Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods?

@czarivey :

In case of cartels they take raw supply and bring it to the powder initially with cost of around $100 per kilo and when it gets to consumer it's $100 per gram (hypothetically)

Thank you for explaining the economics of a drug cartel. I personally have no experience with a drug cartel, so I rely on other people with experience in such matters to learn. See.... education!

In case of for example Nordost Odin speaker cable, it starts from somwhere $1 per few meters...

Source? Or you work for Nordost too?

@cd318 :

Your concerns are very valid and well founded. Good observations too. My humble advice on how to (try to) remedy the very valid issue you raised:

1) Lot of noise in the internet. You are right. Coming from "innocent" people with a secret agenda, whether from the manufacturers' side, or themselves profit motif. The key is to get to know the people online or personally that you learn to trust, both integrity wise, and from the perspective of matching their taste with your own. This takes years (if not decades) and constant exposure to what goes on in the hobby, user forums and publications / reviewers.

2) As many personal contact as possible with people. This includes dealers (I fortunately live in a place with several dealers, brick and mortar), friends you can visit in person, preferably who have a vast experience, great systems, and money, and finally, visiting audio shows any chance you can.

3) Most importantly, before purchase, be able to try for yourself, in your home / system. I realize that one would have to start somewhere (i.e. #1 and #2 above), as we cannot possibly try everything out there for ourselves in our homes.

I guess if you go to Barnes and Noble and pick up basics of electronics and electro-magnetics, you will know instead of arguing

As naive as you think I am, I have realized that you have mastered the art of being very offensive to people, without being kicked out of the forums. And that’s skill you have. Thus your 5000+ posts in here (and counting).

Please don't take this the wrong way, and I mean absolutely no offense, a good person will never say jerky (only in a snarky cowardly way) things you post here.

@thyname,

I do have a lot more skills than you and you’ve just realized that while you really can do just absolutely nothing with your unsupported arguments. What else should I do or say??

Everything else is pretty much OK here (and counting).

Funny you should mention that. A lot of good components are getting way over the top expensive. I certainly do not think more expensive = always better.