In Reply to: Really posted by JeffH on January 20, 2013 at 07:39:30:
"I think this is like buying any quality component. When I wanted sound comparable to my Wadia CDP, I had to spend like $$ to get it.Within reason, you pretty much get what you pay for, hence my Ayre QB9 and I couldn't be happier."
I don't see how price correlates all that much to anything - much less sound quality given the differences in engineering expertise, access to manufacturing facility, etc. between the "majors" vs. "specialty audio" brands.
Maybe the relative price within a specific brand could signify audio quality and reflect component costs (eg. more expensive Marantz should be better than a cheaper model), but take something like Audio Note, 47 Labs, Shindo stuff and you could be spending $$$$ without necessarily much of that going into the engineering. This is of course not to say that this stuff doesn't sound good... I'm sure they do, but the price:audio-quality ratio would be very different (and I presume not "within reason" as you noted).
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Follow Ups
- RE: Really - Archimago 01/20/1314:23:56 01/20/13 (5)
- IME, yes, Ayre's price is commensurate with the quality - Sordidman 09:32:35 01/21/13 (0)
- Philosophical - JeffH 17:27:57 01/20/13 (3)
- Sure... RE: Philosophical - Archimago 07:53:33 01/21/13 (2)
- "I see nothing empirical supporting this" - that's strange. Aren't you conducting MP3 vs. CD tests? - carcass93 08:49:19 01/22/13 (0)
- Well, if you had more experience - Sordidman 09:33:47 01/21/13 (0)