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RE: The price of hifi...


  • Subject: RE: The price of hifi...
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 22:47:34 +0100


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> From: Mark Harrison (Yahoo!) [mailto:mph@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 06 May 2004 22:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] The price of hifi...
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> Is there any other type of product where the range in price=20
> from cheapest-dearest is so big?
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> We were invited to an evening with Meridian and Dynaudio on=20
> tuesday, and jolly good fun it was, too.
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> However, it struck me that one can go into Richer Sounds, and=20
> buy a pair of speakers for, say, =A350. Alternatively, the most=20
> expensive pair I've heard to date was the Dynaudio Evidence=20
> Master, which cost a cool =A351,000 per pair.
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> I'm hard pressed to think of ANY other type of new,=20
> commodity, purchase where you get a range of 1,000-fold from=20
> the cheapest to the most expensive.
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> New cars, for instance, start at around the =A35k mark for a=20
> Perodua thingy... but the most expensive new cars are around=20
> the =A3300k mark - "only" 60 times more expensive...
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> Laptops are even more closely bunched.... an "el cheapo end=20
> of line", but nonetheless new, laptop can be had for =A3350...=20
> but you're hard pressed to find anything on the market for=20
> more than 20 times that.
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> Anything? Boats, maybe?
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> Mark
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