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RE: Why should one buy a DAC?

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"I think that diminishing return curves exist for many consumer products classes. A $17k Honda Civic can provide the basic transportation needs of most people, and do so reliably, economically, and even with a small dash of fun. So, why is there a market for a $100k Porche, or a $300k Ferrari, or a $1M Bugatti? What high-end audio and high-end automobiles have in common is that they both deliver a strong emotional, even spiritual, benefit/reward to their consumers. When you're talking about emotional benefits, price value claculations often loose their moorings."

I read somewhere this past year that rock n roll singer Steven Tyler bought (a custom built) what was purported to be fastest (at 0-60 specifically) sports car (at least at the time he bought it). I mention this because, yes there is for some a very emotional (psychological) desire to have the biggest/fastest/most expensive, etc. product they can afford. I suspect Steven Tyler's personality did or still does tend toward the extreme and that goes a ways in explaining his desire to have such an automobile, whereas the personality/temperment of a wealthy Intel engineer/inventor might be perfectly content driving a Honda Accord, but of course not all techies are so modest in their choice of personal transportation - Larry Ellison and Paul Allen come to mind.


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