They are absolutely correct. If you think about it, anyone who could afford a $300k turntable can easily afford a $500k turntable. So maybe the manufacturer should have asked $500k for it. Why not? It would not make any less sense. If his audience is the billionaire class, we are talking about pennies for them. Money has become so highly concentrated that it’s hard to wrap your head around the meaning of wealthy anymore. There are around 800 billionaires in America alone. These products are not intended for regular working folks. Ponder this for a second: 1 billion is 1000 millions.
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?