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In the Thread: Shall quality-price be reversed?

Post Subject: There are a lot of people that use price already.....Posted by rowuk on: 7/27/2014

I can't speak about the most expensive audio - I don't have the means or experience. I do play trumpet however and there is a similar situation:

My trumpet cost $13,500. Professional trumpets usually have prices between $3,000 and 6,000. Comments from those that have never played my brand of trumpet range from - "it must play itself" to "no trumpet could be possibly worth that money". Those that have experience with it have different responses - from "it didn't work for me" to "I wouldn't own anything else". I would have payed considerably more if necessary for what I got.

The perceived value in audio works the other way now. The Mike Fremers/Johnathan Valins place a "value" on what they heard and the rest are expected to believe it. Average listeners don't (can't) evaluate what they hear, so it remains with what they can afford and has the least guilty conscience.

Now if an eBay auction were the only way to buy this stuff, then we would have a dynamic view of what people think something is worth. We would have attempts at champagne taste on a beer budget.

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