glad you said SOME. There are a good number of popular high phono carts in the $5K-$10K range now that are based on sound engineering with unique designs, not hand carved cases with generic guts.
The thing to rememeber in all this is that the high end audio market is small market. Production is low. this causes the prices to skyrocket because there is no economy of scale whatsoever. Product development cost and tooling costs per item produced are very high and that has to be recouped in the per unit sales price. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:[email protected]) Join the CD PLAYER & DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph McAllister Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:18 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Vinyl vs. Digital - the "all vinyl is noisy" myth, ,exposedinvideo On Nov 15, 2009, at 13:54 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: > look up the term STATE OF THE ART. sure hobbiest > can build some damn good gear but its not state > of the art stuff. try building a cartrdige as > good as a $5000 cartridge for $5000 yourself, > ditto for Turntables CD players, etc. Its just > not possible to match the very best stuff yourself > at same or lower cost, only at more cost. Some of the most cherished cartridges at the moment reside in hand carved shells created in Japan by knarled old men, using exotic woods and filled with the best available internal components that are mass produced but using better spec'd materials. Just like my old Porsha had an engine that was part of the best spec'd and balanced 3-4% of the VW engine assembly line, then had a P stamped in front of the serial number. The rest had a W. Joseph McAllister [email protected] "If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera." -Lewis Hine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
