Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much?

My bad!

i apologize to the readers...But how do you do that?

I have not realized this inconvenience....

Thanks....

@mahgister Please let me know if I can help you with the link feature they improved when Audiogon updated this site. IMO, linking long articles is a better option than loading up the thread pages with inserted articles. For example, here is a link to the Central Bank article you posted. Best regards.

@mahgister - When you click on "Add your response" and begin posting your response in a thread, you will see a header just above where you are typing that provides options such as Bold, Italicized, Underlined...etc.  Proceed to the right and just right of the Emoji option you will see what appears to be a chain link.  Follow these steps:

• Copy the web address (i.e., URL) of the article, post, video clip, etc. that you wish to share
• Highlight a word or phrase within your post that you want to use to link the web address 
• Click on the chain link symbol shown in the header 
• Within the dialog box that opens, paste the URL in the box titled "URL" and click "OK"
• The word or phrase you previously highlighted can then by toggled by readers to take them to the link you uploaded

I hope this helps.

Yes, thanks for the help....

My deepest respect...

@unreceivedogma 

I’ll raise you one on that. I think the Ukraine War is really a conspiracy concocted by the Kremlin and the Pentagon. 

Rilly? You should consider reading more things and think about topics in your wheelhouse. The statement quoted from you above is simply beyond logic.

What was the original question of this discussion? 

I do believe that high end audio equipment has escalated in price above the levels of inflation that we are seeing. A lot of the more expensive equipment is cutting edge and requires higher quality components and fabrication. Small runs cost more and the materials that are being used are more exotic than in the past. It only makes sense that these items would be escalating in price ahead of inflation. 

Off topic. I absolutely believe they will need to start mining asteroids to acquire the minerals required to green the world economy. We cannot pull out the required resources from this planet without making it an even bigger environmental disaster.