Quote Originally Posted by poppachubby View Post
This guy posts at Audio Karma and I tend to believe what he says. Sorry but DIY is totally the way to go, and I include flatpack assembly in that category. For whatever a person lacks in skills, the solutions are available. Plenty of designs are available online from extremely intelligent DIY'ers. With simple cuts, most hardware stores will do this as part of the purchase. For anything difficult, cuts, fit or finish, a pro could be consulted. I can almost guarantee that the cost will still be competitive.

Jazzman's DIY Electrostatic Loudspeaker Page
Those sure are some purdy speakers but...

Most people do not have the space or proper tools to put something like that together.

And if I put the same hourly rate of my day job, on a DIY job like that, it would probably cost me more.