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    Have we yet defined what is meant by "high end"?

    Perhaps we should turn the question around and ask who spends more than 10% of their net income on audio equipment? Or more revealing who spends more on the hardware than the software?

    Regarding the latter, I have probably spent as much on books as I have on music, and far more on travel (but I'm drifting off-thread with the last).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Have we yet defined what is meant by "high end"?

    Perhaps we should turn the question around and ask who spends more than 10% of their net income on audio equipment? Or more revealing who spends more on the hardware than the software?

    Regarding the latter, I have probably spent as much on books as I have on music, and far more on travel (but I'm drifting off-thread with the last).
    Forteen and sixpence? Its a lot to spend on music
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Forteen and sixpence? Its a lot to spend on music
    Think I spent ten shillings and six pence on a Beatles EP in 1962. Had to save up my pocket money for that.
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    'High End' was a term coined to describe a level of quality, not of price IIRC. Although inevitably the two are connected as you can't really make very good audio equipment cheaply.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Think I spent ten shillings and six pence on a Beatles EP in 1962. Had to save up my pocket money for that.
    Thats was quite a lot but guess it was an ep... singles used to be 6 shillings and 8 pence, and climbed to about 7/6 in early 70's . Cant remember what a album cost, but guessing it was nearer a couple of quid.
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Seventeen Shillings and six pence was the price of an LP for many years.

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