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Anyone complaining about the price of Blu-ray players should take a look at the Eidos 20 BD from Goldmund. This thing has a price tag of almost $17,000 and we have absolutely no idea why. You could buy a PS3 instead and have enough money left over to buy a decent car.

As a result of last week's news in regards to the format wars, Goldmund decided to launch the Eidos 20 BD earlier than we had originally planned to capture the attention of the industry that believes in the superior technological merits of the Blu-ray format
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better come with a hand job as well and some lube for my wallet because that price tag would be straight raping it.
 
Well this is high end A/V equipment. It's for those folks who have to have the best. Some folks dumps millions into their A/V setups, this would make up for part of that.

If you think this is nuts, you should search up for Pear HDMI cables.
 
Ockie said:
Well this is high end A/V equipment. It's for those folks who have to have the best. Some folks dumps millions into their A/V setups, this would make up for part of that.

If you think this is nuts, you should search up for Pear HDMI cables.
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Pretty much.

These guys make some nice looking setups though.
 
Ockie said:
Well this is high end A/V equipment. It's for those folks who have to have the best. Some folks dumps millions into their A/V setups, this would make up for part of that.

If you think this is nuts, you should search up for Pear HDMI cables.
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I enjoy seeing the million dollar setups just like everyone else, but at what point are you paying money just to say you paid the most? Unless this player offers a one of a kind experience, which maybe it does.
 
theDreamer said:
I enjoy seeing the million dollar setups just like everyone else, but at what point are you paying money just to say you paid the most? Unless this player offers a one of a kind experience, which maybe it does.
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If you have the money, flaunt it. :D
 
he new Goldmund Eidos 20 BD player embodies all the high-tech refinement Goldmund has developed during the last 20 years : Its "AC-Curator" Power supply circuit which dramatically improves picture and sound stability and dynamics, and the "Mechanical Grounding" construction which removes from the player mechanism spurious vibrations blurring the Video signal and increasing Jitter. In addition, the new Eidos 20 BD uses the Goldmund "Magnetic Damper", a device lowering the reading errors that the company kept only for its top models before.
The new player can play DVD and CD's in addition to the Blu-Ray discs. But the standard of these is not up to the level encountered in the other players of the company and that its design aimed at improving the BD disks in priority.
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Sounds like that played is made out of gold-plated bullshit.
 
lol the way they keep quoting words like "AC-Curator" and "Magnetic Damper" and all, I have an image of Dr Evil talking about the merchandise.
 
Azhar said:
lol the way they keep quoting words like "AC-Curator" and "Magnetic Damper" and all, I have an image of Dr Evil talking about the merchandise.
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ROLF !! Why does the article remind me of the cable/interconnect forum on Head Fi ?
 
High end AV is home to some of the most gullible customers and shameless scammers on the planet. Audio especially is such a subjective experience that people will absolutely swear they hear a difference from all kinds of gadgets and technobabble bullshit enhancements that have no effect whatsoever. I remember reading about a test where the entire subject group heard a noticeable improvement in sound quality in a recording, when they were just told the equipment had been switched to better stuff. In fact, no change was made.
 
Its funny how smart people who manage to make lots of money get fooled to buy overpriced bullshit equipment with fancy words like Magnetic Dumper and AC-Curator and Flux Capacitor
 
Vorazan said:
Its funny how smart people who manage to make lots of money get fooled to buy overpriced bullshit equipment with fancy words like Magnetic Dumper and AC-Curator and Flux Capacitor
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I think you are forgetting about status.


Smart IMO is not buying a Lamborghini for instance... however, it does meet social status goals.
 
Ockie said:
I think you are forgetting about status.


Smart IMO is not buying a Lamborghini for instance... however, it does meet social status goals.
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Pretty much.

Don't forget that normal middle class people do this all of the time. Just not to the extent that the rich do. People buy the luxury suv over the minivan as they think it makes them look beter. They will go out and buy very high end golf clubs or whatnot as they think it will help them(a cheaper set and lessons would be better). List can go on.

People with money enjoy spending it.
 
An audiofool and his money are soon parted.

It doesn't matter how much money you have, common sense "should" prevail when considering a purchase like this.

I see it every day. People are born into wealth or get lucky in life. They have way too much money and not enough common sense to manage it (my brother-in-law is one). Instead of using their money to do something productive, they drop hundreds of thousands of dollars on overpriced electronics, vehicles and luxuries. Ironically, they're never happy. They continually strive to buy the "next best thing" and are never satisfied with what they already have...
 
I'm sure it looks nice but there is such a thing as diminishing returns...
 
For that price, it better have audio outputs that sport an all-tube preamp and and each channel best have it's own all-tube Class AB power amp packing some gorgeously wound transformers (each channel would need its own). And it better be wired to military spec like old Hiwatt amps.
 
GilmourD said:
For that price, it better have audio outputs that sport an all-tube preamp and and each channel best have it's own all-tube Class AB power amp packing some gorgeously wound transformers (each channel would need its own). And it better be wired to military spec like old Hiwatt amps.
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Oh, yeah... Solid-gold wire. LOL
 
Steve said:
Anyone complaining about the price of Blu-ray players should take a look at the Eidos 20 BD from Goldmund. This thing has a price tag of almost $17,000 and we have absolutely no idea why. You could buy a PS3 instead and have enough money left over to buy a decent car.
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I wouldn't call $16,499 money for a decent car. Maybe money for a nice down payment on something that sucks, but I can't think of one car that's new for $16k that I'd actually drive.
 
I don't want to see any shaky bits on my LCD. It could ruin the movie.
 
GilmourD said:
For that price, it better have audio outputs that sport an all-tube preamp and and each channel best have it's own all-tube Class AB power amp packing some gorgeously wound transformers (each channel would need its own). And it better be wired to military spec like old Hiwatt amps.
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It needs to polish my penis for that price.
 
Dan_D said:
I wouldn't call $16,499 money for a decent car. Maybe money for a nice down payment on something that sucks, but I can't think of one car that's new for $16k that I'd actually drive.
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What's [H] payin' these days?? :eek:
 
What the fuck. Audiophile retards need to go back to being Necrophiles or whatever their day job is, this is nuts!

But, it's "Swiss Made", so the clock on the front will keep perfect time. That's totally worth it.
 
Dan_D said:
It needs to polish my penis for that price.
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Would you trust a machine to do that? Even prostitutes are cheaper. Heck, just check MySpace. You can find a girl on there free that would do an amazing job of polishing your knob. :p
 
There is absolutely no way I would pay $17,000 for a blue ray player. Absolutely rediculous.
 
GilmourD said:
For that price, it better have audio outputs that sport an all-tube preamp and and each channel best have it's own all-tube Class AB power amp packing some gorgeously wound transformers (each channel would need its own). And it better be wired to military spec like old Hiwatt amps.
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Power consumption be damned, Pure Class A power amp please!

AVS forums are saying this unit is a rebaged Pioneer player with some tweaks. Other high end manufactures do this but not to the tune of $16,999+.
 
NKDietrich said:
What the fuck. Audiophile retards need to go back to being Necrophiles or whatever their day job is, this is nuts!

But, it's "Swiss Made", so the clock on the front will keep perfect time. That's totally worth it.
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Only problem is - the clock is automatic - every other day you have to pick up the whole damn player and shake the shit out of it for 5 minutes....
 
tesfaye said:
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AVS forums are saying this unit is a rebaged Pioneer player with some tweaks. Other high end manufactures do this but not to the tune of $16,999+.
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Yeah that sounds about right! :p

I'll still wait for prices to go down, and for a real standard to emerge. I'll be this thing isn't even 2.0 compliant!
 
for that price it had better be able to give me a hummer while I relax on the couch and watch a movie.
 
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