[Trevor]

"hank alrich" wrote in message
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Neil Gould wrote:
Mike Rivers wrote:
On 4/29/2013 10:49 AM, Neil Gould wrote:

Even '70s era hobbiests who bought an 8-track Tascam recorder&
mixer spent multiples of the cost of today's DAW/interface hardware.

That's true. I had $3700 in a TASCAM Model 5 mixer and 80-8 recorder,
and I think close to another grand in the companion dbx noise
reduction unit for it.

Let's not overlook that those were in '70s dollars, too. I bought a new
Porsche back then for under $10k. ;-)

The A80 cost a lot in the mid-1970's, but it also gave nearly thirty
years of service with very little additional cost.

With no mechanics to break down or need alignment, I'm betting a modern
digital interface could do far better as long as you have something it will
work with. In any case replacing one every 5 or ten years would still cost
*far* less over 30 years, after allowing for inflation, depreciation,
maintenance and finance costs.

Trevor.