can anyone really justify spending $10K on rainbow refs?

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

Especially when you get so much more enjoyment out of great audio than most people ever will out of any artwork....cept maybe the Cistene (sp?) Chapel. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

sistine, and no its not the ceiling that is the jewel of that room. there are many great pieces of art out there that i would rather have than audio, but i just dont have the $50m needed to buy them, so i guess i will stick with sound.

 

[Hebrew Hammer 10+ year member]

Who ever wants to find out for $4000 shipped let me know //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[toolfan89 10+ year member]

for that price a pair of hot asian chicks should be thrown in the deal

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

if i had those comps, i'd charge people to listen...

 

[6spdcoupe 5,000+ posts]

hmm, makes me think of esb of italy //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

but your Zaps are sitting on shelves.

and sitting...and sitting...

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

but your Zaps are sitting on shelves.

and sitting...and sitting...

???

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

someone needs to make $10k speakers to go with those $1m sports cars
hello //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/uhoh.gif.c07307dd22ee7e63e22fc8e9c614d1fd.gif

Why in the holy hell would you do something to 1) add weight to such a car or 2) cover up the beautiul banshee wail of the engine/exhaust?

Course the people that buy such cars don't do so for the performance, they do it for the exclusivity. Same with stupid expensive audio gear. It's not about how good it is, it's entirely about how many (or more correctly few) other people have the same thing.

 

[klepto 10+ year member]

Im baffled at those speakers. I had no idea something like that could cost so much. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif

 

[ssj2xxgotenxx 10+ year member]

$10,000 is pocket change in comparision to the world of Home Audio. In which case is more worth it because you're in your house more than you're in your car.

 

[GeeTEye 10+ year member]

Well all you big shots out there how much IS too much. What price is too much for the average person who could even afford it? What if Dynaudio had a set of $35,000 comps and they were daymn good, or better yet $100,000. Even if you just won the lotto would you buy a set of $100K comps? At what point would even the most picky sound quality guy say "Hell no I'm not paying for that and I can afford it". Rainbow might have these priced this way just to say they are a company who has $10,000 comps and the people that buy them definatly want you to know they spent that kind of dough too. Perfect example is the 1 Million dollar Jaguar. Can a millon dollar Jaguar car do something a 130K 911 Porsche can't. NO it can't just bragging rights for who can afford it.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

Well all you big shots out there how much IS too much. What price is too much for the average person who could even afford it? What if Dynaudio had a set of $35,000 comps and they were daymn good, or better yet $100,000. Even if you just won the lotto would you buy a set of $100K comps? At what point would even the most picky sound quality guy say "Hell no I'm not paying for that and I can afford it". Rainbow might have these priced this way just to say they are a company who has $10,000 comps and the people that buy them definatly want you to know they spent that kind of dough too. Perfect example is the 1 Million dollar Jaguar. Can a millon dollar Jaguar car do something a 130K 911 Porsche can't. NO it can't just bragging rights for who can afford it.

actually it can......it can be a jaguar. but a porsche can be a porsche too, and nothing else can. Its not a matte of JUSTIFYING your purchase, its a matter of wanting the absolute best at any cost. Because I will put a set of them (10k) saying the people who buy them have the sickest installs as far as utilizing the speakers, maybe not looks, but actually using them CORRECTLY

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Well all you big shots out there how much IS too much. What price is too much for the average person who could even afford it? What if Dynaudio had a set of $35,000 comps and they were daymn good, or better yet $100,000. Even if you just won the lotto would you buy a set of $100K comps? At what point would even the most picky sound quality guy say "Hell no I'm not paying for that and I can afford it". Rainbow might have these priced this way just to say they are a company who has $10,000 comps and the people that buy them definatly want you to know they spent that kind of dough too. Perfect example is the 1 Million dollar Jaguar. Can a millon dollar Jaguar car do something a 130K 911 Porsche can't. NO it can't just bragging rights for who can afford it.

If people have the disposable income to spend, there's a market for it...there are people that spend millions on art that simply hangs on the wall, a couple hundred thousand for a stereo system seems trivial at that point //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

You're right, past a certain point the advantages are very, very, very slim if none at all. But that's not the point, as you said //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif