I suspect the biggest difference would be how it's built not what they use. With Bose you pay for engineering and workmanship and of course name. The parts they use are actually pretty cheaply acquired
Good chance of it. Things like solder joints and wiring would be of a much better quality in the Bose unit
In the products we make in my day job, we use PVC, TPU, and polyurethane webbing. If you google costs of those things, you can find companies offering this stuff for pennies on the dollar vs what we pay quality manufacturers to make our raw materials. When you don’t know anything about these materials, looking at them would be hard to tell the difference. But we know there’s a dramatic difference in performance
But I would agree that sometimes the cost of a good part probably isn’t much more expensive than the cost of a cheaper part . In addition to the soldering and wiring you mentioned, the QC of the parts and then the QC of the assembled parts will drive up the cost to quality parts and merchandise. And all of the engineering that goes into a quality piece Is more expensive as well.
So when you have a just a slightly cheaper part with no QC, less skilled and cheaper assembly, no QC for that assembly,
I had a guy recently say, I’m sorry, but your material is just webbing with TPU on it. I don’t really see why we should pay extra just to have it made in the USA. I said I totally agree that he shouldn’t pay more just to have it made here. You should pay more because it will work better for you, your customers will pay more for it and help you to get repeat customers. Leather comes mainly from cows. Why is there very cheap leather and some leather very expensive? It’s just cows. He hasn’t bought yet, but not everyone is my customer