YES gordon they are not priced in the bargain basement but at least he is still in business so he must be charging enough to cover overheads etc. When I was a small time manufacture I was charging mates rates and not earning my main income from this source and I am no longer in business.
The stands look to be supporting a spiffing veneer these days and they are functional as opposed to decrotive. You pays yer money and maker yer choice. Russ has had some good sounding systems over the years and considering he is not Naim or Linn has been one of the corner stones of the British cottage industry looking after the audio afflicted druggies throught their wallets. Other notables are Avondale Audio and Graham Nalty, I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of presently; Hifi collective is a fairly recent event in compariosn.
There are some Aussie hifi chaps too, mostly in Melbourne or the East coast but they don't know how to pack
and I am really tempted to name names after receiving yet another 'ooops I droopped it and the packing is sooo crap my 3 year old daughter could do better types.
If people here wish to stay in business thye need to learn how to pack properly. OK about to loose the plot again and start a rant on the useless tossers who charge you for packing and then blame it on some one else..........arggggggggggggggggh if only Perth had a bigger hifi community and outlets.
Back onto Corian....................there was one UK company who built corian enclosures for Tannoy 15's, they came and went almost as quick, a few hifi manufactures offered it as an additional purchase for front facia plates but further than this I can't think of any other company who has chosen to stay with corian probably because it's made under license and it has a few more years to run it's just not cost effective. I love some of the 'groovy colours' that it comes in, pretty 'out there' in a world of black black and black, where's the lovely Marantz gold, pretty rare, silver aluminium has made a bit of a comeback now cnc maching prices have dropped and on the rear occassion, wooden boxes for smaller companies prevail but at cottage industry pricing. I see there are some keen prices on offer from China on some good looking enclosures, some of which are a carbon copy of the AR gear...............And Corian......well it's not used by most, an inert resin composite with fragments of rock is still too damn expensive for all but the little ladies in their kitchens and hospitals for walls which can be chemically cleaned to keep the bugs almost at bay.