How to make high-end consumer electronics

by philg

Take a $500 Blu-ray player, wrap it in a fancy case, and sell it for $3500 (full story; I am betting that Lexicon is going to be sending an angry letter to Tim Berners-Lee for developing the World Wide Web).

To go with your new player, here’s a helpful list of speakers that cost more than $100,000 per pair.

Related: my article on high-end audio

5 thoughts on “How to make high-end consumer electronics”

  2. Trenton: Whoa. Thanks for the link. Perhaps this is the cable that will make a Windows 7 computer truly live up to its potential.

  3. I bet Oppo will actually make out quite well from the press (although they already have an excellent reputation among more budget-conscious audiophiles).

  4. I suspect many of the $100k speakers use the same technology…
    I could easily be persuaded to quit my job and make funky looking speakers in a wood or a dense plastic. If I had an MIT guy pushing the brand and extolling the virtues of the “Peve” or “Shilip” brand we might do well…

  5. It’s done all the time – DVD players are nothing more than computer drives with a translation board and cost nearly nothing to make.

    However, Given that there is instant feedback everywhere in the world, and the public is not nearly as stupid as the people in corporate offices who presume they are, check out the wonderful, sarcastic feedback (including mine) on the Denon Cable scam:

    http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1263927731&sr=8-1

    Better still, when a company that is already promoting generic products as “premium” with technobabble, and then threatening everyone in sight to protect their market share starts tangling with an experienced attorney, the results are truly heart-warming.

    http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm

    The final response letter from Kurt Denke

    http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/response041408.pdf

    puts him high if not on top of my list of unassuming and largely unsung heroes in the fight against premium crap and the assholes who sell it.

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