Arcam BD: New Details

[btf1980]

Originally Posted by Jodi

But one thing is certain: the Arcam will ANNIHILATE every BD player on the planet.......until Ayre Acoustics finally comes out with it's first BD player that will easily cost thousands more than the Arc........and I DON'T think Ayre is going to step up to the plate.

I don't think so. At this stage, nothing "annihilates" anything. This isn't exotic hifi. People are still correlating expense with performance....tsk..tsk. This is a player that no one has seen, yet you have made it a forgone conclusion that it will be better than anything else, and the only thing that would be better would be a blu-ray player by Ayre simply because that will cost thousands too!! Nice. I suppose the $17,000 Goldmund player is the best player in the world. it has to be....it's $17,0000!!!

Blue diodes are cheap now. DACs don't cost thousands of dollars. The most expensive thing on blu-ray players is actually their body/housing case. The mark-up on this player, and players of this ilk is insane. You'd be surprised at what some esoteric, expensive players and a Panasonic player have in common, very surprised. Sometimes all you need to do is literally slap a shiny case on something, ramble a few nothings about DACs, charge $4K for it, and people will line up.

Did any of you ever wonder why a $300 player like the Panasonic DMP-BD30 had the same -10dB LFE bug on PCM tracks as the much more expensive players from Denon and Marantz? It was almost like they were the same or similar players or something.