Inna, nothing in life is "worth" anything. Worth is what we as humans subscribe to.
Is a diamond worth thousands of dollars or tens of thousands? Is a rare Patek Phillipe watch $100k or more?
The market determines what people will pay for. In the case of the Veryron the car's rarity and extreme performance drive up its price.
One of our clients let us drive his Lamborgini which was a $200k plus car and frankly it wasn't that great, way too low, felt like a go cart, the interior was amazing it was a fun toy but in our mind his fully tricked out fully loaded Cadillac Henissey twin tubro was a much more exciting car and that car was nearly a 1/3rd the price of the Lambo.
As per a person wealthy enough to afford a $3.3 million dollar car many o of those people made their fortunes themselves.
Micheal Bloomberg is a multi billionare, he started from scratch, our client who is worth over a billion, came over to the US as an Immigrant and worked his way up the corporate ladder. Mark Cuban made it also through hard work, so these people would view themselves as both being rich, smart, hard working and having paid their dues to get where they are.
The surprising thing in high end audio is how some of the really expensive things are actually quite expensive to make and their high costs are actually more valid
Liamowen, we wouldn't be buying a $600k system and selling it for 1/2 its price in a year that would be stupid. Resale value and cost have nothing to do with anything, and the truly rare ultra statement products like the Naim Statement amplifiers and a pair of Focal Grande Utopia Evo III are almost never seen on the used market.
So if you have even $400k in your pocket you are not going to find these items, nor would a dealer sell such a system for that price, you are going to pay close to $600k and that is that the person who can afford such a system is going to find out that certain expensive and rare items actually do sell for and cost quite a lot to accquire.
Good luck finding a pair of the current Focal Grande Utopia Evo III or a pair of Naim Statment amplifiers used. Most of the people who are spending that kind of money don't move willy nilly in and out of such items. they do their research, hear such a system, pay the price and buy it.
If we had that kind of funds available we would have that system on display it was extraordinary
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
Is a diamond worth thousands of dollars or tens of thousands? Is a rare Patek Phillipe watch $100k or more?
The market determines what people will pay for. In the case of the Veryron the car's rarity and extreme performance drive up its price.
One of our clients let us drive his Lamborgini which was a $200k plus car and frankly it wasn't that great, way too low, felt like a go cart, the interior was amazing it was a fun toy but in our mind his fully tricked out fully loaded Cadillac Henissey twin tubro was a much more exciting car and that car was nearly a 1/3rd the price of the Lambo.
As per a person wealthy enough to afford a $3.3 million dollar car many o of those people made their fortunes themselves.
Micheal Bloomberg is a multi billionare, he started from scratch, our client who is worth over a billion, came over to the US as an Immigrant and worked his way up the corporate ladder. Mark Cuban made it also through hard work, so these people would view themselves as both being rich, smart, hard working and having paid their dues to get where they are.
The surprising thing in high end audio is how some of the really expensive things are actually quite expensive to make and their high costs are actually more valid
Liamowen, we wouldn't be buying a $600k system and selling it for 1/2 its price in a year that would be stupid. Resale value and cost have nothing to do with anything, and the truly rare ultra statement products like the Naim Statement amplifiers and a pair of Focal Grande Utopia Evo III are almost never seen on the used market.
So if you have even $400k in your pocket you are not going to find these items, nor would a dealer sell such a system for that price, you are going to pay close to $600k and that is that the person who can afford such a system is going to find out that certain expensive and rare items actually do sell for and cost quite a lot to accquire.
Good luck finding a pair of the current Focal Grande Utopia Evo III or a pair of Naim Statment amplifiers used. Most of the people who are spending that kind of money don't move willy nilly in and out of such items. they do their research, hear such a system, pay the price and buy it.
If we had that kind of funds available we would have that system on display it was extraordinary
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ