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With great plessure and a deserved sense of appreciation I opened today the Stereophile and learned Continuum turntable was pushed by Michael Fremer to the “Product of the year”. I would leave aside even theoretical bogusness of the “Product of the Year” concept. In the realm where the Stereophile’s Morons lives there is not rational, applied purpose, journalistic cogency besides developing some cheap taking point for marketing avenues. Anyhow, they do what they do but in context of the given thread that is something that I would like to note: the price of the Fremerized Stereophile.

Stereophile elected the Continuum TT’s as the “Product of 2006” without regard that Continuum was hit market in 2004-2005. But at that time the Stereophile’s marketing whores did not share the Continuum's profit destitution and therefore, according the Stereophile’s logic, the Continuum TT did not exist.

Whatever the Continuum system does sonicly irrelevant to the given context… but do you know what happen when the industry “embraced” the product? Yes, you right –the price! (A few days ago I observing the BS that the industry created around Kharma loudspeaker I desisted to write a little essays about “Kharma in America”, I will do it when I have time and it will have a lot of common with Continuum’s pricing policy)

So, what the Industry did with Continuum’ price?  In one of my posts above:

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=3108

I have mentioned that I was communicating with an "industry player" who was considering becoming the Continuum’s distributor before the Fremer’s crap hit the fan. That industry player was VERY pricey and he was not one of those “Internet discounting junkies”. So, during those times when he was contemplating to take Continuum on, the RETAIL price for the Continuum’s entire system meant to be $40.000.00 ….  and it is including all necessary markups. (I would like to keep the Continuum’s wholesale price confidential - it is solely their business). So, what happen next? The "Sunshine Fremer and Co." popped up in the picture and the Continuum “Product of 2006” was announced at $99.500.00…

Nope, people. It is not about just prize – it is about justice. A next year, the few pages of BS that Mr. Fremer has written in his publication, those pages cost you, a customer, $60.500.00. It is  $60.500.00 that is taken out of each Continuum turntable and thay are $60.500.00 that do not worth anything.

Anyhow, as the result, the BS about Continuum is keep spinning, spinning, and spinning… this time at the right speed.  Defiantly it WAS the Stereophile’s “Accomplishment of the Year”

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