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Fair point, but...

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In Reply to: RE: $17,000 posted by DustyC on March 20, 2008 at 12:40:50

...I don't entirely agree. The beauty of audio is that you've got the whole continuum from well-optimized mass-market stuff up to made-by-hand boutique stuff. You get to choose. And naturally the latter costs more.

Still, a hand-made car (what would that be, a Bentley?) costs many hundreds of thousands of dollars, so your $17K is indeed on the low, mass-produced end of the range. Fact is, if I could play in that league (boutique cars) I might be interested--but I can't, not by a mile. Yet there are some areas where I can enjoy high-end, boutique stuff. I drink good coffee, have a few pieces of nice hand-made furniture, and I've started to collect smoking pipes.

BTW, pipes are VERY similar to audio in this respect, but cheaper. All you need for a pipe is a chunk of wood that doesn't catch on fire a bowl carved in it, and a mouthpiece with a hole that goes through with the bowl. You can get a pipe meeting the minimum technical requirements for $30 (or $5 if you go for a corn cob). A $1000 pipe is hardly different at all, technically. But people who take pipe-smoking seriously will swear to you that a really nice high-grade pipe, carved by a master, isn't just prettier, but smokes better. Is it worth it? I dunno--is it worth it to you? Can you taste the difference? If you smoke Prince Albert it probably isn't.

Jim

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