highdudgeon Wrote: > Sounds about right. Really, it looks like a great product, but I think > they've overshot it somewhat. For two thousand, I will pass.
Well, I guess at new product launch time we all suddenly become marketing experts... :) So now it must be my turn! Remember its a heck of a lot easier to bring a product price down if you find you've overshot than it is to put it up if you find you've undercooked it. At product launch you'd much rather have a trickle of orders while you find out how to build the thing than to be flooded and realise that you could have charged more. Remember also that there isn't, AFAIK, a direct competitor or even anything particularly close to help establish a value. Also that one of the objeectives of the product, we presume, is to gain respectability for SDs line in the Audiophile world, where low prices represent a barrier to acceptance! I'm not about to fork out $2000 either, but I'm not the target. I'm delighted to see the product though, as I think it will bring new customers to Slim and should eventually give more for the mainstream SB users. Just one more thing, to all the respondants to this and the other threads who have slated Slim for including this or not including that: don't have a go at Slim because they haven't created *your* ideal product - no mass produced product is going to match anyone's needs exactly, the real question is have they got something sufficiently differentiated from their competition and their existing line to be worth bringing to market? Looks to me like they have. Go for it! Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25773 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
