Ralph, your not off topic. The topic is why Sony sells packages headphones instead
of earbuds in the US. There are people on the list that insist that earbuds cost
more to make then a comparable pair of headphones.
Now that might be true. But so far no one has been able to document what they are
saying. They are making an assumption as far as I am concerned until a
headphone/earbud manufacture comes on here as either proves them wrong or right.
And I doubt that is likely to happen.
I'm pretty sure the correct answer is that Americans in general prefer headphones.
Earbuds were released with cheap Walkman (tape players) by Sony. When Sony came
out with the first portable CD player it included a pair of fine quality
headphones.
For the price they were charging back then, they could have just well included
earbuds. But they wanted to present this entire package as high end.
Unless you over pay for them, the quality of earbuds peak rapidly. They can go
just so far with the technology. Headphones do not have the design constraints.
It's like Bose and their little cubes and subwoofer systems. They really don't
sound that good. You may think they do until you put them up against a good pair
of Polks.
Now I'm going to get off of the topic for a second. I had always thought how great
Infinity speakers were. But someone insisted that Polks were better (we're talking
high end-not small speakers). So I compared them. I was so surprised to hear how
much better the Polk towers sounded compared to the Infinity.
Regards,
Larry
Ralph Smeets wrote:
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> > As an aside, even though making wafers smaller reduces materials cost, the
> > cost of etching increases as the size of the wafer decreases. The point of
> > cutting them smaller is to increase speed, not reduce cost.
>
> Wrong, the wafer size stays the same. It's the die size that gets smaller. The
> cost of etching (which is only one of the many possible processes), doping etc,
> stays the same.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph -> getting off topic
>
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