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<blockquote data-quote="bbeljefe" data-source="post: 8143170" data-attributes="member: 655960">Well maybe if you understood a bit more about what overpriced stuff gets us as consumers, it wouldn&#039;t be so annoying to you. For instance, in the world of cars, most of the really convenient or safe features we take for granted in our Honda Civics and Dodge Cobalts came from research and development at overpriced car companies or in the very costly racing industry. Manufacturer&#039;s who come up with these innovations can&#039;t do so without funding, because it costs a lot of money to hire talented engineers and designers to sit in rooms and think up things to try... and then build at the risk of most of them not seeing the light of day.The same happens in car audio. The guys who spend $150,000.00 on Sundown and other high end audio equipment for competitions allow companies like them to innovate and ten years from now you or I will be taking for granted some of the things that today can only be had for thousands of dollars.Because of that, I&#039;m happy that there are people willing to buy Bentleys and Ferraris and JL Audio and Sundown.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbeljefe, post: 8143170, member: 655960"] Well maybe if you understood a bit more about what overpriced stuff gets us as consumers, it wouldn't be so annoying to you. For instance, in the world of cars, most of the really convenient or safe features we take for granted in our Honda Civics and Dodge Cobalts came from research and development at overpriced car companies or in the very costly racing industry. Manufacturer's who come up with these innovations can't do so without funding, because it costs a lot of money to hire talented engineers and designers to sit in rooms and think up things to try... and then build at the risk of most of them not seeing the light of day. The same happens in car audio. The guys who spend $150,000.00 on Sundown and other high end audio equipment for competitions allow companies like them to innovate and ten years from now you or I will be taking for granted some of the things that today can only be had for thousands of dollars. Because of that, I'm happy that there are people willing to buy Bentleys and Ferraris and JL Audio and Sundown. [/QUOTE]

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