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In the Thread: How would you handle it?
Post Subject: ValuePosted by Paul S on: 7/22/2013
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Well, de Charlus, it's one thing to pay the going rate for excellence if one can afford it. It is another thing entirely to simply jump on a bandwagon (or corner the bandwagon market) because one can afford it. Wine or audio (or bespoke shoes, for that matter), there will always be people with more money than taste, and this in itself becomes a driver for a certain part of any given "market" that is quite attuned to the dynamics of this phenomenon. Too damn bad, on the one hand; I may never get to enjoy La Tache again. OTOH, I occasionally derive a certain grim satisfaction when people throw ridiculous sums at things they want for "the wrong reasons".
Taking your point directly for a moment, it does seem on the face of it that winemakers self-regulate better than audio "manufacturers". But I wonder if this has anything to do with Robert Parker and Allen Meadows, vs. Michael Fremer, JonaTin, et al.
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