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> 40+ years of service out of a piece of gear... most of the junk sold today would be lucky to last 1/3 that long Recognizing the reel-to-reel was refurbished
by piker 9y ago
> 40+ years of service out of a piece of gear... most of the junk sold today would be lucky to last 1/3 that long
Recognizing the reel-to-reel was refurbished from the junk yard, in the context of a picture of an entire corner of a teenager's bedroom dedicated to (at the time, relatively) expensive equipment for playing music and communicating with people, this may be a bit tone deaf. Maybe the "junk" sold today would indeed last 1/3 the life span of some of this stuff, but it would cost an inflation-adjusted fraction of the price and fit into a low-to-middle income teenager's pocket. Other than the speakers, of course.
- Clubber 9y agoI agree stuff was more expensive relative to today, but I wonder how the cost would fair compared to the buying power of the average income at the time. Also, I suspect most of that stuff was second hand.
- emodendroket 9y agoNot very well. Whatever else you might say of the current economic arrangement, we're definitely awash in cheaper consumer goods.