As a 35 year Audiophile, and Hifi store owner in thd U.K I learned many lessons
Being from the states when I arrived in the U.K I went looking to see which brands
I would stock. U.S products were being jacked up in some cases over 100%.
I educated the people on these practices. Which helped me gain respect.
The first years because of all the scams out there and many from U.S in yhd 2000
To 2006 range. Rule of thumb minimum if a product cost for example $1,000
In parts it is marked up 4 times that then overhead this unit maybe $5,000
The dealer gets on average 45% off of that. Commercial brand cables
Such as Synergistic research for example a 8-10 times markup Way over priced
With these bells and whistles like stock plug in modules for active shield,
Gor $400 more that little black box makes cable dound better.
Inside maybe $25 in parts stock model $10 . Totals Audiophiles need to be much
More educated and research.I have found smaller companies non big name
You are getting many times better parts no dealers Mark up. The consumer winds.
I used to have $75k MBL electronics ,fantastic sounding yes but at a huge price .
Now I look for the best product gor least amount of money spent .
For example and shocking no more $1500 on interconnects . I am in the process of having custom built amp and preamp with nothing but yhe best parts quality
3x less money then the big names and much better parts quality and as good or better then CJ,AR Ayon, Rogue, you name it . For cables the WiRe absolutely does matter. I use thd best in my electronics such as Neotech Single Crystal Copper
And for signal the best out there in the Silver Gold Alloy . I found a cable company
Using the Neotech wire and using exceptional connectors .Zenwave Audio Cables
I bought their 2nd from the top using this same Silver Gold Alloy for $550 a meter
Unbleached Cotter jacket Teflon over the wires and the excellent Copper rhodium gold interconnects from Furutech. I have had many $$ from all the big names
These cables beat cables 3x yhe price music just sounds like in the room
Using wire with fevers few grain boundaries everything is more transparent and at ease. Say goes gor the power and Loudspeaker cables.
The money goes into the product not the advertising.
One closing comment these adverts out there .there is s ton oof politics in online
And paper advertising the big full page ads get more favorable reviews
And comments. At present my reference preamp Direct Headed Triode preamp
Starting to get popular. Red wine audio, Coincidence for example.
My unit is much less money and a better product yhen both. Pass labs 1st watt SE
Clone amp .stuffed with nothing but the best ,companies put average quality parts in to save cost. Just keep this in mind .that is how Modwright has done well
Modding - making a product much better through premium parts and higher
Build engineering. Anyone looking for assistance just email me I am retired but Allways a Audiophile .with a new product and system
Synergy a very important word .Spend less $$ and get more !! Enjoy your music !!
