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In Reply to: RE: Why not? posted by genungo on June 22, 2015 at 07:28:24
I can't imagine anyone spending $28,000 on a tone arm. I don't even know anyone who's spent $2,800 on a tone arm. But the numbers are intriguing. If just 1 percent of Stereophile's subscribers (72,159 June 2013) bought an SAT at $28,000, that would represent revenue of $2.02 million. If the other 99 percent spent $2800 on a tone arm, that would be only $2 million.
But why is my subscription subsidizing a "review" for something I or 99 percent of the reader base would never buy?
I just wish reviewers used more common sense when picking products to review - and take serious the responsibility to question all attributes of product - including the pricing.
Maybe a zeolot like Michael Fremer could even ask what's making the slew of re-issue LPs so expensive. Maybe why something like Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers The Big Beat is listed for something north of $34 an LP.
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I certainly can't imagine buying them either, but there's no reason why uber-expensive components shouldn't be there for those who can afford them.I think that the ultra high-end stuff is (was?) made mostly to show the world what the manufacturer can do when all cost restraints are removed. "High-end" helps generate excitement. It helps in research and development. It helps create "trickle-down" technology that, in turn, often helps improve performance in a company's more affordable designs.
Other theories about the relative importance of ultra high-end audio also exist. One such theory proposes that the rise of "ultra high-end" audio is evidence that audio manufacturers have been feeling more and more desperate, perhaps literally breathing their last dying gasps of air in a marketplace that is moving away from traditional hifi playback.
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never achieve absolute polarity.And the closer you get to HEA the more phase shift you get between the two.
What continues to make each next batch of LPs so expensive?
They sell. With many titles, production can't keep up with demand.
Dollars drive this business just like any other, no matter what percentage they are aiming for.Why would MF question it? When was the last time HE had to buy a new LP release?
(And he's a nice guy and buys used LPs, but that's a separate issue)
It'd be grand if reviewer's took a bit more responsibility in their approach but that doesn't seem likely to happen.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
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