peejay;173620 Wrote: > Not that I know a lot about this, but... > The price of equipment generally reflects (taking the introduction of > new technology out of the picture) the business model of a > manufacturer. So, containing R&D, production, testing, and logistics to > a reasonable spend, then you base your unit price on some reasonable > figure which should bring profit to you, a manufacturer, based on sales > projections of some figure which take into account the unit cost and > blah blah blah over a period of....get the picture? So, the cost to you > generally reflects the amount a manufacturer has put into the production > of the item, and what the same manufacturer expects back per item, once > the manufacturing process is in full swing. After that, of course, it's > generally based on what the market will tolerate. > High price is sometimes a guarantee of quality, and in a mature market, > generally so. Not that streaming media music players are quite a mature > market..........
Still don't like magazines pretty much asking for higher prices by getting all worked up over anything that costs 10k-30k dollars. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31860 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
