mwhals
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Moon Audio has the QPM on their site for preorder for months. Just checked and it is nowhere on their site now.
That's something I noticed too. Slowly info was coming out about it the all of a sudden things went quite and place that had pre-order stopped.Moon Audio has the QPM on their site for preorder for months. Just checked and it is nowhere on their site now.
How I see it is they could have at least update the DAC, doesn't even need to be a big update.Not so much the UI, but the feature set needs updating in my opinion.
They need to offer on board streaming, bluetooth capabilities, etc. to justify the price increase. I should not need to use my phone as a transport to get this functionality in a $2000 player in today's market. The market has shifted since earlier, minimally featured, TOTL players could get away with this.
It also does not help that their earlier models already sound so good and can still be bought at a fraction of the projected price of the QPM. In a way Questyle is competing against itself!
Bottom line: as is, this thing should have a retail price of no more than about $1499 given today's competition (and that's being generous). Packaged with the HB2 hub I can see $1699. That would bring the street price down to an acceptable level. The hub, if sold by itself, should be $299 maximum.
Maybe the $2000 pricing would have worked if it had been released in the same timeframe as the Sony WM1Z, but those days are gone.
Questyle: Hope you're listening and noticing the distinct lack of enthusiasm as evidenced by the minimal activity on this thread!
Are there any reviews or impressions yet?
Are there any reviews or impressions yet?
Is this device now released?
There is a review unit on eBay ..
My web search turns up no U.S.-based vendor for the QPR. Anybody have different results?