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From: jabusch@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Are these related???
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 20:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 20:09:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA!jabusch    Jul  8 19:09:00 1985



	I can understand the need to specify the price range which the
equipment should be kept within.  However, telling the net that you have
all of "..." equipment does not necessarily tell how much you tend to
spend on equipment.  There are a lot of price-concious people out there
who still could not tell you what a B&O 8000 receiver cost two years 
ago when someone bought it, or how much the middle range Polk speakers
cost 4 years ago.  Therefore, if you want suggestions for, say, "middle-
range" equipment, you should define what price range means "middle-range"
to you.  I have also worked in this field in the recent past, yet if I
wanted to buy a $400-$500 CD, that's what I would ask for, not a "middle-
range" CD player to go with "blah, blah, blah...".
	Giving a listing of equipment that you have is also not that
accurate in that how do we know whether you got the equipment on a demo
sale at a more reasonable price than that which it may have cost, or
did you perhaps get it through mail-order?  No personal slurs intended
here, but it is fact that you can very often find good equipment at very
reduced prices through channels outside the neighborhood stereo shop.
If you did do that, it is highly probable that someone could over-estimate
the amount of money that you spent and point you toward equipment that you
cannot afford, thereby doing you no good at all.

John Jabusch