If you were to point those similarities to their market, they will rapidly point to you that Wilson will customize the drivers and the amp to their very strict specifications (of which you
cannot know anything). If you were to measure this $8000 box and compare its output to , say, a Monoprice THX 10 inches, they , again will tell you that measurements do not tell the whole story. You can't measure PRaT or organic(-ality?) or the depth of the soundstage that the Loke will impart to the reproduction... etc...
They are not alone in doing such ... This is common in High End Audio. This thread from ASR from
@elberoth, who unfortunately hasn't posted here for a while:
Those of you who have been in this hobby since the 80-90s, probably remember the company called Barclay Digital. They used to make probably the most expensive CD transports of the era, costing up to $30.000. $30.000 maybe not be shocking today, but back in the 90's ... that was over twice the...
www.audiosciencereview.com
Let me be clear and remind people that, a CD
Transport is only to spin the CD. You need an external DAC to plug it to an Amp. Thus the Barclay F-1, was nothing else than a not even customized $300 Marantx CD player... but remember the player portion was removed and the digital sent out on a RCA or Toslink to use with an external DAC. The Cabernet F1 cost in the 1990's $30,000. Adjusted for inflation that would be about $55,000.oo .. No typo Fitttty
D) figh....
Thousands (!!!) US Dollars for just spinning a CD... The same thing a $20 CD-ROM drive does reliably in a PC or laptop ...
Peace