06-Oct-2014, 18:18
Cable influence, especially in the digital arena, remains a contentious issue even within the relative calmness of the DevialetChat forum.
What I continue to find unbelievable is the justification for charging astronomic prices at the "top end". And the multipliers which seem to apply.
For example, with many of us using 5m lengths for router to Devialet connection, the OP's Audioquest Diamond costs around £3,000 which is 55 times the price of Audioquest's base Pearl offering at £55, that in turn 10 times the price of stock CAT6 cable.
By comparison, looking at "real" hardware, the Devialet 800 at £21,000 is around 20 times the price of a base offering for pre/power/phono/dac/wifi from Arcam, being the FMJ A19 and the Airdac. I'm content that each of those probably retail at around ten times the component and manufacturing cost, but in the case of the Diamond I bet that multiplier is one hundred or more.
At the forthcoming Devialet Guildford event it would be interesting to get the Devialet guys to comment on ethernet properties from a technical viewpoint and get the Guildford guys to run some blind tests to see if differences are readily discerned.
What I continue to find unbelievable is the justification for charging astronomic prices at the "top end". And the multipliers which seem to apply.
For example, with many of us using 5m lengths for router to Devialet connection, the OP's Audioquest Diamond costs around £3,000 which is 55 times the price of Audioquest's base Pearl offering at £55, that in turn 10 times the price of stock CAT6 cable.
By comparison, looking at "real" hardware, the Devialet 800 at £21,000 is around 20 times the price of a base offering for pre/power/phono/dac/wifi from Arcam, being the FMJ A19 and the Airdac. I'm content that each of those probably retail at around ten times the component and manufacturing cost, but in the case of the Diamond I bet that multiplier is one hundred or more.
At the forthcoming Devialet Guildford event it would be interesting to get the Devialet guys to comment on ethernet properties from a technical viewpoint and get the Guildford guys to run some blind tests to see if differences are readily discerned.
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