On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 23:40:49 +0000, Laurence Payne wrote:

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 17:02:50 +0000, Alex Butcher
wrote:

This raises an interesting point; a while ago, I was planning on building
a modest home cinema/hi-fi rig and my plan was to treat it much the same
as I treat building computers; good quality central components
(motherboard, PSU, DAC/Amplifier) and Human IO devices (monitor, keyboard,
mouse, speakers) and spend what I can afford on the rest (CPU, memory,
video card, CD transports). The logic behind that is that I
don't want to spend large amounts of money on components that rapidly
become obsolete, but instead spend it on components that will be the last
to be upgraded and for which good quality/stability is necessary.

So you're assuming that you WILL upgrade, when prices drop?

Usually, yes.

And with respect to stuff like CD players; being mechanical, they're more
likely to break than stuff with no moving parts, IME.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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