Cytocycle, I buy the concept of the statement piece, but I don't buy the trickle-down-technology theory in the case of the CD player. I maintain all parts installed into CD players are sourced from common electronics suppliers. Yes, some of the parts are more esoteric than others, but a manufacturer selling a handful of $20,000 players simply doesn't have the economy of scale to have proprietary parts manufactured. Now, I would agree with the trickle down theory if Sony was making such a player...and I suppose that the uber expensive Esoteric players fall into this category since they are made by Teac (yes?).
What makes a $20,000 cd player cost 20,000?
Hi,
Listened to a Linn Sondeck CD12 (sp?) a few years back and the thing amazed me.
Was expecting that digital player development would continue to progress and that this level of performance would become available in the 2-5,000 range. It appears to me that redbook cd player development has stagnated, so I wanted to run a couple questions by for a sanity check.
1. Is there anything in the design or manufacture of top notch cd players that neccessarily results in stratospheric production costs?
2. Has anything come out in the last two or three years that really struck you as raising the bar in the price to performace ratio?
Happy listening.
Listened to a Linn Sondeck CD12 (sp?) a few years back and the thing amazed me.
Was expecting that digital player development would continue to progress and that this level of performance would become available in the 2-5,000 range. It appears to me that redbook cd player development has stagnated, so I wanted to run a couple questions by for a sanity check.
1. Is there anything in the design or manufacture of top notch cd players that neccessarily results in stratospheric production costs?
2. Has anything come out in the last two or three years that really struck you as raising the bar in the price to performace ratio?
Happy listening.
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