"Mr.T" MrT@home wrote in message
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I've seen ATS-1's go in the threes on eBay, and a desktop
PC
with a first rate sound card is a thousand bucks even
today,
times two-we're not an order of magnitude apart.

So why not compare to a S/H PC? A couple of hundred for a
PC
and a couple of hundred for a pro soundcard, will do the
job.
Software is another matter though, but there is reasonable
freeware available, adequate for many people.

The beauty of the PC option is that it can do the same job
as
a number of test instruments, plus automatic data
acquisition,
plus data analysis, plus data storage and presentation
etc.

Yes dedicated instruments have their benefits, but even
multi
million dollar test labs are full of PC's as well, and
have
been for decades.

For example, Dolby Labs is said to own 100's of PC equipped
with Card Deluxe audio interfaces.

You've got to remember that Cal's mind is locked in the
1960s, right down to his proud ownership of Klipsch La
Scalas as his primary high end speaker system.