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Inflated prices in audio

Not being funny but I put a post into the thread about SME no longer selling tone-arms on their own saying they are not silly priced - I then had to row it back a bit when I saw that the SME V retails at £5500. 110 years ago it was half that price. My salary ain't doubled.

Likewise there are some real silly price audio equipment. If you index link top end audio from the 80's they would still come out significantly cheaper than now.

I'm not convinced that the best high-end from now is necessarily better than the stuff back then - different perhaps.

Is there any logical explanation for this? I think magazines like hi-fi world and what hifi are fairly responsible and do review a lot of real world products, but other publications are fixated with the utterly un-affordable.

What do you 'goners think?
lohanimal
rsf507
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Cause companies aren't selling as much so making it up with increased prices. 
ghasley
2,450 posts
 
Theres more great audio gear being manufactured and sold by more companies than at any other time in history. Fact. It just might not be in the form you think should qualify but its a fact.

The whining about monetary policy and inflation always cracks me up. Its usually from those who actually benefitted from the money supply expanding from the date of their birth or from those who yearn for the days of 15% cd’s. I know of some who have been sitting in cash for years, certain that a market crash is just over the horizon. Jeez.
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cakyol
940 posts
 
I am developing a special "air" which transmits sound better than the usual air.  I will market it and sell it for a million dollars per cubic foot.  Audiophiles will gladly buy it.
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asvjerry
4,375 posts
 
@cakyol....but, does it get you high as well?  Obviously, it Has to be 'rarified' to be worth it....
While you're at it, make sure the mark, I mean, client understands the need for the special 'room sealant' to contain the RareAire...as well as the new windows, doors, air exchange/filters, compressors, vacuums, power system.....all ISO'd, UL'd, and anything else you can come up with...;)

Go gittum, tiger...
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georgehifi
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I am developing a special "air" which transmits sound better than the usual air.
Too late mate!!! that’s what SR uses inside their $170usd voodoo fuses!!!!

Cause companies aren’t selling as much so making it up with increased prices.
And some are unscrupulous, and selling cheap to produce snake oil that has 1000% markup.
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