Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod

Re:Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod by londons_explore on Sunday June 18, 2023 @06:58AM (#36379066)

For many consumer products, the R&D cost is most of the cost. The actual parts and raw materials are normally only a small fraction of the cost.

Therefore, the $350.00 'rip off' may not in fact be a rip-off. In fact, with the quantity of them they sell, they may barely cover the R&D costs.

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Re:Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod by ilyt on Sunday June 18, 2023 @07:25AM (#36379184)

Not if you're Sennheiser. Can certainly be true for smaller brands

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Re:Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod by londons_explore on Sunday June 18, 2023 @08:05AM (#36379441)

It isn't a given - we have no idea how much R&D went into those... maybe to design the shape of that plastic entire research teams invented new methods of acoustic modelling...

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Re:Sennheiser HD 555 to HD 595 Mod by wahnfrieden on Sunday June 18, 2023 @10:07AM (#36380417)

IP shouldn't exist

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