Originally Posted by
Mikeandvan
That may be so, but how does manufacturing a £100 cart cost exponentially more than manufacturing a £100 one?
Simple.
Better quality materials, cost more.
Tighter tolerances, cost more.
Specialist processes, cost more.
Better diamond profiles, cost more.
R&D to increase performance, costs more.
And so it goes, with each step adding costs, and if done correctly improving performance.
Case in point being AT mm carts, the 91 starts at around £29 then you go to the 95s that run from around £45 upto £190, all with differing levels of performance that can be plainly heard.
If you can't afford it, or object to the rationale of pricing/peoples desire to aim for better, then ignore such threads and keep your negativety to your self.
For me, Iceman and others on here the Hana ML has proved itself in the real world by the level of performance it produces against our previous benchmark carts.
The ML, in the real world represents very good vfm simply by the way it performs, producing a sound that equals or exceeds that of carts that are hawked out at 2x to 4x its retail price, its that good.
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