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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 14:59:24 GMT
Anyone?
The arguement is that the technology brings great speaker technology to the masses for $500/700 a pop. The manufacturing and design concepts have been around for some time but not well marketed. Patent protected and with some bright bunnies on board would you chance your arm.
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Post by arbster on Sept 19, 2016 15:00:41 GMT
Anyone? The arguement is that the technology brings great speaker technology to the masses for $500/700 a pop. The manufacturing and design concepts have been around for some time but not well marketed. Patent protected and with some bright bunnies on board would you chance your arm. "The masses" don't tend to spend $500-$700 on speakers, IMO.
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Post by Steerpike on Sept 19, 2016 15:06:34 GMT
SONOS has managed to convince quite a significant number of people to spend a lot of money on speakers.
It costs about £1,500 for a surround sound consisting of playbar, woofer, and 2 play 1s.
I think that there is a market for high end speakers.
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Post by arbster on Sept 19, 2016 15:10:12 GMT
I think SONOS' main selling point is its networked, multi-room capability, although there is an aspect of quality too. I would still question whether a mass-market proposition focused around sound quality alone would be viable.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 15:16:52 GMT
Anyone? The arguement is that the technology brings great speaker technology to the masses for $500/700 a pop. The manufacturing and design concepts have been around for some time but not well marketed. Patent protected and with some bright bunnies on board would you chance your arm. "The masses" don't tend to spend $500-$700 on speakers, IMO. You could be right but a lot of people buy iphones and the new ones all need new earplug thingies. I guess it depends if you want to believe you are in the 1% or the 99%.
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Post by Steerpike on Sept 19, 2016 15:39:23 GMT
I think SONOS' main selling point is its networked, multi-room capability, although there is an aspect of quality too. I would still question whether a mass-market proposition focused around sound quality alone would be viable. Agreed, SONOS offer convenient rather than really high quality speakers, although their offerings are higher quality than most network/bluetooth speakers. What is clear is that there is a significant number of people that will spend quite a lot of money on speakers, I'm not sure what qualifies as mass market in this context. Also, I think that there is a move (back) to higher quality, with Tidal, Deezer, and others offering better than CD quality or lossless audio. I haven't invested (yet).
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