bagwell359
Headphoneus Supremus
Supply and demand. What the market will bear. Increased costs of materials used to make them. They have a lot of competition, yet managed to find a niche to be successful with. I think the HFM Susvara is far more over priced vs the cost, than the 8000's. If they went Schitt, you could see a 40% price drop, but all the retailers that carry them would drop them, so that would be a very big risk.Im not complaining, plus I already own the D8K pro and the LE.
Is it bad to worry about the consumers? I don't see anything bad about it.
Plus raising the prices for an already niche company means that they would be less competitive.
It looks like that some people actually works for the companies ...
Both 8000's are wonderful, but I can only consider the used market given I'm retired. For myself when I see the used prices for cans such as the OG LCD-4 and HFM HEK v2, etc. I can't do it. I can score what I consider the cheapest pair of SoTA speaker for $3700 (BMR Philharmonic Tower), that would easily be my choice over headphones. So, the market works.