….Anyway, I don't know why I bother.
Nor do we.
….Anyway, I don't know why I bother.
No need to be rude, I was only making an attempt at humour.Dick
What would you like him to leave off the construction to reduce the costs ?....the arm tube ? The bearing system ? or the counterweight ?
Strange reply.
, I don't know why I bother.
Why don’t you sell direct like audiomods guy
cut out dealers margins?
Why don’t you sell direct like audiomods guy
cut out dealers margins?
I suppose the question is this: if an arm outperforms another £4000 arm, will the producer realise most profit at £2000, £3000 or £5000?
I was looking at a cartridge thread a moment ago on here and pondering. ... " how much more does it cost to produce a cartridge that sells for £3,000 than one from the same manufacturer that costs £1.000 " ?
The answer is quite a lot more, and the chief reason is that at £3000 you sell so many fewer of them.
If I were funded to make 100,000 arms I would immediately get all the ABS parts injection moulded which would save years of skilled labour.
It's the same with bought in machined part unit costs. The unit costs of thrust boxes, pillars and bases would drop dramatically if I were ordering large quantities.
The economy of scale also applies to advertising and everything else in the marketing arena. It applies to me writing this.
Allegedly the Rega Planar 1 is ten times as popular as the others. Volume of production affects costs very hard.
A quick progress report: Munich High End was magical and a huge opportunity. We had a lot of interest from distributors, dealers and potential partners.
We were lucky to get a turntable into an enclosed room because after closing on the first night I overheard some neighbours discussing how to solve their turntable problems. I say more about this here:
https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/posts/5009715/
Lots of good things are in the pipeline including quite a famous Australian distributor. There will be more news soon.
At the end of this video you can see Michael Fremer and Beau Ranheim of Oswalds Mill Audio among the visitors to the SUPATRAC stand (youtube can do translated subtitles if you set it to):
That Garrard with the red plinth and Supatrak arm looks fabulous And, Michael Fremer looks very small!