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<blockquote data-quote="req" data-source="post: 496528" data-attributes="member: 555713">of course the stuff is not &quot;worth&quot; the price we pay, take a look at nike. they make the shoe for like less than a dollar per PAIR overseas, then the come back and sell them for hundreds. there are things like shipping, packaging, stocking, building, yada yada... then they have to pay the engineers that come up with the designs, copyright laws, patents, all kinds of crap.do you think car audio manufactures would be able to stay in buisness if these costed less? this is why circut city and best buy is for... for people who have gone thru that all already- this is the enthusiast - is the market really that large for us? this IS an ENTHUSIAST market, not a mainstream one. therefore; stuff will be more expensive. thats how it is with all enthusiast products and hobbies. espically if you go with the best sounding high-end equipment. its your call, i go mediocre because im not an audiophile who can hear the distortion like some of us &#039;claim&#039; they can hear. my el-cheapo headphones sound fine to me on my mp3 player. all i want is a little more bass- this is where car audio come in for me.its all personal prefrence, and anyone who say otherwise should have his tongue cut off.but, the reason why it is worth it;Its because its fun to play with. its fun to install. and its fun to show off. this is why people have hobbies that they spend money on. do you think that coin collecting or stamp collecting is any different? why do those weird people collect barbies, or old lunchboxes, even mcdonalds paraphernalia.its all because its fun to do man//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/ladysman.gif.b3d08666a805020911dd758f82cd9ab0.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="req, post: 496528, member: 555713"] of course the stuff is not "worth" the price we pay, take a look at nike. they make the shoe for like less than a dollar per PAIR overseas, then the come back and sell them for hundreds. there are things like shipping, packaging, stocking, building, yada yada... then they have to pay the engineers that come up with the designs, copyright laws, patents, all kinds of crap. do you think car audio manufactures would be able to stay in buisness if these costed less? this is why circut city and best buy is for... for people who have gone thru that all already- this is the enthusiast - is the market really that large for us? this IS an ENTHUSIAST market, not a mainstream one. therefore; stuff will be more expensive. thats how it is with all enthusiast products and hobbies. espically if you go with the best sounding high-end equipment. its your call, i go mediocre because im not an audiophile who can hear the distortion like some of us 'claim' they can hear. my el-cheapo headphones sound fine to me on my mp3 player. all i want is a little more bass- this is where car audio come in for me. its all personal prefrence, and anyone who say otherwise should have his tongue cut off. but, the reason why it is worth it; Its because its fun to play with. its fun to install. and its fun to show off. this is why people have hobbies that they spend money on. do you think that coin collecting or stamp collecting is any different? why do those weird people collect barbies, or old lunchboxes, even mcdonalds paraphernalia. its all because its fun to do man [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/ladysman.gif.b3d08666a805020911dd758f82cd9ab0.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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