Thank you for your suggestions. In my case, in order for my enclosure cost (and therefore the selling price) to come appreciably, I need to have my plywood cut locally and then assemble & paint the cabinets myself. So changes that still require the cabinets to be built elsewhere don't address my root problem. If I go full-on utilitarian finish,
then I can bring costs down considerably.
I tried 3-D printing and the results definitely qualified as "utilitarian" at best; actually we did not end up with something that was even useable. 3D printing even with chemical smoothing of the surface was something I think anyone would actually like the looks of. Imo the turned wooden horns are superior all around.
That being said, if I'm going "utilitarian finish" to keep costs reasonable, my first such speaker will use an off-the-shelf horn, probably a plastic one. While it is possible that I may one day do a utilitarian finish speaker with the round wooden horn, that's not my intention at this time.
Yes it is. If I can figure out how to make it work, I may offer the cloth-wrap as an option. Thank you
@MarkS! My speakers are unusually "busy" on the back, with at least one fairly large control panel and multiple pluggable ports in addition to the imputs, so they are not inherently cloth-wrap-friendly:
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This is the most likely scenario, though my marketing department will probably stick with the "premium" finish as the "standard", and then the utilitarian finish would be the cost-saving option. Same thing, just different wording.