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This subject of prices in High-End Audio is obviously endless. We can complain for years blaming the $80.000 for a pair of amplifiers,  $42.000 for DACs, $29.000 for phonocorrector, 125.000 for pair of loudspeakers,  $17.000 for CD transports, $16.000 for single interconnect, $50.000 turntables or $10.0000 for a cartridge. The most revolting in all that story that all those super expansive items do not deliver any superior result and anyone who have even very remote acquaintance about audio industry knows that there is no relations between the price tags in audio and the benefits that a consumer get from his/her audio equipment.

The myth and the practice of ultra high prices for NOTHING SPECIAL in High-End Audio have own resosns, own history and own rules of the engagement. I would like to initiate this thread and let myself (or whoever wish) to look at the pricing in High-End Audio slightly deeper, objectively and perhaps more realistically then a typical Hi-Fi bitching. I will upload more context in here when I get more time…

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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