glupson
Responses from glupson
| Why pay so much? I forgot what thread it was here on audiogon, but people were mentioning what you are asking for. A couple of hundred dollar amplifiers with lots of power and, allegedly, very good sound. It might have not been five channel, though. | |
| Why pay so much? "...and I’m assuming the speaker industry threatened them in to not doing it..."They got "backlash" from it, and wow...Remember, it was just your assumption, not the known fact, but you built your case on it. | |
| Why pay so much? "If people wouldn’t pay it, they’d drop to 500%."Every time I tried not to pay for something they did not lower the price. They simply did not give me what I wanted. | |
| Why pay so much? "...high end audio would be available to the $50,000 a year salesman who works 50+ hours a week, and who would love to listen to all the notes of the music, the "way music is supposed to be heard" in terms of notes, etc."That would depend on his o... | |
| Why pay so much? funaudiofun,I do not own an audio company.You can call people idiots, but not everyone can build a speaker in the garage. Many do not even have an interest in doing it to spite someone who is trying to make a living by producing something we can u... | |
| Why pay so much? funaudiofun,"If you asked people if they would be willing to get their wiring for 99% off? 99% of people would say the affirmative, H*** Yeah.""And the fact that people are willing to knock on doors to get these ridiculously priced wiring is the e... | |
| Why pay so much? Would the market shrink fro. 1,000+ companies to like 5 or 6?Would you really want that? How about shrinking from 5-6 to 1-2?"The cost to build a speaker is cheap..............but the best speakers in the world shouldn’t cost more than $3,500."Did... | |
| Why pay so much? If those companies close doors, where would the workers go?You are working with the premise that people who buy "expensive" cables do not want to pay. Some people do.Actually, I would bet that nobody who buys such cables minds paying for them. It ... | |
| Why pay so much? funaudiofun,"You think a cable sales person is trustworthy?"Being taken advantage of does not depend on some cable salesperson’s trustworthiness. It depends on buyer’s gullibility. Salesperson has relatively little to do with it.Back to your initi... | |
| Please Make Audiogon Cool "The future belongs to the polymath"If teenage behavior is anything to go by, future belongs to Instagram. | |
| Why pay so much? funaudiofun,$70 000 cables are an investment with much better return than $350 lattes. Cables are expected to last more than 200 days, assuming you drink just one coffee a day. If you invested in lattes, at the end of those 200 days, you would be ... | |
| Why pay so much? "...why pay up to $70,000 for speaker wire?"Just because one can."How do you guys let yourself taken advantage of?"How often are people who can afford $70 000 speaker cables actually taken advantage of? | |
| Please Make Audiogon Cool "I think we should take it easy on georgehifi.""Love you George..."It is a loving thread, indeed. From the very start. | |
| Why pay so much? "The good ones are typically worth every cent they charge."The good ones are always worth every cent they charge. However, it is just not that easy to pick the good ones from the bunch. | |
| Please Make Audiogon Cool georgehifi,Even if it is many many, we have to start with someone so why not you?So what is it that makes you so angry, or whatever word would fit better, on this thread?What is preventing you from simply not following/reading any of the erik_squi... |