UK wages and economies of very small scale, but to pretend that the majority of that £3.5k isn’t simply luxury tax is laughable.

I’m not averse to spanking money on stuff like this myself occasionally but I don’t kid myself that it doesn’t have a gigantic margin on it.

The real walnut wooden case is in finished sections, with a metal base for structure.

Fyne Audio make speakers retailing up to £39k (the F1-12S), this SuperTrax has to be good enough quality to match these.

If I ever upgraded.my f502sp's to say f702sp's I can move them to those speakers. In this sense they are an end game item.

If anyone is wondering I paid £1600 for them, I consider that a good price as the old Tannoy Super tweeters are fetching more on eBay, and these are better.

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Precision engineering? It’s a tweeter mounted on a block of wood with a brass fixture. Nicely finished for sure.

Yes you’ll be paying for UK wages and economies of very small scale, but to pretend that the majority of that £3.5k isn’t simply luxury tax is laughable.

I’m not averse to spanking money on stuff like this myself occasionally but I don’t kid myself that it doesn’t have a gigantic margin on it.

I'm not trying to deny there's probably a hefty markup, but that's the reality of many products, whether you're talking about bread or Swiss watches.

 

[ninjag]

Would production numbers also have an impact on price?

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Would production numbers also have an impact on price?

Most probably, as that means spreading the costs of design, development, testing, preparing for production etc, over a smaller number of sales.

 

[hornetstinger]

Probably sold less than 100 worldwide.

Compared to tens of thousands of Fyne F300i

 

[Admetos]

Probably sold less than 100 worldwide.

Compared to tens of thousands of Fyne F300i

I spoke to Peter Tyson around two months ago about SuperTrax, they said there was around a one month delay on them. Fyne Audio they moved to a bigger factory as they are struggling with demand. The S-Trax the first batch has also sold out

I was very lucky finding some ex-demo ones, the ones I purchased are the only ones I've seen for sale not new.