Re: The price of hifi...

["yhkeppy" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The ultimate has to be houses - =A35,000 for a skuzz-bucket in
<insert=20
least favorite town> to c=A31bn for Buckingham Palace.

k

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark Harrison \(Yahoo!\)"
<mph@a...>=20
wrote:
> Is there any other type of product where the range in price from=20
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 buy=20
a pair of speakers for, say, =A350. Alternatively, the most expensive=20
pair I've heard to date was the Dynaudio Evidence Master, which cost=20
a cool =A351,000 per pair.
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> I'm hard pressed to think of ANY other type of new, commodity,=20
purchase where you get a range of 1,000-fold from the cheapest to=20
the most expensive.
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> New cars, for instance, start at around the =A35k mark for a
Perodua=20
thingy... but the most expensive new cars are around the =A3300k mark -
"only" 60 times more expensive...
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> Laptops are even more closely bunched.... an "el cheapo end of=20
line", but nonetheless new, laptop can be had for =A3350... but
you're=20
hard pressed to find anything on the market for more than 20 times=20
that.
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> Anything? Boats, maybe?
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> Mark
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