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In Reply to: The "Mod" industry. posted by Merle on November 5, 2008 at 09:12:13:
Audio is the poor step-sister of consumer electronics. Volume manufacturing makes parts that cost little compared to one-off parts. Just try to imagine making your own transistors or wire from **scratch**. You wold start with a mass-produced, and cheap, shovel...
High-volume/low-cost audio components sound bad because there is limited demand for better performance. While Sony, Panasonic, and the like, could easily amortize the engineering cost required to make not-quite-so-low-cost and good-sounding components, they see no reason to do so. The high-cost components we have use many low-cost parts and a few high-cost parts. The art of high-cost component design is to incur the added cost where it does the most good and still meet a realistic price point. In this sense, all high-cost components are "tweaked" versions of cheap components.
This means the high-cost components still contain trade-offs, where the designer chose not to add extra cost by going for some sort of custom part, or failed to perceive an interaction that became important because of the use of a custom part with limited history and experience. In this sense, all "modded" high-cost components are tweaks upon tweaks.
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