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I just came across this video from Jason Stoddard at Schitt. I am impressed with the company's ethos and products - especially their high value. That said I was not sympathetic to hear how the Texas freeze inconvenienced his purchase of another house, told while he drank from a $300 dollar bottle of wine. I don't begrudge him either, I know he's worked super hard to build the company, but wonder is this a bit of a PR faux pas considering the majority of his customers are not super wealthy?13DoW
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Look at all those $300 bottles arranged in the rack behind. Wonder if he attended that great wine party the Democratic President aspirant Buttigieg attended. Well, shows Schiit is a classy product, locally made.Hopefully that was a California wine.
Bill
A $500 preamp? A $2000 preamp? A $10,000 preamp?If someone can afford a $1000 DAC or a $2500 DAC they probably can spring for a $300 bottle of wine every now and then.
He seems like a working man to me. I mean his wife came and picked him when he had car problems, not his employee or an employee of some associate.
Be happy for they guy.
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" If someone can afford a $1000 DAC ...they probably can spring for a $300 bottle of wine ..."
I personally can vouch for 'no'.
Dmitri Shostakovich
A $5K interconnect? I just bought a Schitt Modi 3+ and love the little thing.
Nt
Because he makes value oriented products, you want him to live his life that way? He is only allowed to drink Coors Light and Barefoot Merlot? I hope he doesn't drive anything more expensive than a used Honda or we are all offended?
I don't understand your issue...he saw a market segment that presented an opportunity and he and his partner worked to take advantage of it.
Oh no, I've read some of his blog (the early stuff about the start up phase is fascinating) and applaud what he's done. I watched a few more of those videos and, I think, the assumption is that all the Schiit fans know he's a wine buff and he' just sharing that with them. Now I know it is not just posing.
One of the videos features their digital designer who must be ex-CIA as Jason could not get him to talk about anything. Probably trained to withstand torture. But good for keep company IP secret.
13DoW
Lots of examples in the world of people who became very, very rich selling relatively inexpensive stuff instead of focusing on the fancy end of things.
- Sam Walton and his heirs, for example.
- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who brought computers to the ordinary consumer.
- Or, to go back more than a few years, William Wrigley who made his fortune selling chewing gum.
Not hard to find many more examples.
gift or not, is it ostentatious or pretentious to show that it's a $300 shafer hillside select or would it have been cooler to turn it around so no one will know (or care)? stoddard calls himself a wine, beer and car buff but he's no lebron.
I don't begrudge people that are successful enough to afford a second house either, but I certainly don't encourage it. Our planet is hurting because of human excess and we should be trying to minimize our impact. That said, we don't know if the house is a relatively small house that's well insulated and energy efficient. And I can see the advantages of having a house at both Schiit manufacturing locations. The wine may have been a gift from someone or a celebratory splurge. Still, your point is well taken in the context of how Schiit Audio is promoted.
Tom
... how does an expensive bottle of wine damage the planet more than an inexpensive one? The price of a wine depends on the location of the vinyard, the grapes used, the skill of the winemaker, and the reputation of the wine. None of those things require more resources of the planet to make an expensive wine versus a cheap one. In fact, the odds are that a cheap wine is more likely to involve chemicals for the vinyard and a more industrial setting for processing.
It is hardly the same as a rich person jetting around the world in their private plane using 200 or 300 gallons of jet fuel per hour.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. A modest second home to live in while conducting business at the new factory is one thing but I've resided in places that attract people who build what they call their "cabin in the woods" that are two, three, four (or more) times the size of any of the houses that I've ever lived in. That's not a cabin. I can only imagine what their primary home looks like. In my opinion that's excessive and isn't sustainable.
If Mr. Stoddard wants to enjoy a bottle of fine wine that's his business. I enjoy a good bottle of wine myself now and then, though not in the same league as that $300 bottle. It was probably outstanding.
Schiit are bringing up a new production line in Texas so I understand he'll be spending a lot more time there. It was actually the wine bottle that got me most - strategically displayed as if to send a message so I looked it up.
13DoW
Rolled a boatload of tubes through it over the last month, and one thing became clear and that was the intrinsic goodness of the Saga itself.
If I ever have to replace the power amp/phono stage, or if I decide to ditch all my Stax stuff and go back to conventional headphones, I'll definitely give Schiit first consideration.
But I refuse to make Schiit jokes.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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