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Originally Posted by captainaudio
With cars, watches and many other things, stereo equipment for example as the price escalates improvements generally do not go at the same rate.
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Exactly, and usually you get more of a niche customer who's willing to make fewer trade-offs with the core use-case.
For example, as a car gets more track oriented you lose a/c, stereo, leather seats, etc and eventually you have a frame, suspension, wheels, engine, and bare controls. You've lost almost every feature, but specialized the car. It may be 4x the price but only 1.5x faster. Of course this is because of volume costs, materials, etc. And not to start the DCT debate but ...
A real motor sports purist doesn't give a fuck about an MT, they care about speed. So it's hilarious listening to people make the "few milliseconds" DCT argument and disqualify themselves from being motor sports purists.
Milliseconds is all racing has ever been about!!
Anyway, another example you mentioned is HiFi equip: you get a more pure "less for much more" case there.
For example, with headphone DACs, you can get a Schiit Modi Multi-bit for $250 or Yggdrasil for $2300. It takes a pretty good set of ears and headphones to detect the difference, but purists appreciate it enough to spend $2000 for it.