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In Reply to: RE: Mutatis mutandis, I would like to think posted by RGA on April 25, 2015 at 17:13:35
I think that in the High End Audio Wars (spoiler! That is Star Wars Prequel No. 37!), there are as many middle-class or even working-class questers as there are plutocrats.
I know you are a musician. Do you know anything about big-time bass-boat fishing? Yes, you can go fishing for bass in a $399 rowboat with a $29 fishing rig. But a serious boat can easily with all electronics and gear, cost $40,000. And that is (pardon me) basically a working-class hobby.
I once filled in at a foreign-car garage, writing work orders and cashing out customers for a friend whose life was falling apart as his wife died, and he had built a Spec Miata tube-frame race car for a client, and that car ended up costing $120,000.
First time I ever beheld in the flesh a Hewlett swappable-gears rear end, or Carello remote-reservoir adjustable shocks, $1200 each. External-belt cam drive. One could have spent half the money to get around Lime Rock faster in a Sports Racing D car like a Radical--but this guy had to win the class he was in. And he was doing OK, but not über-rich.
PEOPLE HAVE HOBBIES.
As the Irish song goes, "If there's food in the house, and nobody's sick..."
jm
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have a $40K pick-up, a $10K trailer and two snowmobiles, $10-15K each.
I have a 1997 F-150, some cross-country skis, and a $10-15K stereo. But somehow *I* am the elitist!
Middle class folks can afford a system like mine, it just means making it a priority. Music is important to me, a shiny new car and motorized toys are not.
I use the analogy: if a guy who can't afford it borrows $43,000 for a new Audi, his neighbors say, "How nice for them!"
But if a guy who can afford it spends $20,000 on a pair of loudspeakers he will listen to at least 10 hours every week, the neighborhood ladies quietly hand his wife divorce-lawyer business cards.
jm
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