I built my first home on the side while working a full time job and built or helped build a few since. When you consider the amount of labor, materials and hoops to jump through it takes to build a nice house, it bothers me not at all, that someone can’t stay in business building and trying to sell audio equipment for hundreds of thousands of dollars. When I see cables and cords selling for thousands of dollars, and think how ridiculous, I’m reminded that not long ago someone taped a banana to a wall, called it art and someone bought it for two million dollars. So whatever you can get away with I guess, but some of us still live in the real world.
The death of ultra hiend audio
Verity and DarTzeel last year, now MBL, ultra high end audio manufacturers are facing their demise and they have nobody but themselves to blame. What do these companies have in common: too much investment in creating the very best and when that fails raising their prices bottom up to recover their losses and inevitably charging 2x what the same product cost just a few years ago. Ego, greed and poor management can only result in one thing!