New €1,084,000 Goldmund mono amplifier

[Ruediger]

When your target group is young people that just inherited, desperate for attention... ?

 

[Mart68]

When your target group is young people that just inherited, desperate for attention... ?

I don't think that's the market. If it was it would be vanishingly small. I don't think there is really a market. It's a statement piece to get publicity for the brand. They'll maybe sell a few over a few years but that's irrelevant, it's not the primary purpose of such a product.

 

[Ageve]

I preferred Goldmund when they used to totally encapsulate Pioneer? players in their own larger cases.
Keith

Yes, Pioneer DV585A.

Goldmund Eidos 18CD:

Pioneer DV585A:

 

[Beave]

And that Pioneer model has an Onkyo twin, ie, there's also an Onkyo model that uses those same circuit boards. I think it would be the Onkyo DV-SP404.

 

[NTTY]

Lemme guess... it's a monoblock? Who is going to ship one of these to Amir? I'd dearly love to see what percentage of that cost could get me equivalent or superior performance.

You don’t ship the amplifier to the reviewer, but the reviewer to the amplifier

 

[Soria Moria]

How big is he? Looks about the same size as a floor standing loudspeaker

 

[TonyJZX]

the people who can afford this ie. the bezos of the world are too busy to listen to music

 

[Kremmen]

the people who can afford this ie. the bezos of the world are too busy to listen to music

And too busy, it seems, to sort out Amazon's substandard music app.

 

[AdrianusG]

Now i just wonder how empty it is on the inside,
what could possibly be inside, to justify the outrageous price?
Or it's similar to the Tardis, bigger inside, so that inside there's a complete professional
recording studio

 

[Imakeller]

Now i just wonder how empty it is on the inside,
what could possibly be inside, to justify the outrageous price?
Or it's similar to the Tardis, bigger inside, so that inside there's a complete professional
recording studio

It would be interesting to pop the hood on that bad boy and see what’s what. Hypex or Purifi? lol

 

[kemmler3D]

The sad thing is there are people than can and will buy this... yet that money could have gone to a decent charity instead, rather than to the owners of Goldmund sleeping on a bed of cash.


JSmith

For this kind of product I would suspect it's almost a custom job. The number of people who can spend $1M on an amp and would actually do so probably fit on one super yacht. They probably have a small list of people in mind when they make a product like this, maybe just one.

Alternatively it's just as likely to be a branding / PR exercise, not intended primarily for sale. You get some headlines for making the million dollar amp. You can put it in a showroom and say "this amp costs a million dollars." Guess what, the $80,000 amp next to it sounds almost (we know exactly) as good! A steal! And eventually you can sell someone the "million dollar" amp for a mere $120k as part of a package deal, floor model and all that.

IMO the odds of it being a marketing tactic are higher than it being a product earnestly intended for sale at this price.

 

[Nutul]

I only read the thread's title, and instinctively jumped in just to say the all-over repeated mantra: this is pure BS.
Well, TBH I must admit that 3 or 4 comments I did indeed read, but it doesn't make any difference...
And of course agree with the "a fool and his money are soon departed".

 

[JeffS7444]

I see this as proof that ultra-wealthy people get bored too. I imagine it's very nicely finished inside and out, and built from lavish amounts of costly materials. But hedonic adaptation being what it is, it's owner will eventually find that it's just an amplifier after all, and maybe not the easiest thing to live with.

 

[PjV]

Meh. I'm waiting for an improved version, the 9800 mk2 or even 9900.
Should be at least 1.5 Mega$, otherwise it hasn't improved enough...

 

[Matt_Holland]

I believe the market is China.
I visited a few times back I was doing international sales for an audio manufacturer. The super rich audiophile exists there like no other country in my experience. Many large custom built listening rooms and crazy large speakers. It’s pretty wild.

 

[egellings]

It would be interesting to pop the hood on that bad boy and see what’s what. Hypex or Purifi? lol

I'm curious, too. Just what do dey put in dem tings?

 

[Dialectic]

I believe the market is China.
I visited a few times back I was doing international sales for an audio manufacturer. The super rich audiophile exists there like no other country in my experience. Many large custom built listening rooms and crazy large speakers. It’s pretty wild.

I would guess that the market for this product in each of Hong Kong and Shanghai is larger than the market for it in the entire United States.

 

[MRC01]

This 9800 isn't on their site yet, but I took a look at the Telos 8800, the biggest amp on their site.
It's rated a 1400W into 8 ohms, says "max power", they don't say whether it's continuous.
It draws 750W from the wall at 1/8 power into 8 ohms, so that's about 4.3 times more than it delivers to the speakers.
If it's linear, max power would draw 750 * 8 = 6 kW from the wall.
There's no way it can do that on 115V AC power, since that would draw at least 52A (likely more).
But it does accept 230V power, which you'd have to use in order to get full power.
Even then, it could draw 26A at 230V... crazy!
It weighs 265Kg, 583 pounds. And I thought my 60 lb. amplifier was heavy!
It says it's a standard class A/B amplifier - nothing fancy.

Now take all of the above to the "next level" to reach the new 9800. No doubt it sounds like a million bucks! (whatever that sounds like)

 

[Chrispy]

LOL

 

[Pearljam5000]

The distributor said the company sold 60 pairs(60 million dollars?)
And it's completely new on the market
Wow