lextek
Headphoneus Supremus
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No one is devaluing skill/labor. It's just the almost doubling in price in a matter of a few weeks. Maybe if there was a response from Fix-up?
Originally posted by jpelg ....Perhaps if he, who seems to have strived to keep prices down for so long, was not so publicly made an example of when HFi's moderators finally decided to exercise their power and enforce their rules, and made to feel that his efforts were not appreciated, he would not have decided to go with the open market and all it allows. I don't blame him. This is about business, because you all made it about business. Now live with it.... |
[size=small]....I can eat the hottest food that you can never even touch. I designed my super mini, only because I could no longer let people be ripped off by those stuff that are not even close. As you mentioned, nobody else can do it yet and I could easily sell my super mini for $$$. I raised the price from $60 to $80 only once, only try to reduce flooding orders. As you can see, most members here still consider $80 is still a very good deal for such a killer amp. I have the monopoly, but I still keep the price so low. Why? I'm a nice guy, a cowboy. It is that simple. Think about it....[/size] |
Originally posted by erix So What? I don't know about other builders-for-hire but for me my time is valuable. I don't know how JMT, Eric, Tangent, Antness, and others find time for all the building they do for others. My list of things to do is continually growing and building an amp for someone takes time away from things like family and recreation. |
Perhaps Fixup calculated what he was really making with each of those amps sold. Perhaps he found out he was making $1.98 / hr? |
Isn't someone's time and workmanship worth SOMETHING? |
So you can buy an Airhead for <$100. You get an amp that is AC-coupled with tiny little caps in the signal path. You get a crossfeed and a green LED in a case made for a radar detector. Congratulations - it's just like everybody else's Airhead. Double that amount with the Total Airhead and you get better caps in the signal path as well as some better resistors. Does it sound twice as good? |
They were both made by machines. |
They both contain parts purchased in large quanity with substantial cost savings. They are both marketed and sold by a very fine company formed especially for the purpose of providing amps to the masses. I don't want to get into the concept of worth - especially in an audiophile setting. No one in this house should throw stones... You paid how much for that hospital-grade duplex outlet? Those little pointy feet do what? |
If it sounds good to you, fine, buy it. If you feel it costs too much for what it sounds like, don't buy it. Just don't come here and devalue a persons skills and product simply because you don't like the price. |
I don't want this to sound like support or endorsement for Fixup because it is not. I find his commercial posts in this forum a bit troubling - especially when other members have been reprimanded for doing so. I don't support them either. [/B] |