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Originally Posted by airon
What the fuck is Nagra doing making something like THAT !!?
Are those people turning in to a company like Burmester, who kit out your yacht with $50000 stereos ?
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That's a thought that crossed my mind.
Possibly $$ --- if they sell a few units, it'll make a big difference towards their bottom line.
Nagra is well known, and has been for decades, for manufacturing expensive but high quality audio recording devices that were, and are, used on film sets. They are expensive, several thousand $$, but well built, and take many different audio inputs; they are robust and won't break down; and audio recording professionals swear by them.
Paying $3,000 for an essential piece of equipment makes perfect sense to me; paying $60k for a pre amp for a home stereo system does not. But then again, the people which they are targeting maybe have a different perspective. If you can afford a $1 million Ferrari, and $500 bottles of wine for dinner, what is more cool than to impress your friends with the latest and greatest: the ultimate pre-amp?