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Originally Posted by Kees de Visser  My guess: R&D and marketing budget in combination with relatively low production quantities. Quite some budget is going into R&D of details that might or might not be audible. The big question is (and will remain) what is good enough ? |
Well, you can get a $5 AD chip. The AD chip isn't the hard part though, it's the analog front end you need to put with it. Ultra-clean power supplies, discreet input stages, discreet alias filters, super-low-jitter clocks, all that stuff that needs to go with the $5 chip gets as expensive at boutique mic pres. Nobody is charging $10,000 for the AD chip, you're paying that for all the other stuff in the box.