I have a Boston Acoustics Microsystem CD. The speakers and radio still work great but recently the slot-loading CD player has started to go on the fritz. Sometimes I have to insert CDs 3 or 4 times, at different angles, in order to get it to recognize them, or else it spits out an E70 error code...

SonicStudio,   You guys make a great product, there's no denying that. However I stand by my earlier comments that your pricing doesn't accurately reflect the actual value of your product (i.e. the time/money taken to develop it) versus the value/pricing structure of your competitor's...

Quote:   For $695 you, too, can convince yourself that Amarra sounds better than any other music player app (and more importantly - that your ears can tell the difference). Of course, if Amarra sold for less than $50 like most of its competitors (i.e. Fidelia and Decibel), people might...

Quote: Originally Posted by yashu Did they ever look around and notice, that most people with a portable *don't* have an iphone, ipod, or anything apple related What a great idea: marketing a pair of headphones to the 30% of the DAP market not controlled by Apple. Why, they'd...

I think we're all being naive not to suspect manufacturers of "audiophile" equipment of marking up their products exponentially. Successful companies carefully manage their brand image, and for many of them exclusivity is of utmost importance – that is, making sure only a few people own it by...

What a story! I'd love to see pictures of your journey – a photo of your current collection, maybe? Also, not to pry, but what exactly do you do for a living that makes all this possible? I think I have pretty good taste in 'phones, and I'd love to have my own Orpheus system, but none of...