I think the Lore's were a great deal. I'm getting into woodworking and one of my upcoming projects is a speaker build. Considering the time and equipment needed to build the cabinets for the Lore's and cost of the materials $1000 for the pair is a great deal. I opened them up and checked out the speaker and crossover. The woofers look to be Eminence B102's that are $90 a piece at Parts Express and the tweeters are Audax Gold Dome tweeters that are $115.75 each at Madisound. That's over $400 in speakers alone then you've got mdf, paint, binding posts, crossover parts (looks like he builds the crossovers himself with 2 resistors, 3 caps, and 2 coils), speaker wire, damping material, cabinet spikes and threaded inserts, etc. On top of that the shipping boxes were customized for these speakers. After he pays labor for some help I don't see how he makes any money. I could spend over $600 in parts just trying to build a similar pair and wouldn't come close to the quality of his cabinet construction. The speakers are paired with an old powered Cerwin Vega sub to handle all frequencies under 50Hz. The setup is really dynamic for pop, rock, and hip-hop music. I'm really thinking about a set of Maggies for acoustic, classical, and jazz.
