HiFiAudio
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I always confused the Oppo PM-1 with the KEF M500...
Anyone see what I'm seeing?
Whats missing is the comparison in size.
yeah now they look so much alike, right?
I always confused the Oppo PM-1 with the KEF M500...
Anyone see what I'm seeing?
Whats missing is the comparison in size.
Here in Australia, there is a brick and mortar store in Melbourne that sells them in person as far as I'm aware. Their facebook page has them with the stock - ready to demo, I assume. I've not been there, but my brother has and they have hundreds of headphones out to display. Their price is $1699 AUD and the tax rate in this country is 10% of the price of the product, so take out the $169.90 or and we meet the figure of $1529.10. Adjusting our currency to the USD yeilds AUD $1170 or thereabout. Now I'm not sure if this would really apply seeing as products always get marked down over in the US but surely the Australian store isn't paying $1099 US for each of them? If they are then it makes sense with the tax+duty on $1000+ imports but still the price here is a bit steep for what it is.
The LCDX is $2500 here as well. Still not as bad as European prices, but still sucks.
It's the LCD3 that costs that here not the LCDX and it has only gone up to that price in the last month or so due to our dollar falling (when it was <0.90USD). The Audeze prices, after you account for all the differences in taxes/shipping/USD costs etc., are still about 5-10% higher than the US which is about right since most things cost more here usually. The OPPO price is >35% higher here.
Honestly, it's as if none of these guys ever studied microeconomics.
Sadly I didn't - it wasn't a compulsory subject here in Australian high school curriculum (year 7-12). Enlighten us on why the PM-1 needs to be nearly twice the cost for Europeans and the british? I can understand the Australian pricing based on GST, Import Duty, Import Taxes, shipping etc.
Sadly I didn't - it wasn't a compulsory subject here in Australian high school curriculum (year 7-12). Enlighten us on why the PM-1 needs to be nearly twice the cost for Europeans and the british? I can understand the Australian pricing based on GST, Import Duty, Import Taxes, shipping etc.
EDIT: Sorry, double posted by accident...
Sadly I didn't - it wasn't a compulsory subject here in Australian high school curriculum (year 7-12). Enlighten us on why the PM-1 needs to be nearly twice the cost for Europeans and the british? I can understand the Australian pricing based on GST, Import Duty, Import Taxes, shipping etc.
EDIT: Sorry, double posted by accident...
It's the LCD3 that costs that here not the LCDX and it has only gone up to that price in the last month or so due to our dollar falling (when it was <0.90USD). The Audeze prices, after you account for all the differences in taxes/shipping/USD costs etc., are still about 5-10% higher than the US which is about right since most things cost more here usually. The OPPO price is >35% higher here.
>35% wow. Learn something new every day. And I'm guessing it'll be hard to find an international seller with reasonable shipping price.
^It has been stated on the forum more than once how to buy the PM-1 direct from Oppo Digital Inc in the USA for overseas buyers via their offline order form. Not sure how it would seem like a bad joke since the PM-1 are an extremely high quality HP with very accurate sound and a laundry list of good features.
^It has been stated on the forum more than once how to buy the PM-1 direct from Oppo Digital Inc in the USA for overseas buyers via their offline order form. Not sure how it would seem like a bad joke since the PM-1 are an extremely high quality HP with very accurate sound and a laundry list of good features.
It's still not really clear to me how that works and I don't know if anyone's tried it yet.
I took his point to be that, at the time of release, it cost over $1500 and he thought it would make more sense to spend more on LCD3.