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Why don't Sony make R-10s anymore?

post #1 of 28
9/10/08 at 2:53pm
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what is the reason for Sony not to continue making what many consider to be the best headphone you can get?
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post #2 of 28
9/10/08 at 2:58pm
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what is the reason for Sony not to continue making what many consider to be the best headphone you can get?
Because it wouldn't make a profit?
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post #3 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:09pm
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Because it wouldn't make a profit?
what is it that makes manufacturing costs so high?
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post #4 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:26pm
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what is it that makes manufacturing costs so high?
Manufacturing costs are (probably) not extremely high. At least probably not a lot higher than for other phones. But the other phones sell in the milions, and these would sell (because of the higher price and small audiophile niche market) only a few dozen. Maybe a few hundred. They would have to make them cost about 1000 times the price of any other phone to make it profitable. Not likely to find any buyers for that I'm afraid.
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post #5 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:43pm
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what is it that makes manufacturing costs so high?
R&D?
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post #6 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:44pm
X2 . Plus I've read that R10 was handmade product, which means it is more costly. And when the fella who was making them retired, Sony pulled the plug.
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post #7 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:49pm
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R&D?
That would be about the only cost they would NOT have to make, because the R10 are already researched & developed.....
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post #8 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:54pm
Why don't AKG make a K340 and a K1000 ?
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post #9 of 28
9/10/08 at 3:57pm
so that people can sell them in the secondary market for thousands of dollars.
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post #10 of 28
9/10/08 at 4:05pm
so sony can use all their remaining stocks of r10's that nobody knows about (hidden warehouses, yo) and post them erraticly on audiogon and forums like this one, from random hijacked and created accounts and make much more than they would selling them normally.


or, like, because the guy who made them retired.
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post #11 of 28
9/10/08 at 4:11pm
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Originally Posted by cantsleep View Post
R&D?
Better sound through research
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post #12 of 28
9/10/08 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by troymadison View Post
Better sound through research
Better sales through marketing?
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post #13 of 28
9/10/08 at 10:55pm
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Originally Posted by starscream View Post
what is the reason for Sony not to continue making what many consider to be the best headphone you can get?
They are too busy losing hundreds of dollars on every PS3 sold, & forcing BR & 'full HD' down our throat.. Thats where most of their disposable income is going.
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post #14 of 28
9/11/08 at 12:05am
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X2 . Plus I've read that R10 was handmade product, which means it is more costly. And when the fella who was making them retired, Sony pulled the plug.
hand assembled and hand tuned maybe - but that wood was carved by a machine.
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post #15 of 28
9/11/08 at 1:44am

it is because outof materials

It is because thereis no more materials needed to produce R10, say the wooden cup and the core. the last core Sony got have already sold to a hong kong guy on 2007. even the ear pad are already out of stock.
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