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RE: Looking to S'phile's Rec. Comps. for help choosing preamps to audition/buy?

"The pricing of so much of high end audio equipment on the market today is an utter FRAUD and everybody knows it (including you I would imagine)."

Fraud? Not really, but it's mostly just a marketing tool. In home audio "high end" refers to price, not performance. The performance can vary all over the spectrum from supurb to sub-par but the price has to be high or it's simply not "high end". It may "punch above it's weight" or be good sounding "mid-fi" but that's about it. By the way, the price may be reasonable considering the CTM (cost to manufacture) but that's after the CTM is bloated with bling.

Now, is it a good or bad thing to sell stuff that where a significant part of the value is inflating a limp ego? Who knows? But it is a long human tradition...

Rick


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