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Re: OT but fun - 1939 Radio Shack catalog

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From: Scott Dorsey
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:49
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Mr.T <MrT@home> wrote:
>Speakers are the only item that cost just as much for good ones, and the
>real good ones are better than ever. Dollar for inflation adjusted dollar at
>least.

Right, but speakers should be most of the cost of your system.  Maybe even
more now that the prices on electronics have dropped.   Transducers are
still the hardest thing to build and still the weakest link in the chain.

>(and the crap is just as bad as ever)

Yes, but now it's "Multimedia" crap.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: OT but fun - 1939 Radio Shack catalog
Date: 20 Dec 2008 21:49:21 -0500
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