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Audio Research discontinuing lower lines components?

I have looked at several components in Audio Research's line and they are discontinuing the LS17-se, PH8, and PH6.  They discontinued the DAC 8.  I know there is a new Ref 6 to replace the Ref 5se and their is a new Ref Phono 3 to replace the Ref Phone 2se coming out.  I talked to my dealer and he stated that Audio Research seems to be making their components look more McIntosh like in the Galeo series. 

The dealer stated their isn't going to be anything that he has heard that will replace the other lines at this point and that AR will be starting at the LS-27, which is $7500 for preamps.  The Ref 75se is the beginning of the line for Amps, which I know, but man are they going the Mac route with prices, nothing to replace the DAC 8 and the other DAC in the line is $11,000, what's up with this, have you guys heard anything more. 

The starting point for AR equipment is getting pretty high and the only way a newer person without means will be able to afford it will be to buy use, which could send the used prices up if there isn't anything else in the line.  What do you guys think and what have you heard?
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schubert
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Everything not sold in mass quantities is following this trend, the income inequalities in USA are highest in world, save Brazil, it's sell for
big bucks or go broke for corporations of any size at all.
schubert
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orgegonpop, profits are not evil per se , amounts made by Wall Street are profoundly so .
schubert
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Asian Markets are stronger because serious music is FAR more popular in Asia than USA . Percentage of Japanese who listen to Classical Music
is 4 times what it is in USA . 
schubert
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Its also a function of  computers ,smartphones , video games etc eating up average Joe's spare change . Till computers came out in the 70's all that cash went into hi-fi .
schubert
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don c55, very well put !
Oregonpapa, real estate firms control prices on a what the market will bear basis and that alone . Same house in rustbelt city under 100K .
There is little more discredited than Austrian School . Only socialization is Private Firm losses to public debt .
schubert
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Wrong, people are in effect "herded" into areas where money goes , if there is supply and demand its in people not dollars .
Austrian is a fantasy, there is not ever been such a thing as a free-market nor will there ever be .
Adam Smith himself ,under pressure, admitted "invisible hand" was the British Empire .That doesn’t mean Keynesian econ is all that either, in any event our debt is a function of "crony Capitalism " .
" Unfunded" is like Austrian, a fantasy, few strokes of a pen= what SS ?. what Medicare,, What VA?, what penion, etc,etc etc
The steaks cost 50 bucks because the material used in agriculture is price controlled by Monsanto. Cargill ,etc,etc
and the market will bear it in CA. Goes double for the college .
schubert
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There is nothing made or no job done that the Asian tigers can not make,or do, as well or better than anyone in the world .

jafreeman , you hit the proverbial nail on the head with your great post ! 
schubert
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Nothing to debate papa, one either believes humanity should be a slave to gold or one does not . Black and White thinking is like writing a film review  on the basis of one fuzzy snapshot of one scene .
schubert
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Any social system goes like this, things go up the system till the person or persons who have the power exercise it .
Be it religion ,kings,queens, bank, county sheriff, elected official ,the Fed, a dictator whatever . All else is nonsense .
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