chinese company purchases stax?

[Spychedelic Whale]

Sweet! Thanks mate.

Got the 007 wrong,

SR-007MK2 €2.588,00

SR-009 €4.704,00

SR-507 €931,00

SRM007tII €2.544,00

SRM-006tS €1.555,00

3 370$ for the O2, Jesus..

Edited December 18, 2011 by Spychedelic Whale

[Tyll Hertsens]

I think I have an error, can one of our Japan members find me the price of an 007Mk2 in Japan please?

Edited December 18, 2011 by Tyll Hertsens

[Tyll Hertsens]

Here's why I'm asking. It looks like the thing that's getting marked up is the 007II. Either I have the Japan price wrong, or the gouging is being done on the most popular product?

[John Buchanan]

Is it any wonder that Australians import something like the SR-007 themselves? You can buy two of them for the Australian price (taking into account customs charges), so who cares about a warranty?

[Tyll Hertsens]

Is it any wonder that Australians import something like the SR-007 themselves? You can buy two of them for the Australian price (taking into account customs charges), so who cares about a warranty?

I think I might have that price wrong, but yeah, some people are really getting beat up. The Europeans particularly.

The customers not so much in the US, but the dealers are only getting 20 points or so. Not much incentive for them.

Edited December 18, 2011 by Tyll Hertsens

[Spychedelic Whale]

Here's why I'm asking. It looks like the thing that's getting marked up is the 007II. Either I have the Japan price wrong, or the gouging is being done on the most popular product?

Try this page

Edited December 18, 2011 by Spychedelic Whale

[Torpedo]

I still haven't heard from the distributor in my country, but be prepared...

[Spychedelic Whale]

I still haven't heard from the distributor in my country, but be prepared...

I bet won't be as bad in Portugal with our 23% tax

Edited December 18, 2011 by Spychedelic Whale

[Tyll Hertsens]

Try this page

But that says SR-007A. Is that the same thing as a SR-007Mk2

[Spychedelic Whale]

But that says SR-007A. Is that the same thing as a SR-007Mk2

Yes its the name used for the Japanese market.

[arnaud]

Here are retail prices in japan in jpy (pricejapan is insanely low):

Sr007a:

-Dynamic audio 5555 (web order): 189000

-Yodobashi: 210000 (+10% discount for local resident when paying cash, 8% cc)

-fujiya avic (web order): 168000

Sr009:

-Dynamic audio 5555 (web order): 349650

-Yodobashi: 368000  (+10% discount for local resident when paying cash, 8% cc)

-fujiya avic (web order): 349650

[arnaud]

Note that the yodobashi prices (before discount) are the msrp in japan. Same price is displayed / offered at the audio stores (such as dyna).

Web order prices are typically like what I have shown above (fujiya and dyna).

PriceJapan is very low, as if they're selling with virtually no margin ( because they don't have actual retail store like the others I suppose).

In lights of the prices I gave, retail in the us is pretty reasonable it seems (considering there has to be a distributor and such entity has operating costs...).

Not sure about sales volumes, I thought domestic sales were lower than export though.

[complin]

Here are retail prices in japan in jpy (pricejapan is insanely low):

Sr007a:

-Dynamic audio 5555 (web order): 189000

-Yodobashi: 210000 (+10% discount for local resident when paying cash, 8% cc)

-fujiya avic (web order): 168000

Sr009:

-Dynamic audio 5555 (web order): 349650

-Yodobashi: 368000 (+10% discount for local resident when paying cash, 8% cc)

-fujiya avic (web order): 349650

One of the main problems of importing into Europe is that you have to pay VAT @20% and Duty 3% and just to add insult to injury they levy these charges on the postage and insurance cost as well !! So you need to factor in an uplift of between 25% to 30%, depending on country, you have to pay to the government before they will release the goods to you Then there are the payment costs as the banks or paypal take their slice by offering you crap exchange rates and make a $30 charge just for processing the payment.

Edited December 19, 2011 by complin

[complin]

In the UK the SR-009 retails @ £3695 which @ current exchange rates is $5719

http://www.custom-cable.co.uk/headphones/stax/stax-sr-009-top-of-the-line-open-air-type-electrostatic-earspeakers.html

[arnaud]

complin: I've been away from France for too long, I've forgotten that the US and Japan have relatively low VAT compared to European countries. It's bound to increase in Japan (the prices I quoted include 5% local tax), but likely not in the 20% range...

Note to Tyll: you provably should account for local tax in your calculations, shouldn't you?

[complin]

complin: I've been away from France for too long, I've forgotten that the US and Japan have relatively low VAT compared to European countries. It's bound to increase in Japan (the prices I quoted include 5% local tax), but likely not in the 20% range...

Note to Tyll: you provably should account for local tax in your calculations, shouldn't you?

I think Australia has quite high GST as well 19% or more?

[Beefy]

Australia is only 10% GST. But we do pay a very high ADT (asshole distributor tax).

[Torpedo]

Systems SRS-005S SR-003 + SRM-252S € 676 € 798

SRS-2170 SR-207 + SRM-252S € 863 € 1.018

SRS-3170 SR-307 + SRM-323S € 1.433 € 1.691

SRS-4170 SR-407 + SRM-006tS € 2.095 € 2.472

SR-007MK2 SYSTEM SR-007 MK2 + SRM-006tS € 4.845 € 5.718

SR-007 MK2 SYSTEM 2 SR-007 MK2 + SRM-727II € 4.643 € 5.479

Earspeakers SR-003 € 210 € 247

SR-207 € 396 € 468

SR-307 € 449 € 530

SR-407 € 555 € 655

SR-507 € 883 € 1.042

SR-007 MK2 € 2.562 € 3.023

SR-009 € 4.656 € 5.494

Amplifiers SRM-252S € 467 € 551

SRM-323S € 984 € 1.161

SRM-006tS € 1.539 € 1.817

SRM-600 LIMITED € 1.767 € 2.085

SRM-007tII € 2.519 € 2.972

SRM-727II € 2.312 € 2.728

Right most column includes the 18% VAT.

Edited December 19, 2011 by Torpedo

[spritzer]

The Stax Omegas (SR-Omega and SR-007Mk1) had a list price of 180KYen from 1993 to 2007 when the Mk2/A was released and it was raised to 189.000Yen.

[Tyll Hertsens]

Alrightythen ....

http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/chinese-speaker-maker-edifier-purchases-famous-electrostatic-headphone-maker-stax

[Tyll Hertsens]

Would somebody do me a favor and post a link to it in this thread.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/584408/breaking-news-chinese-company-acquires-stax

[digger945]

Thread's locked.

[Tyll Hertsens]

Fuck me. Any active Stax thread will do.

[morphsci]

That is a truly excellent article my man. Congrats. (one for each page)

[Spychedelic Whale]

Aren't the money graphs to small ?