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The hilarious thing about this thread is that all the so-called audiophiles on here sneering at Apple's attempts at audio are the same people who will go out an happily waste their money on all the lovely snake-oil that is prevalent in the audio industry. Oxygen free gold-plated cables, special power cables etc. etc. ...

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That's not what I'm seeing, are we in the same thread? It is putting these in that same sphere. Most point out that there are very, very competent competitors around half the price and are looking for what makes these different (the snake oil as you say).

I guess most of the difference comes from UX

Audiophiles sneer at that stuff too.

This isn’t marketed at audiophiles though. This is marketed at middle management and execs who have been saving their restaurant money throughout COVID and want to conspicuously flout their success on Zoom calls.

These are not designed for music. They’re designed for Zoom.

Is a $500 anything really a flex for execs? They could be wearing an Audemars Piguet and I wouldn’t think anything of it.

> all the so-called audiophiles on here sneering at Apple's attempts at audio are the same people

Surely not ALL of them.

Or there are commenters like you that would happily throw ANY ammount of money just to get their hands on a new piece of gear with apple logo no matter how shitty it is...

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