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werepossum said:
Am I the only one waiting on those things to say "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"? For that matter, am I the only gamer who hasn't won the lottery?

For the record, I paid $5,000 for my 650 Ninja - brand freakin' new . . .
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Paid close to 7,000 for my speakers back in 1,999

Not 9000. The other 2k were earlier speakers :awe:
 
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sdifox said:
That is nothing. My HT came to about 10k... I spent over 40k on content...
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Wow. That's about what I bring home a year, so it seems . . . exorbitant to me. Here in Tennessee, your content would make an above-average yearly salary.

Note that I am NOT saying you should be taxed more for spending such money. If you earn it, more power to you.

Personally I'd run out of content I wanted to buy long before I hit $40k.
 
werepossum said:
Wow. That's about what I bring home a year, so it seems . . . exorbitant to me. Here in Tennessee, your content would make an above-average yearly salary.

Note that I am NOT saying you should be taxed more for spending such money. If you earn it, more power to you.

Personally I'd run out of content I wanted to buy long before I hit $40k.
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I didn't buy all the content in one year duh. I have been at this since cassette and VHS days.
I saved up a year to splurge on the ht.

My income tax comes to about 1/3 of my income.
 
Craig234 said:
That's a lot on content, though I've spent a lot of thousands also when I think about it. Heck I bought dozens of train travel VHS tapes for nearly $1K I haven't opened yet. Wonder if they still work.
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Yeah content used to be very expensive. Like 30 dollar CDs...
 
Thinking about it, with vinyl and then moving to CD and downloads, I'm probably at ~$18K spent on music. I've spent maybe 20 bucks on movies.
 
IronWing said:
Thinking about it, with vinyl and then moving to CD and downloads, I'm probably at ~$18K spent on music. I've spent maybe 20 bucks on movies.
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I'm probably pretty similar with the music. I've spent a bit more for video, but definitely under $500. Mostly tv shows, and vintage cartoons.
 
IronWing said:
U g l y spells ugly. High end audio can be like that I guess. Wilson's Alexandria looks like the love child of a kiddie car seat and a refrigerator.

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Hmmm…
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$685K/pair
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Elcs said:
$6,000 could get you a nice AVR, some great floorstanders, sub, centre and 2 rears... and probably a budget for a nice TV/Gaming monitor.

I'd struggle to pay more than the $150 equivalent on a soundbar.
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for 6k i could build you an entire home theater with a PJ/screen
 
I don't think I paid that much for my Yamaha AVENTAGE receiver and Klipsch Reference speakers which sounds good enough to me.
 
Craig234 said:
I remember when Star Trek first came out - 2 episodes per VHS tape, I think $30 per tape (or more?) that'd be about $1k for the series.
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I remember paying $99 for Star Wars on Betamax. I still have it. I even still have my HIFI betamax system. Don't even get me started on all the LaserDiscs I bought. Or the $2000 I spent on a hybrid LD/DVD player.
 
Oyeve said:
I remember paying $99 for Star Wars on Betamax. I still have it. I even still have my HIFI betamax system. Don't even get me started on all the LaserDiscs I bought. Or the $2000 I spent on a hybrid LD/DVD player.
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I spent $1600 on a projection tv, and never even hooked it up, it's still sitting on a chair 8 years later.

At least it was instead of the 40" Sony CRT I'd bought that weighed over 300 pounds, but which I hadn't taken delivery of and cancelled, right before CRT's disappeared.
 
Man, you guys are high rollers. I have a bit under 200 CDs and digital albums (man, I hate Apple) and about the same in movies, but I average probably not over $10-12 an album and about the same for movies. And I never had many VHS tapes or laser disks, and certainly not nearly half as many cassettes and 8-tracks as CDs. (And many if not most of the 8-tracks I bought for a buck or two.) And that's my whole life.
 
IronWing said:
U g l y spells ugly. High end audio can be like that I guess. Wilson's Alexandria looks like the love child of a kiddie car seat and a refrigerator.

alexandria-xlf-004-lg.jpg


Hmmm…
wamm-019-lg.jpg

$685K/pair
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I use to work with the son of David Wilson (The founder of Wilson Audio). He's a software developer. Very humble despite being from a very wealthy family. I remember him mentioning the many Ferraris his father owned. He eventually moved back to Provo Utah to be with the family.
 
sdifox said:
I didn't buy all the content in one year duh. I have been at this since cassette and VHS days.
I saved up a year to splurge on the ht.

My income tax comes to about 1/3 of my income.
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You forgot laserdisc 😉
Not poking fun at you, I do have this in my collection after all :

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