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i started this thread b/c i was offered a chance to be first in my market to offer the dutch. i do not try to stock passive speakers or compete in that saturated market. i am trying to innovate in a new market, with new kinds of buyers. in austin, that is tech people, not traditional velvet quilted smoking jacket audiophiles with spinning vinyl. it is also me. i love simplification through digital. i bought a sony cdp-101 in 1983 when i was 18 and never looked back. currently, my whole rig is concealed in a closet and controlled with IR via relays, and the fewer black boxes i have in there, the happier i am.
btw, my linkwitz orions, now 12 years old, would be priced at least as much as the dutch 8c when amps and external crossover are added in. they are fantastic, but big, and the amps run hot hot hot.
i reached out to keith before picking up this line, and it is clear he is passionate and sincere. it is not just profit. it is a happy mix of profit and passion, which is why people will buy from people like keith - and me too, i hope. to the same point, i love writing appeal briefs, and i am passionate about my legal writing, but i also expect to be paid for the passion i bring to my work. i “sell” that passion, and my clients are willing buyers. my product speaks for itself.
i hope the same will be true for the dutch speakers. btw, the margins are not what one forum member suggested, and the process of properly demonstrating them and helping a customer with them will take real time, experience, and salesmanship which the margin, such as it is, covers just about right. i personally would never consider selling $100,000 wilsons because i don’t have any passion for them, but then, wilson would not want me selling their speakers anyhow. i am sympatico with dutch and hope to spread the word and the new variety of product.
btw, my linkwitz orions, now 12 years old, would be priced at least as much as the dutch 8c when amps and external crossover are added in. they are fantastic, but big, and the amps run hot hot hot.
i reached out to keith before picking up this line, and it is clear he is passionate and sincere. it is not just profit. it is a happy mix of profit and passion, which is why people will buy from people like keith - and me too, i hope. to the same point, i love writing appeal briefs, and i am passionate about my legal writing, but i also expect to be paid for the passion i bring to my work. i “sell” that passion, and my clients are willing buyers. my product speaks for itself.
i hope the same will be true for the dutch speakers. btw, the margins are not what one forum member suggested, and the process of properly demonstrating them and helping a customer with them will take real time, experience, and salesmanship which the margin, such as it is, covers just about right. i personally would never consider selling $100,000 wilsons because i don’t have any passion for them, but then, wilson would not want me selling their speakers anyhow. i am sympatico with dutch and hope to spread the word and the new variety of product.