Agree BUT what/which is recommended best (WBF) Schnerzinger or Holostage products? Forget price please.
I am interested but want to do first and only with the best and this forum is the place, however why hasn't anyone compared the two as they both seem to be alike and recieve raves. THX
KIS: There’s a surprisingly simple and rational way to deal with situations like this, and it reaps benefits with everything not just seemingly goofy tweaks. The vast majority will never try, it takes more mental effort than they are willing to put into it. But in the process you learn to understand high end audio better than most.
Here let me walk you through it using your two examples. Since both come highly recommended by those who have actually heard them, but not in direct comparison, we start by assuming both really are as good as claimed. What we want to know is which is the greater value? Or maybe for those with money to burn, which is better regardless of price?
I’m also going to assume every technical claim is pure BS ad copy word salad, and so disregard all claims made by the manufacturers. (Highly advisable for EVERYTHING, btw!)
So now: Schnerzinger, made by a big corporation with engineers, web developers, marketing teams. Fantastic industrial design, oozes quality ($) and professionalism. Probably really well funded, but by what exactly it’s hard to say. Sold through dealers.
Holostages, made by hand by one woman so obsessed with this one thing she has time for little else, because she can’t stop experimenting and improving. Minimal website, even less advertising, virtually zero overhead. Sold direct.
The first one, the selling price has to cover all those engineers, marketers, developers, and dealers. The product is made in massive production runs, so the price must also cover inventory expenses. With of course profit left over for the president, CEO, CFO, board, accounting staff, regulatory compliance, on and on.
Holostages, Krissy has to make enough to cover rent and her next order of boxes and goop to put in them.
You do the math. I haven’t directly compared. But this is far from the only product out there that is just like this, in terms of how it’s made and sold. Every single one like this where I have compared the little guy absolutely creams the big corporations. I wouldn’t want to be the guy who got sucked into IsoAcoustics and then later heard Townshend. There’s a reason people wait so long for Decware. Etc. Etc.
