whirlwind
Headphoneus Supremus
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Since HD800s is an "Improvement" version, I afraid it will be $2.2k to $2.5k to be compete with HIFIMAN HE1000 pricing and HD800 is not EOL.
I think I'll just wait for the HD1000 due in 2020...
And probably lurking in the wings, getting a feel for what pricing would seem to be acceptable and for ideas on the best blurb to launch/release it with.
From a performance point of view I think that the "old" hd800 beats HE1k at half the price. Ah, I also liked he6 more than the new flagship. I hope that they don't want to compete with HE1k just from a price point of view. If one has an unreasonable price, it shouldn't be taken as example by others.
Indeed it shouldn't. But that is exactly how it works.
1. Some smartarse comes up with a wildly overpriced product. Somehow it's successful.
2. Many follow and the fastest are successful too. The lucky schmuck at no1 is now a 'genius'.
3. Everyone follows and there is an industry-wide crash. Sometimes a few 'geniuses' are lynched by the even smarter (and by now ruined) mob.
... rinse .. repeat ..
And since we are the smartest monkeys, all the above is nowadays done 'scientifically' by economists & marketers.
I'd say that hifi is approaching the end of the 'golden era' at no2... very fast! May even be past it but no3 only becomes official after the first genius ruins himself and everyone around.
The patient will be rewarded with a glorius aftermath garage sale