Is High End dying?

The high end is good if it is about proper research and development which delivers results.

Unfortunately a good proportion of the high end is as risky as a frozen lasagne!

Just how can you tell that it's real beef and not horse meat?

When put in a position of having to read manufacturers claims I am able to spot horse meat, but are you able?

Graham Slee wrote: Just how can you tell that it's real beef and not horse meat? When put in a position of having to read manufacturers claims I am able to spot horse meat, but are you able?

I was just having that very discussion with my wife as were walking the dog, do we trust what we are told? No, not anymore! I can't tell horsemeat from real beef (we make our own lasagne, by the way) anymore than I can break down manufacturers claims about their latest wares. I know I am not taken in by bling boxes (I have Naim for goodness sake!) I just like how it sounds.............OK I do have a 'pink' RP6 (you can have that one ).
My wife thinks that consumers like to see what their money is getting them by putting amps, etc. in fancy clothes (carved out of one piece of solid gold, don't you know) on them and supplying lint-free gloves to handle them.

I guess by doing it that way you remove the inevitable cash flow problems proper businesses have to cope with.

Obviously proper business owners want such practices to stop. It's not that these items can perform like a Maserati, ours can do that, and are much more reasonably priced.

I have noticed that a few brands are being mentioned above, and OK, it's in context, so I won't play the T&C card, but having been around a few years I can remember some of the claims they made, and obviously some have been taken in.