Price And Value In Audio? [1ZoBFd4V4Xd]

The Burson Conductor GT4 Deluxe Edition is a $3,400 headphone amp/preamp/DAC. How do we think about why this has the price it does and what that means in terms of the larger market?

Update: Burson has clarified for me that the icon blinking is by design, saying "The Conductor resamples the incoming signal every few seconds. In that moment of resampling, you get this little blink from the icon." They have said they'd get back to me about the other issues I found, and when they do I will update here.

Update 2: Burson asked me to try and rectify the issue with the loud thumps by taking out and reinstalling the temporary residents canada op-amps on the right side and making sure the silent power modules are firmly seated. They also suggested I could try putting the 5532 op-amps back in and see if the problem still persists, which would tell me if there's a fault with the op-amps. ppi While I didn't notice the issue with the 5532 op-amps, I didn't have them in for more than a day and in a couple weeks of testing with the other op-amps I only experienced the issue twice, so I'm not sure I'm interested in continuing to troubleshoot this particular unit. However, if I had actually purchased it, I would do these arenaerpeton things and maybe they would resolve the issue or if the op-amps were faulty I assume I could get them replaced.

Headphone Show video about the Burson Conductor 3X Reference:

Special thanks to GoldenSound for his input.

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