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Saturn Price suprising?

Posted by hairydog (A) on November 13, 2006 at 16:46:24

The price of the new Rega Saturn was a bit of a suprise to me. I own the Apollo and the Jupiter, and may eventually get a Saturn, but I did'nt expect it to be 1400 more than the Apollo. The Apollo is the same price as the previous Planet 2000. The Saturn uses the same exact tranport and software as the Apollo, which is after all an inexpensive cd rom drive. It has essentially the same casing save for the front panel improvment, but has one more DAC, a slightly bigger power transformer and higher grade capacitors etc. The differences in parts cost dont seem to make sense relative to the price jump. If they could make the Apollo for the same as the Planet, what's in a Saturn that makes it cost so much more? I once owned an Arcam FMJ cd23, it had a whole bunch of improvements over the Alpha 9 including a much better case than the alpha 9 which was all plastic, an additional power supply, and better vibration damping- and it was only 500 more than the Alpha 9. I'm sure the Saturn has performance comparable to players in its price range and beyond, but I doubt it cost Rega anywhere near two and a half times more to build a Saturn than to Build an Apollo. I was just wondering if anyone else was a little miffed by the price difference. Does anyone who had an Apollo feel the Saturn is 1400 dollars better? I have yet to hear one.

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