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In Reply to: RE: Amarra Offer posted by Mercman on July 19, 2012 at 17:36:03
It seems to me that it is not the amount you spent of your free will that matters here.
Rather, it is how many had taken up the $1500 spend based on your enthusiastic reviews.
As I have said to you a number of times, it is the longer assessments in audio that matters, and not shorter term exposure to a new sonic signature.
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It is how many had taken up the $995 spend based on your enthusiastic reviews that affects readers here.
My review was merely a starting point Fred. People were able to try the program on a trial basis and determine for themselves if it was worth purchasing.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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very subjective
In your opinion how much pleasure must one get to justify spending $1,000?
If it was the best thing going at the time was it foolish to buy it if he got pleasure from it? Even if it was a piece of crap if he enjoyed it who are you to judge how foolish it was?
It is a personal decision. Calling it foolish projects your value system on others and I don't think any of us has the right to do that when it comes to how we choose to spend our disposable income.
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My first (IBM) PC cost me ~$4000. I guess I was foolish back then. ;-)
I was one of those who called the pricing "foolish". It was not necessary to compare $1000 with some subjective amount of "pleasure". I considered it foolish because inevitably the price would come down and/or a competitor would appear that would have an inexpensive product that provided similar or greater pleasure. And furthermore, this would happen soon, not the situation where one might spend thousands on a computer which gradually becomes obsolete over several years. In reaching my conclusion I also looked at what I had paid for audio software that cost roughly the same (or less) than the original price of Amarra. These programs contained an excellent sounding player as well as considerable additional functionality (e.g. iZotope RX Advanced). I also considered the availability of free player software for PCs that performed well (e.g. cPlay).
My comments are not directed at those inmates who think nothing about blowing $1000 on a night's pleasure. However, were I to find myself in such a situation I can think of ways to blow this money that would provide more pleasure.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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" I considered it foolish because "
That says it all.
You sound like my grandmother
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To Merc 1K is like 100 to normal people.
Its all relative.....
Dynobots Audio
Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
If only this was true :)
Spent $995. There was nothing wrong with the review at the time. In fact, Amarra 2.4.1 sounds pretty darn good. Not as good as Audirvana Plus Direct Mode / Integer for Lion. Also, I think the Amarra interface is poor.
Edits: 07/20/12
Of course you know better than that....and so do I.
Dynobots Audio
Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
it's only the dac that matters, not computer, not software.
Everthing matters.
I don't know about others here but my purchase decisions are not tremendously influenced by you or your reviews of various audio software. I simply appreciate the information you provide and as a grown up, it is up to me how I spend my money.
My main complaint with Amarra early on was their high price and very restrictive and archaic software protection scheme requiring a USB security dongle. The dongle alone was enough to steer me away and research other products. I believe they now use software based security on most of their software and have lowered their prices. But in my opinion, that's too little too late. Other more progressive and agile companies have taken a lot of their potential market share.
Just my 2-cents worth and thanks for the updates.
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