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Old 03-15-2009, 03:54 AM
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It's my opinion that the significant premium over the GS-1000 is to avoid cannibalization of sales among the two top models.
yep. my thoughts exactly. if the price of the PS1000 was any lower, it would start to take away from the GS1000 market.

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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.
totally agree. that's why i have an HD800 on the way, but will hold off on the PS1000 until further review.

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The PS-1 is at an insane price, but it's a collector's item at this point. I would say that the PS-1000 may be best suited for the people that wanted a PS-1 but didn't want to drop several thousand on it. With the PS-1000 they only have to drop about $2K
a close comparison of the PS1 and PS1000 would be interesting.
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