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In the Thread: Prices in High-End Audio.

Post Subject: The equipment fills the desired purposePosted by rowuk on: 3/17/2014

I really don't get excited about the high priced stuff. They are building to a specific market and if that customer wants to spend 300K on cables, why not? I do not need to justify not being interested or even criticize the "business" plan. King Midas learned his lesson and gilded audio is just that - food without nutritional value for the newly rich.

I had a boss that drove a Porsche with carbon brake discs. You can tell the Porsche has the carbon brakes because the pad holders are yellow. He really needed to tell us about the yellow brakes. He really missed the truly wonderful things about that car - but he had his yellow brakes.

He also has a stereo - ACapella horns, the big ones. He knows that I am a musician and interested in audio and wanted to prove how good his stereo was. I asked him if he had PDQ Bachs "The Triumphs of Thusnelda". He told me how much he liked Bach - but didn't have anything to demonstrate. I said, "that's OK" and he played some girl with banjo stuff.

I think the term is decadence and that does not preceed a Picardie Third..................

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