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WOW! Just for monetary balance that SACD player over 4 times the cost of my entire audio/video system.

75.15.204.210

In Reply to: RE: <strong>REVIEW: Playback Designs MPS-5 SACD Player</strong> posted by mikel on May 31, 2008 at 16:44:54

And I can play LP, Reel to Reel, Cassette, SACD, CD, DVD-Audio and DVD-Video and the total cost was less than $3,500. That's 6 components, speakers, TV and monster cables.

I don't mean to highjack your thread but to those of us who live in the real world, make less than $10 an hour, have to pay rent, medical bills, new music and ever raising gasoline prices, $15,000 for a single component sounds extremely excessive, heck that is more than my car cost! I can understand price no object statement pieces at $1,000 to $5,000, but $15,000 that is way out there!

Here is my Audio/Video System and costs

Yamaha DVD-S1700 DVD/SACD player purchased new for $448.88

Music Hall MMF-5 was $595.04 from Elusive Disc with 10% off coupon.

Nakamich CR-1A Cassette Deck was $39.50 from the Salvation Army Thrift store. Cosmetically perfect and in like new condition, sounds perfect all I had to do was adjust the playback azimuth.

Realistic TR3000 4 Track Reel to Reel tape deck about $250.00 including repairs, deck was DOA

AMC tube pre-amp for less than 1/2 price for $324.00 on eBay.

Adcom GFA-255II 200 Watt power amp for $640.00 as a floor sample.

Infinity Kappa 7 Reference speakers (original ones with 12 inch woofers) I got for half price $694.00 for the pair almost 20 years ago when they were being discontinued.

Sanyo 25-inch flat screen TV was $188.92 from Wal-Mart.

Monster Cable Power Line 2 was $94.00 for 8-foot pair.

Plus various Monster Cable interconnects $179.00

I love my system it produces music, beautiful and exciting music and I could actually afford it!

Mike I am glad you are now back to listening to SACD again, I was just shocked at the extreme cost!

Music is love,
Mono is not music to my ears.
Give me stereo or give me silence!
Teresa

Follow Ups:

It depends on how you look at it.... $15,000 = - jdaniel@jps.net 22:05:40 06/01/08 (0)
I doing my best to work up some pity for you... - bjh 20:20:38 06/01/08 (0)
RE: WOW! Just for monetary balance that SACD player over 4 times the cost of my entire audio/video system. - mikel 10:48:42 06/01/08 (1)
- RE: WOW! Just for monetary balance that SACD player over 4 times the cost of my entire audio/video system. - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 13:58:35 06/01/08 (0)
if nobody could afford a Rolls Royce, they would not be built... - tunenut 09:43:35 06/01/08 (0)
Only indirectly related but…… Siegfried Linkwitz - Robert C. Lang 01:39:47 06/01/08 (0)
If you didn't use Monster cables you'd hear the difference Teresa. :0) [nt] - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 01:19:05 06/01/08 (8)
- I've also tried AudioQuest Turquoise but I like my Monster cables better. - Teresa 02:14:51 06/01/08 (7)
  - Bwahaha, ... what a funny post. Monster Cables ... LOL, this is too much. :) nt - Jack Seaton 08:19:50 06/01/08 (6)
    - RE: Bwahaha, ... what a funny post. Monster Cables ... LOL, this is too much. :) nt - oldmkvi 08:31:22 06/01/08 (5)
      - Even if Monster was the Best, and yet, oddly, the Least Expensive, I wouldn't - powermatic 23:49:53 06/01/08 (3)
        
        RE: Even if Monster was the Best, and yet, oddly, the Least Expensive, I wouldn't - oldmkvi 07:41:13 06/02/08 (2)
        
        Noel seems to think that he owns the word "Monster" and want's the word removed from the song, "Monster Mash". - Jack Seaton 07:48:41 06/02/08 (1)
        
        RE: Noel seems to think that he owns the word "Monster" and want's the word removed from the song, "Monster Ma - oldmkvi 09:09:47 06/02/08 (0)
      - Good for you. Seriously. nt - Jack Seaton 09:00:08 06/01/08 (0)
What does this post have to do with anything? - rich121 23:03:36 05/31/08 (35)
- RE: What does this post have to do with anything? - Robert C. Lang 03:30:44 06/01/08 (0)
- Realism and balance - Teresa 00:06:54 06/01/08 (33)
  - RE: Realism and balance - Ozzy 04:58:52 06/01/08 (1)
    - You left out "for instance if" - Teresa 05:46:57 06/01/08 (0)
  - You sure pushed "The Tape Project" - rich121 02:39:16 06/01/08 (6)
    - You're wasting your time, Rick. - Jack Seaton 08:22:33 06/01/08 (0)
    - I reported the "The Tape Project's" development from the beginning - Teresa 03:19:45 06/01/08 (4)
      - Teresa, you did'nt think that way in December... - rich121 09:00:25 06/01/08 (3)
        
        You didn't read the whole thread, that was an exaggeration on my part as I was making a point - Teresa 14:25:07 06/01/08 (2)
        
        just double speak... - rich121 17:36:04 06/01/08 (1)
        
        If you really read the thread and posted in it you missed the entire point: - Teresa 17:53:21 06/01/08 (0)
  - Realism and balance? I think you are missing something in your analysis - Ted Smith 00:29:53 06/01/08 (23)
    - Hi Ted for even more balance most folks spend $200 - $500 for a complete stereo system and - Teresa 04:49:51 06/01/08 (22)
      - \\\I don't think 1 of out 5,000.000 people would even know a $15,000 component exists ///.... - three_sox 05:16:26 06/01/08 (21)
        
        RE:long division.... - powermatic 09:47:35 06/01/08 (8)
        
        Your mathematics prowess is on par with your comprehension prowess~t - three_sox 15:44:28 06/01/08 (6)
        
        Sigh...I won't argue that point, but I can divide 300,000,000 by 5000. - powermatic 16:59:06 06/01/08 (5)
        
        The point is can you divide 300,000,000 by 5,000,000? Or can’t you read ? ~t - three_sox 17:03:56 06/01/08 (4)
        
        Had no idea the educational system Down Under was even worse than ours. - powermatic 23:51:38 06/01/08 (3)
        
        WTF is wrong with you ???? ~t - three_sox 23:54:47 06/01/08 (2)
        
        Sigh.... I don't think you've a "smile" on your face. - powermatic 00:22:30 06/02/08 (1)
        
        I am calm & I do have a smile on my face but WTF is wrong with you? … - three_sox 01:22:50 06/02/08 (0)
        
        lets hope not (nt) - Teresa 14:27:20 06/01/08 (0)
        
        until this post I didn't know a $15,000 component exists and I am an audiophile, yes I know about $5,000 - Teresa 05:56:18 06/01/08 (11)
        
        "no way would I have ever believed in my wildest dreams $15,000" - rich121 19:11:35 06/01/08 (5)
        
        When I first came to this site there were only two SACD players available the SCD-1, and the 777ES - Teresa 20:07:44 06/01/08 (4)
        
        RE: When I first came to this site there were only two SACD players available the SCD-1, and the 777ES - Ozzy 02:07:12 06/02/08 (2)
        
        Well at least now I won't feel so bourgeois when I pay $250 to replace the stylus on my Goldring cartridge. - Teresa 02:48:03 06/02/08 (1)
        
        RE: Well at least now I won't feel so bourgeois when I pay $250 to replace the stylus on my Goldring cartridge. - Ozzy 09:05:09 06/02/08 (0)
        
        just more double speak... I'm done, please... enough babble... (nt) - rich121 20:24:27 06/01/08 (0)
        
        RE: until this post I didn't know a $15,000 component exists and I am an audiophile, yes I know about $5,000 - Mark Hoepfl 18:09:42 06/01/08 (0)
        
        So I shouldn't tell you how many $80,000 pre-amps I've sold.... - sk 10:25:32 06/01/08 (2)
        
        Yes don't tell me I would rather not know. - Teresa 14:30:20 06/01/08 (1)
        
        RE: Yes don't tell me I would rather not know. - ??? 15:52:35 06/01/08 (0)
        
        RE: until this post I didn't know a $15,000 component exists and I am an audiophile, yes I know about $5,000 - Ozzy 06:14:40 06/01/08 (0)

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