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RE: Really

"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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