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Where the heck are all these manufacturers coming from!

After being out of the HiFi hobby for about 15 years, covid lock down found me playing with some of my stored equipment. After being in the HiFi business for over 40 years, I though I knew who all the players were. A few forums, such as this, and a subscription to Stereoplile has me scratching my head over the plethora of super highend HiFi manufactures that I've never heard of and the unlimited number of inexpensive Chinese HiFi products. Near every day that I peruse these forums or YouTube channels I'm introduced to yet another amp, preamp, DAC, speaker manufacturer I never heard of.

And the prices.....Folks throw around recommendations for $10,000 and much more products with abandon. I just recently saw a 3.5" jumper cable for $39,000 and an 8' piece of speaker wire for $59,000.........I guess I should have stayed in the business instead of retiring!

rbertalotto
rsf507
2,305 posts
 

Audiomica Labs out of Poland has been around for over 10 years, wonderful sounding cables.

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csmgolf
885 posts
 

The OP would have really enjoyed Coconut Audio.

jbl-4345
58 posts
 

Well I guess it's great that we have so many new companies in hi end audio but the only thing that haven't change is the human ears ( hearing ) with that said what happened to the good old days when things were so simple in buying fantastic sounding audio equipment. Example  pair of jbl -100 pioneer hpm 100 or advent speakers.  Hafler amps and preamps. Audio cables cost more than my damm chevy high country 6.2.  Unbelievable.  Even if I had Michael Jordan money it's no way in hell I would spend 40.000 thousand on cables. I'm scared as hell how much money I would need to spend on the rest of my audio gear to complete my system 😫 😩 😪 

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cindyment
351 posts
 

@rbertalotto,


Lots of people with money, but not a lot of people with happiness. Companies selling $59,000 cables, are not selling audio products, no matter what they may convince an audio magazine / reviewer to say about them. They are selling the promise of happiness. It does not take much time on an audio forum to realize that the happiness is at best short lived.

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