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"\"BTW I'll bet Weiss upgrades aint cheap. Do they even do upgrades?\" \n  \nThe Weiss Medea can be upgraded to the Medea + (new DAC and new analog output stages).  I am sure you are right that this upgrade will not be cheap. \n  \nOne thing that is nice about Ayre is that they generally design solid products, and offer upgrades, rather than new models whenever possible, and the upgrades are often very reasonable in price.  Many companies would just introduce new models, and force the customer to buy the new model if they wanted the performance upgrade.  The upgrade from K5-xe to K5-xeMP for my preamp gave a significant performance improvement (as if I purchased a higher price preamp) for a very affordable price. \n  \nDistributors who import high end audio components have a lot of expenses (shipping costs, taxes, import duties, the cost of running a service department, and marketing costs) which do not apply to non imported products, the distributors have to charge more to offset their costs, it is as simple as that. \n  \n  \n  \n"
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