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Old 15th Nov 2017, 9:38 am   #23
TonyDuell
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Default Re: Cartridge's Price!

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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post
Easier planning for building a new listening room (provided it has a spire or bell-tower, though) could be attractive to the very wealthy.
I wonder if that spire could be used to conceal a large horn loudspeaker, open end downwards into a room, as Roderick Denman tried before the war.

Related to this thread, some years ago I looked inside a high-end CD player, I will 'name' the company by PM if anyone asks. I was astounded to see it used the cheapest Philips all-plastic deck mechanism, the Philips chipset, and the layout of the PCB had things like decoupling capacitors a fair distance from the ICs (for all the Philips datasheets said they had to be SMD devices under the DIP packaged ICs). It appears you were paying for bad engineering!
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