Hey Srajan, just saw your latest news post on the Goldmund integrated, then looked up your Job INT review. That was $1'699. The new one is £9'500. Looking at your photos, they indeed seem very much alike and as you wrote, the feature set is the same. What could they have possibly done on the inside to warrant such a drastic price increase? Shouldn't we feel ripped off? Holger Scharmacher
The Job range, from what I was told when it still sold, was always one to two circuit generations behind any then current Goldmund equivalents. And it sold direct, not through distributors and dealers who need their own margins. A few years have past since the Job range discontinued. New engineers have joined the company. What they may have changed and how it impacts performance I wouldn't have the faintest. If someone compared the two, would they find the sonic difference worth the radical price difference? No idea. I expect that most Goldmund customers never knew of the Job range. I also expect that whoever buys the 2020 Telos 7 will do so because they're thrilled with its performance. Calling out companies for making a (perhaps hefty) profit doesn't know the first thing about business; nor doing it with Swiss labor. If the product was unreliable, it'd be different. But that's not what Goldmund are known for. Srajan
