09-13-15: Schubert A Vice-President of VW told me a A4 is a Passat in drag. IMO what you describe is a placebo effect. Is the VP Chris Mortensen? The same guy also twitted "A recent US President received dozens of DUI's and his license was suspended for zero days" |
09-18-15: Cantgetnosat As Backertlabs has just said, there is no law requiring any audio manufacturer, distributor or retailer to post, advertise or otherwise communicate where the components of the product are designed, manufactured or assembled.
Audiophiles must now rely on their own ears to tell them whether they like the product. God forbid that anyone is not able to do that and be (wo)man enough to admit to being clueless as to determining the quality of the product without knowing its origins.
With repeated posts like the above, can anyone doubt why there is a reluctance to state the origins of audio products. I wouldn't. From the designer, manufacturer, distributor or retailer's point-of-view, it would be a nightmare to be dragged down by any of these relentless posters into arguing about the origins of their audio product rather than how well it would serve the buyers' needs. +1 |
09-23-15: Nonoise We still think we live in a meritocracy and only the best rise to the top and we still tend to trust them to do the right thing, make the right decision. It's only when there's something catastrophic occurring (Katrina) or someone notices something askew (like where a product is made) that we realize that's it's been a ongoing sham, a long con, and we are the dupes. Don't blame the politicians but the citizens voted them in office. Today I saw that schmuck that raised the price of his medication 5000% and he could barely hide his smirk when he said it was reasonable. The medicine is 62 years old and there's no generic available? Nice gig if you can get it. 5000% is a bit of exaggeration?? $750 / $13.5 = 55.55. Maybe at $750, free market will spawn off generics?? |
09-24-15: Onhwy61 Knghifi, using your numbers it's actually a 5,555% increase in price. Free market economic theory assumes there are an infinite number of interchangeable products. That's clearly not the case with this medicine. From what I read, demand for this drug is relative low. So my point is when price is $13.5, there's not enough incentives to create a generic. But at $750, it's possible. |
Nonoise, your math is correct that it's 5000% |