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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 23:01:03 +0100


Maybe we've been out too much?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 06 May 2004 22:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The price of hifi...
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> Bloody Hell Phil, twice in one day!!
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> Seriously, I think we both need to get out more ;)
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> Ian.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 May 2004 22:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] The price of hifi...
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> Hookers?
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> Phil=20
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
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> > 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
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> > of line", but nonetheless new, laptop can be had for
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> > 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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> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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