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In the Thread: Prices in High-End Audio.

Post Subject: Congrats IIPosted by Stitch on: 1/19/2014

Romy the Cat wrote:

Hm,… and how many $90.000 screwdrivers that do not perform as good as $9 screwdrivers you think you will be able to sell? In the audio industry however it works wonderfully. There were many examples when audio products begin to sell ONLY price went up many times over. So, effectively the audio industry converted high end audio concept into high end price point. The fact that you find my analogy as dumbest makes me very proud – you have learns something important over the last 365 days of your life.

The best example is analog. Expensive Digital is no longer interesting (especially Transports) and I can see much more new Turntables / Arms / Phonostages in every show. That's ok, but when you check them (the customer, but most are even too stupid for that) you can detect that most turntables are not able to hold proper speed, 33,3 or 45 rpm. They drift seriously. No reviewer checks these items for that (or rumble, or measuring the belts for specs and so on and on and on). Instead you see, there are endless customers out there who want to spend 30k, they want to spend so much be get acceptance as an serious audiophile or they do it because their cheapest cable is 8K..... and when someone writes about that, he will be shot at once from the audiophile Fangroup who found a place in the Importers / Dealers backside in the hope to get a better pricing or because they like each other so much... but the real reason at the end of the day is of course, they are afraid that the public will get that information which ruins their resale. And it hurts their Ego of course.

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