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They should charge more for it…

The Absolute Sound magazine just elected the new Wilson Benesch GMT one turntable as their turntable of the year…and awarded it as such.

In the mini review of the table, the author writes, you know something is up when a competitor states..“ they should charge more for it”. Yet, the table under consideration is priced at a measly $302k! Yes folks, more than a quarter of a million dollars! Yet we are being lead to believe that this product is maybe underpriced? 
Interesting attitudes prevailing in high end audio reviewing these days…

Perhaps it is under priced, as maybe it could sell for millions of dollars…to the right audiophile consumers? The Absolute sound reviewer, and lately most audio reviewers, seem to think that any price asked is fine, so long as the piece basically delivers the goods. Are they correct?

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Besides the fact that I've stopped paying attention to the absolute sounds products of the year selections, I think most of these expensive turntables look like Frankenstein monstrosities.

 

Besides the fact that I've stopped paying attention to the Absolute Sounds products of the year selections, I think most of these expensive turntables look like Frankenstein monstrosities.

 

it is much harder to build something that performs well that is of a simple and elegant design, than something where you need to have all kinds of parts rotating and flying around to make it work the way you intend it to.

 

It's a personal reflection, of course, as are all my comments. :-)

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