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The day the iPhone 5 goes on sale, millions of people will happily line up to buy Apple's latest marvel. How could they resist? What with the temptations of the iPhone 5's rumored smaller 19-pin dock connector, in-cell technology that enables the screen's touch sensors and LCD to be consolidated into a single layer, global LTE networks, and oodles of other goodies, it's no wonder Americans on average replace their cell phones every 21.7 months. Computers, digital cameras, tablets, and other gizmos have somewhat longer useful lives, but their owners never develop long-term, decade or more relationships with their stuff. One soulless product inevitably leads to the next, an endless parade of tech. Great audio gear can last practically forever, and not only that, you might want to keep it forever.
Four years ago I wrote about a friend who was using, on a near-daily basis, a turntable he bought 30 years earlier. He's still using it. I have another friend who will never part with his 30-year-old speakers he bought 20 years ago. He has zero interest in buying more modern speakers. So while high-end audio gear is expensive, it might wind up being cheaper to own than buying a series of disposable and inferior-sounding products over the years.
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