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Oh, to be a high end dealer for a year.

I love hifi. But high-end mystifies me. I can't help but think it's my lack of deep exposure.

I'd love to know if $100,000 amps matched to $100,000 speakers really sound so much better than the few-thousand dollar systems in my foreseeable future.

Is the worth of a quarter-million dollar system purely a function of sound quality, or some interaction between sound quality + one's idle disposable funds + time on one's hands?

And lordy, assuming they don't become the next Conrad Johnson, how do these companies that only produce a couple of high-road-to-nirvana-reviewed $50k-ish components fair in the short- and long-term, financially? Do they live long and prosper, and how? If not, are they cleaning up in their short stay, or losing their shirts to their dream?

I'll probably never know.
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david12
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Don't you think that the really High End will do OK in a recession? The super rich are always with us and in fact, are growing exponentially. It's us wage slaves in the middle, that are suffering. So it's the sellers of $2 to 4000 that are feeling the pinch.

If you look at the far east, the growth of millionaires and billionairs, is phenomenal. If you ask the high end manufacturers where they are looking for sales, that's where it is. I have mentioned this before, but I heard of A US speaker manufacturer who makes a £1000,000+ set of speakers as advertising, promotion, never expecting to sell any. He went to a Shanghai show, a guy came in, listened for a good while and bought 2 pairs there and then.
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