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Article #1652Re: OT but fun - 1939 Radio Shack catalog
From: Scott Dorsey
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:04
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:04
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Mr.T <MrT@home> wrote: >And the point you seem to miss is that if you really want good 5.1 or 7.1 >sound, why expect to pay less (in real terms) than many did for 2 channel >sound in the seventies? People would be expecting to pay 3 months wages for >a HT receiver alone. It's just not gonna happen! Computers are a lot cheaper than they were in the seventies. Television sets are a lot cheaper than they were in the seventies. So people expect stereo systems to be cheaper too. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way; transducer technology hasn't changed so much. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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