This product won't be worth 300k in a few years - so comparing it to super high end collectible cars doesn't make sense to me. In fact, the higher the price in audio usually the worse the resale.
As the high end has melted up in price over the past decade, the audience has thinned. The solution isn't mega-priced items that 99.9% of the audiophiles can't afford. Its just that manufacturers would rather make 10, 50k pieces than 50, 10k pieces and they have (had) Asia to support it. I hope it doesn't become like the Swiss watch industry which had its worst year since the 80s last year as it relied on the same demand source and pumped out the same silliness to WISs.
JA has posted that the average Stereophile reader system spends 25k on their entire system. Provides some perspective.
As the high end has melted up in price over the past decade, the audience has thinned. The solution isn't mega-priced items that 99.9% of the audiophiles can't afford. Its just that manufacturers would rather make 10, 50k pieces than 50, 10k pieces and they have (had) Asia to support it. I hope it doesn't become like the Swiss watch industry which had its worst year since the 80s last year as it relied on the same demand source and pumped out the same silliness to WISs.
JA has posted that the average Stereophile reader system spends 25k on their entire system. Provides some perspective.