Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Secondly: the only data (I would call it anecdotal at best) I have available is product pricing which is readily available to the public
As I shop for gear on massdrop, amazon and elsewhere for anything from DACs to headphones and everything in between, I've noticed a pattern in pricing: for any item certain range most, if not all, vendors sell a product at nearly the same price (be it ~$199 DACs or ~$350 amps or ~$500 speakers or ~$900 headphones). To me this raises red flags. In a competitive, efficient market vendors should try to compete and undercut each other, not settling on very tight price ranges. The fact presently there are several headphones at $899-and-change and at other other products at prices mentioned above scream of unintentional price fixing: w/o any malice or collusion among them, vendors choose to not undercut each other. i,e.: vendor A releases product P at price X, vendor B releases competing product Q at price X, then vendor C and vendor D follow suit whereas in an efficient market, vendor B would price Q at X - 5% (just as en example) in order to get customers looking their way. This lack of competitive efficiency hurts the consumer badly and if I'm right in my feeling/sensing we could be overpaying for the products we buy-- which are already quite pricey :(