TheDreamthinker
Headphoneus Supremus
ER4P + S adapter was $185 at the Ety booth for MacWorld 2004. EDIT: might have been 2005.
Those were the days a quick skim of eBay and I the lowest prices I see are for the er4's are $265.00-$329.00 definitely Either a jump in cost of value or just generally inflation .
Thanks for the info.
I personally don't think that inflation plays a big role there. And the ER4 is not overly complex to produce - one driver, one plastic shell, one connector, one cable, a few tips, cleaning tools...etc.
Nothing to write home about.
Etymotic fixed their prices (like Grado) a few years ago. I think it just them seeing that the ER4 is still going strong and they just want to profit from their longstanding cash cow a bit more.