Last year, I auditioned numerous speakers before ordering and picking up my Axioms and purchasing a Paradigm sub locally. One pair of tower speakers(WWMT) I checked out was from a relatively new Canadian company based here in Ontario(I'll keep their name quiet). Anyhow, they weren't necessarily good/bad sounding, just nothing particularily special...lacked some clarity and detail imo, although they were finished extremely well and looked very attractive. Now, the dealer offered me a PAIR of these towers for $399.00(1 year ago), I was tempted but didn't bite because they didn't quite do it for me. The other day I saw the same speakers for sale at $1199.00!! This markup just seems awfully excessive to me...this is kind of what we were talking about on the other thread about walkin retailers vs Axioms business model. Not asking a question here persay, but is this kind of markup for real in the audio realm? comments...
