THE GOLDEN AGE OF TURNTABLES!

@petg60, 

"Only thing that changed is media revealing what we were not aware of at the time"

If by this you mean audiophile reissues, even that ain't the truth. The best original vinyl pressings from the Golden Age will sound better than those reissues. Really? Really.

Hi,
probably misstyped, press is the right word. Original pressings do sound better, no argue here.

First Dutch economist are the so called ''mercantilist''. Their
theory was in short: ''buy cheap and sell expensive''. This was
in correspondence  with  their experience with the West Indian 
Company . What they overlooked was  the monopoly position
of this company ensured by their Navy. Ricardo refuted this
theory by asking the question: ''what will happen when we all
try to do so''? 
Tuliponania was also in correspondence with experience. 
Each day higher prices on the stock exchange... 
Well what would happen Ricardo anticipated but, alas, not many
Dutchman.   

Dear petg60, the only thing the audio 'press' does is to hide the truth and try to convince us that the newest is always the best. It is what keeps the business going. They're the industry's mouthpiece.....

Dear Nandric, do you mean Turntables ARE today's Tulips? They seem to follow the "buy cheap and sell expensive" theory of  'mercantilism'. Come to think of it, so do Cartridges. Even more so, as they don't require much stuff to buy at all, cheap or otherwise. But everyday higher prices......

Dear edgewear, As novice in Holland I was wondering about
their expression ''expensive like pepper''. The reason for
my wondering was the fact that one could buy pepper for
1 euro sufficient for, say, 6 months. After ''some'' learning I
discovered why. Their Indian company bought spices for
cheap in Asia and sold expensive to European rich. Some
expressions become ''tradition'' by use despite loosing any
sense. But sense  and ''meaning'' are obviously not the
same . The meaning was to express what expansive means.
Not to denote things which are actually expensive . You must
 have heard about ''piramide funds''.Those are not much
 different then  Dutch ''obsession''  with tulips. 'There are also
''some new kinds of money'' without any Central bank involved.
So despite their ''wrong theorie'' the Dutch were the richest
people in the world. For A.Smit an example for his theory
about ''wealth of nations''. The first ''classical economic theory''.
One need to be modest when his income does not allow
''everything''. So I collect cartridges but abandoned other kinds
of our ''objects of desire and obsession''.