Modern Linestages

charles1dad... I apologize if my post came across as someone here suggesting that companies should not make a profit. I meant it as a general statement as it has been suggested (indirectly) in various threads over the years that companies should not use the excuse of recovering R&D for thier pricing.

It was simply refreshing to see grannyring's post.

Again, my apologies.

Thank you Grannyring for your post on 8-27 where you go through some of the cost of running a company and developing upper end products.

Our Purity Audio Design linestage was reviewed in that same Absolute Sound issue as the Constellation pieces. While this was not an inexpensive linestage, we have other models above this.

We have spent the last several years developing this line and this kind of R&D is not even close to being cheap. Overhead of running such a company is is not small and you still have to pay the bills even during the R&D stages.

Bottom line is that it is still a business. The price of products is based on many things (not only the cost of parts used) and since you did such a good job of going through most of them in your post, it will save space in this post.

I still don't understand those who do not think companies should make any profit. I'm sure they don't go to work everyday and work for free.