ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (09/26/85)
I see in Audio magazine's annual equipment guide that the most expensive phono cartridge on the market is the Kiseki Lapis Lazuli. It costs $3500, and a replacement stylus is $2100. Now, if you figure a stylus lasts at most 600 hours before it must be replaced, you discover that it costs $3.50 per hour to play records! Wouldn't that affect your enjoyment of the music?
dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne Perry) (09/26/85)
<> add to the cost of tht cartridge, a turntable for $6k and Wilson Audio speakers at approx $45k and the amps and preamp for $?10k. With an expected useful lifetime of say 5 years - 61k/5 is then an additional $12.2k for that 600 hundred hours - say 2 hours a day - thts approx $26 per hour. If you are willing to spend that much, you can sit in the front row every night at Carnegie Hall (or you favorite place) for less than that and have the real thing, not a cheap -:) imitation. Dewayne
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (09/27/85)
[] Well, Carnegie Hall, perhaps, and other cheap fare, but people who spend that much on audio (are there really any) would want to hear Springsteen (sp?), the thankful (grateful?) dead, and other such top drawer stuff and $26 an hour might save them money. :-) -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley) (09/30/85)
> I see in Audio magazine's annual equipment guide that the most expensive > phono cartridge on the market is the Kiseki Lapis Lazuli. It costs > $3500, and a replacement stylus is $2100. > > Now, if you figure a stylus lasts at most 600 hours before it must > be replaced, you discover that it costs $3.50 per hour to play > records! Wouldn't that affect your enjoyment of the music? Probably not, if your financial situation is such that you can spend $3500 on a cartridge in the first place. In fact, I have a feeling that a large percentage of those people who can afford such things have them for the sake of having them rather than to listen to them. In this case, their enjoyment won't be affected at all, and it will take a long time before they need to replace the stylus. - Greg Paley
rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (10/01/85)
> Well, Carnegie Hall, perhaps, and other cheap fare, but people who > spend that much on audio (are there really any) would want to hear > Springsteen (sp?), the thankful (grateful?) dead, and other such > top drawer stuff and $26 an hour might save them money. Hmph. The Dead in prime time (New Years, a loooong show) have barely hit $25. A decent opera ticket in Denver is >= $50. $15 is closer. If you're gonna figure cost, figure transportation too (amortizing the cost of the car just as you amortize the cost of a cartridge). You should also figure in insurance and/or theft probability for the ultra-hi-end audio system--and for the car parked in the nasty high crime district in the center of the city that you have to go to for substantial live music. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.