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In the Forum: Audio News
In the Thread: How the things are getting so much out of hands?
Post Subject: My point....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/14/2020
 ArmAlex wrote:
This situation isn't different in other High End products- I mean to convince people with big pockets to pay for high priced things. For example in car industry not everybody who buys a Ferrari, Lambo, Porcshe or any other high performance car is Lewis Hamilton. Of course there is a catch, those cars when/if asked can deliver promised performance. This is not true in audio's case.
It is fashionable to compare the high-end audio with high performing cars but there is a very fundamental difference between them. The cars are getting better each year. No matter how you look and what price range you are in it does makes sense each 3 years to change the cars, partially because they got worn and partly because the newer cars are better by design and can deliver very much serviceable benefits. The new loudspeakers are not. As you have a sensibly made and installed loudspeaker then there is nothing that you can get in few years that would make it better for you unless you go for larger model or different topology. The loudspeaker change is reasonable only as the listening preference is changed or evolved, which is NOT why people change loudspeakers in audio. The matching of loudspeaker performance to the personal listening preferences is not a subject of audio industry awareness, I do not remember any single  audio review or marketing campaign that ever look into in the direction of personal satisfaction and addressing personal listing objectives. What we have instead is the industry pimps entrenching forged objectives into perspective customer’s brain in order to push monthly new audio products. Ask any big makers and they will tell you that as a new model is released then they unleash the whole marketing and distribution firestorm to drive the former models out of circulation. It does not happens in audio industry as the cars age and replaced gracefully and to much less degree are subjects of empty marketing and manufactured eagerness. A loudspeakers today and 30 years back serves the very same purpose and deliver the very same benefits of its owner. I am OK with the fact that some of the items are very expensive if they are unique in this performance. What I’m arguing is that $200K is quite expensive and to a degree unique price and I would be OK if some kind of exceptionally performing loudspeakers would cost as much. It is not the case here as that new Magico crap looks like was nominated even by the industry pimp and nothing remarkable but still good buy. If the same pimp would write about automobiles then it would sound like this: “This year Honda introduce new model Civic 2020 which has not as good gas manage, axillary amendments or conform to drive as  2019 but with price tag of $350K it is still a good choice if you love Toyota Corolla.” Ridicules? Well, it is exactly my point.

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