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Originally Posted by Wmcmanus
The difference, at least to my way of thinking, is that I can somewhat feel good (or justified in my mind) when I pay $1,400 for a Sennheiser product that was started from a clean slate and represents a tremendous effort on their part to advance the state of the art in terms of headphone design.
With the PS-1000, no such efforts were made by Grado. Moreover, the price set for the PS-1000 is clearly not based on any cost-based formula whatsoever but is instead a direct attempt to exploit a market opportunity based on the prices that have been observed in the used market for the HP-1000 and PS-1, or so it would seem.
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Fully agree, that is also how I see they priced the PS1000.
Did they even pay attention to the price of the competition in the HD800s? Now more than ever I hope the HD800s change the landscape of headphones especially in contrast to the legendary vintage headphones.
People can spend their money however they please, but the higher the price goes the higher some of these headphones seem to get touted. Hopefully the HD800s will change the tide.