why do companies do this?

[Immacomputer 10+ year member]

The calls I'm making are based around what I have seen. How many readily available prefab enclosures do you know of that have 6" aeros on them? I've seen tons with 4" aeros and while I don't know how many were made by the company that makes precision ports, I do see many more 4" than 6". The cases where 4" ports are present, they are there because that is what is needed for the application and the 6" would be over kill.

While I am assuming, it's still very visible in the market that there are not a lot of pre-fab enclosures that would require a 6" aero port and if they put one in, it would probably increase the size of the enclosure to arrive at the same tuning. That makes the package larger than desired and not many people like huge enclosures sitting in their house/car/wherever.

You can disagree all you want but you have said it yourself that in materials, it costs more to produce 4" aeros than 6" aeros. Your reasoning is that there are stupid people running the company. My argument is that there isn't as much of a market for 6" aeros compared to 4". Mass production drives prices down while limited production drives prices up. You tell me which argument is more logical?

Like it or not, the people running the company probably know way more about business than we do.

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

The calls I'm making are based around what I have seen. How many readily available prefab enclosures do you know of that have 6" aeros on them? I've seen tons with 4" aeros and while I don't know how many were made by the company that makes precision ports, I do see many more 4" than 6". The cases where 4" ports are present, they are there because that is what is needed for the application and the 6" would be over kill.
While I am assuming, it's still very visible in the market that there are not a lot of pre-fab enclosures that would require a 6" aero port and if they put one in, it would probably increase the size of the enclosure to arrive at the same tuning. That makes the package larger than desired and not many people like huge enclosures sitting in their house/car/wherever.

You can disagree all you want but you have said it yourself that in materials, it costs more to produce 4" aeros than 6" aeros. Your reasoning is that there are stupid people running the company. My argument is that there isn't as much of a market for 6" aeros compared to 4". Mass production drives prices down while limited production drives prices up. You tell me which argument is more logical?

Like it or not, the people running the company probably know way more about business than we do.

i think you misunderstood me. in that post i was referring to us, as the consumer that are "stupid", because we buy 1 6" port when you can get the same performance for $10 less. not the company. i mean the company is still around for a reason, they obviously have found something that works, but it just doesnt make sense in my head, however it doesnt stop me from agreeing with your last sentence //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif.

but heres some of what has got me thinking. just a quick look in winisd shows that in 6^3ft @ 35hz

2 4" ports = 6.25"

1 6" port = 5.93"

so in all reality we are only talking about 1/4" of an inch or so, hardly something that would make a difference in box design (unless of course you're working with a super narrow box, like a truck box and cant fit a 6" in width wise), but for some reason it means charging more for the 6" port. performance doesnt change though.

i can understand mass production driving costs down but what i dont understand is why even buy/make the machinery required to make the 6" ports if they dont sell well? it just drives costs up, and then makes people want to buy them even less. and then when people buy them even less, the price goes up again, and so on. its a lot like the "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" scenario, if that makes sense.

its just my opinion that if you're gonna invest in the equipment to make the 6", put them at a competitive price, so that they, as well as the 4" would sell equally well depending on the requirements for the alignment.

just my opinion. as you can tell im not familiar with business at all. im just using what i think makes sense to me. i didnt mean to come off as hostile in my other posts btw.