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In Reply to: RE: ...down the garden path. posted by Pandro on January 02, 2008 at 13:32:31
<< the market will ultimately find its own leveling point >>
Exactly.
The customer that spends $150 for an Oppo player, by and large doesn't give two figs for hi-resolution sound. On the other hand, audiophiles do care about sound quality. There are maybe 250,000 audiophiles in the US and maybe one or two million of those world wide. This literally represents around 0.1% of the total music buying public.
For a specialty audio company to make a CD player, the entry point is around $1000 if you make it in China. Double that for production in the US or Europe. And double that again for a DVD player. If you think I'm "promoting my own agenda", please try and find some well known brands that break these rules of thumb by a significant amount.
The bottom line is that higher performance at a higher price (such as 96/24 DVD-V, both discs and hardware) is NOT a formula for mass-market success. If it were, Ferrari would be the largest car company in the world. Instead things like 96/24 DVD-V (both discs and hardware) are specialty niche products and always will be. Sorry, that's just basic economics.
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