Say what you want about spooky but

I don't think it's news to anyone in the know at Stern that they're using cheap components, but the games are still selling, so why reduce their profit margin? Those that care will upgrade the speakers, and the vast majority won't. If it's someone's pet issue it might get addressed-apparently we got the actual PF support rails back in pros (instead of the pegs) because of Keith Elwin, so if someone really cared about speaker upgrades, then that might happen, although probably at the cost of something else in the BOM. Personally, I think speakers are easy enough to upgrade that I'd rather see the money spent on things like PF mechs than bling.