ruhenheiM
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justifying price would be never ending conversation. it's always comes down to the buyer if it's worth or not, eventually they're going to dictate the value. that's how free market works
for the cost itself, i could only speculate but since we knew grado only manufactured the plastic parts. the wood,metal,drivers,cable, they have their own suppliers. so there is a chance price fixing might happen and the headphones assembled by hand, and grado have pretty small employee( i assume they're not contractor), i'm guessing mass produce won't be ideal. that two factors alone could add cost pretty significant. also the only parts they could share to their headphones pretty much just the plastic parts, if they don't know how well their products going to sell, big orders to their suppliers would be pretty much gambling, higher cost seems more likely. and from distribution, there is always dealer cut... that's another cost. add their profit margin. that's the price people have to pay.
i really think their problem is their low end models and their sound signature, the prestige series really sound great at much affordable price. and most of the time the higher models just incremental improvement, sometimes little bit different tuning but they still sharing those sound signature nonetheless. it really give impression their higher models are overprice, especially with those packaging. i'm not gonna lie i think ps1000e at their msrp is overprice but in that price point, i prefer ps1000e sound to other headphones
for the cost itself, i could only speculate but since we knew grado only manufactured the plastic parts. the wood,metal,drivers,cable, they have their own suppliers. so there is a chance price fixing might happen and the headphones assembled by hand, and grado have pretty small employee( i assume they're not contractor), i'm guessing mass produce won't be ideal. that two factors alone could add cost pretty significant. also the only parts they could share to their headphones pretty much just the plastic parts, if they don't know how well their products going to sell, big orders to their suppliers would be pretty much gambling, higher cost seems more likely. and from distribution, there is always dealer cut... that's another cost. add their profit margin. that's the price people have to pay.
i really think their problem is their low end models and their sound signature, the prestige series really sound great at much affordable price. and most of the time the higher models just incremental improvement, sometimes little bit different tuning but they still sharing those sound signature nonetheless. it really give impression their higher models are overprice, especially with those packaging. i'm not gonna lie i think ps1000e at their msrp is overprice but in that price point, i prefer ps1000e sound to other headphones
You can't price fun IMO.
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