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In Reply to: Total disconnect between price and quality posted by ruxtonvet on April 14, 2015 at 11:34:32:
There are a couple areas where people need to be aware. One is preamps. $4500, little printed circuit board, one or two tubes, transformer is a little C core, not a toroid, chip for a volume control, cheap cheap cheap remote, and bad engineering to boot.
People need to ignore the BS. Look at real things that are tangible. I see descriptions saying preamps have "Tubes running in Class A with DC filaments" as if that's a "feature". Every tube preamp has that.
Use Google Images to look inside and see what's under the hood. Weight absolutely has a direct relation to how much a product should be priced at. Everything looks good fro the outside. Stick to tangible facts.
They are killing the goose that laid the golden egg. It's really maddening to me. This is the way it should be: Look at the top of the line products from 1985, and take a count of the parts they use, the number of tubes, assembly techniques (point to point or PCB) and weight. Adjust for inflation. If you do that with a few brands it's eye opening.
I think that companies charge as much as they can without slowing sales too much. Prices are really arbitrary in many ways. Not all, but many. You need to amortize engineering hours, and the cost for metalwork. Those are the two largest costs.
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Follow Ups
- I agree...it's getting abusive. Use Google Images and weight - Kevin Deal 12:03:08 04/18/15 (2)
- RE: I agree...it's getting abusive. Use Google Images and weight - BillH 08:39:21 06/12/15 (0)
- RE: I agree...it's getting abusive. Use Google Images and weight - Bill Bond 21:21:46 06/11/15 (0)
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