Schubert wrote: 'Certainly a factor Dave, but would it be one if the chumps didn't pay him?'
Whats something worth? What you can get someone to pay.
One way to get easy money is to be the distributor for some high end bit of gear. You wont get it from the manufacturer because he has a distributor and says go to him. He may not even stock the bit of gear and simply gets it in as required and pockets the money. Anything goes wrong - he ships it back to the maker.
As a distributor he should be earning the commission etc by marketing it and providing after sales service. If he does that then that's what you are paying for - and it can be quite substantial. If not then its money for jam. You as a consumer must decide for yourself if you want to pay that for it. Even if he is doing what a distributor should be doing you must decide do I want to pay that for it.
I don't know what margin Dynaudio distributors get but I do know from some reliable sources for Magico the cost is 9 times the parts used. I hear when a new speaker was released in Singapore a Champagne and Caviar breakfast was held to celebrate it - and it was not cheap stuff - it was Bollinger. Guess who pays for that - you the consumer. Only you can decide if that's what you want to buy into - personally it makes me barf and I simply wont have anything to do with products like that - but that's just me. Obviously Magico is still in business so there are plenty of people happy with that sort of thing - or, possibly a lot more likely, don't realize whats really going on.
Thanks
Bill
Whats something worth? What you can get someone to pay.
One way to get easy money is to be the distributor for some high end bit of gear. You wont get it from the manufacturer because he has a distributor and says go to him. He may not even stock the bit of gear and simply gets it in as required and pockets the money. Anything goes wrong - he ships it back to the maker.
As a distributor he should be earning the commission etc by marketing it and providing after sales service. If he does that then that's what you are paying for - and it can be quite substantial. If not then its money for jam. You as a consumer must decide for yourself if you want to pay that for it. Even if he is doing what a distributor should be doing you must decide do I want to pay that for it.
I don't know what margin Dynaudio distributors get but I do know from some reliable sources for Magico the cost is 9 times the parts used. I hear when a new speaker was released in Singapore a Champagne and Caviar breakfast was held to celebrate it - and it was not cheap stuff - it was Bollinger. Guess who pays for that - you the consumer. Only you can decide if that's what you want to buy into - personally it makes me barf and I simply wont have anything to do with products like that - but that's just me. Obviously Magico is still in business so there are plenty of people happy with that sort of thing - or, possibly a lot more likely, don't realize whats really going on.
Thanks
Bill