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- From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Audio ...
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan27.235538.14015@borland.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:42:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.235538.14015@borland.com> dominic@borland.com (Dominic Yip) writes:
- >
- >If you guys really think CD is better, why are the price of CD player
- >comming down while good turntable system keep going up.
- >
- It's what called "charging what the market will bear." Also, getting more
- cd players out in the world means that more people will be buying more CDs.
- Take for example, a small, humble CD player manufacturer like Sony, who
- also just happens to own a CD company (Columbia). Or Phillips, and so on.
-
- Very little vinyl is being manufactured anymore (by comparison), so
- there's little economic interest in it.
-
- A turntable system sells for $25K because it can. No matter whether the
- materials, engineering and labor that go into it make it intrinsically
- worth that price or not, it will sell for $25K simply because some guy who
- may or may not be a nutcase is willing to spend the money.
-
- Please note: this is an economic discussion, not a technological or
- perceptual or musical discussion.
-
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