The Acoustic Guitar Forum

Go Back   The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > RECORD

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #61  
Old 12-25-2016, 09:23 AM
Yamaha Man Yamaha Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,927
Default

My point is most normal people don't buy $3,000 mics or $4,000 guitars. Most of the people I know are struggling just to get by.
__________________
Alvarez 66 CE
Alvarez AJ80CE
Takamine F340
Guild F-2512 Deluxe CE
Ibanez Acoustic Bass 12 M1
Martin 12 string X Series
Harley Benton Telecaster
EVH Wolfgang

Formerly known as Martin Maniac.....









M
Reply With Quote
  #62  
Old 12-25-2016, 09:49 AM
KevWind's Avatar
KevWind KevWind is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Edge of Wilderness Wyoming
Posts: 19,877
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Maniac View Post
My point is most normal people don't buy $3,000 mics or $4,000 guitars. Most of the people I know are struggling just to get by.
No that's totally incorrect, "normal people" spans a huge variation in amounts of disposable income, and "normal people" spend vastly different amounts of money on vastly different priorities .

The latest studies show the between 28% to 31 % of Americans are struggling " just to get by".
Are you suggesting that 69 % of People are abnormal ?

None of this is remotely relevant or on topic..... Cheers
__________________
Enjoy the Journey.... Kev...

KevWind at Soundcloud

KevWind at YouYube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...EZxkPKyieOTgRD

System :
Studio system Avid Carbon interface , PT Ultimate 2023.12 -Mid 2020 iMac 27" 3.8GHz 8-core i7 10th Gen ,, Ventura 13.2.1

Mobile MBP M1 Pro , PT Ultimate 2023.12 Ventura 12.2.1
Reply With Quote
  #63  
Old 12-25-2016, 09:51 AM
Yamaha Man Yamaha Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,927
Default

What the heck, $3,000 mics for everybody !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm suggesting most of my friends are broke....................
__________________
Alvarez 66 CE
Alvarez AJ80CE
Takamine F340
Guild F-2512 Deluxe CE
Ibanez Acoustic Bass 12 M1
Martin 12 string X Series
Harley Benton Telecaster
EVH Wolfgang

Formerly known as Martin Maniac.....









M
Reply With Quote
  #64  
Old 12-25-2016, 10:05 AM
jim1960 jim1960 is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,960
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Maniac View Post
My point is most normal people don't buy $3,000 mics or $4,000 guitars.
Do "normal" people spend $2000 on a guitar? Most of my friends can't understand why I'd spend thousands of dollars on any one guitar when a guitar can be bought for a couple of hundred dollars. They'd think you're nuts for spending $2000 on that D35. You seem to have a lot of difficulty looking at a situation from anyone's point of view but your own.
__________________
Jim
2023 Iris ND-200 maple/adi
2017 Circle Strings 00 bastogne walnut/sinker redwood
2015 Circle Strings Parlor shedua/western red cedar
2009 Bamburg JSB Signature Baritone macassar ebony/carpathian spruce
2004 Taylor XXX-RS indian rosewood/sitka spruce
1988 Martin D-16 mahogany/sitka spruce

along with some electrics, zouks, dulcimers, and banjos.

YouTube
Reply With Quote
  #65  
Old 12-25-2016, 10:10 AM
Yamaha Man Yamaha Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,927
Default

I'm well aware people think I'm nuts for spending $2,000 on a guitar. But I know what it sounds like, I know the respect I get when I walk into a room full of other guitar players, I know this guitar will last me 40+ years, I know it has great resale value.
__________________
Alvarez 66 CE
Alvarez AJ80CE
Takamine F340
Guild F-2512 Deluxe CE
Ibanez Acoustic Bass 12 M1
Martin 12 string X Series
Harley Benton Telecaster
EVH Wolfgang

Formerly known as Martin Maniac.....









M
Reply With Quote
  #66  
Old 12-25-2016, 11:46 AM
jim1960 jim1960 is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,960
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Maniac View Post
I'm well aware people think I'm nuts for spending $2,000 on a guitar. But I know what it sounds like, I know the respect I get when I walk into a room full of other guitar players, I know this guitar will last me 40+ years, I know it has great resale value.
Now replace the word "guitar" with the word "mic," the phrase "room full of guitar players" with "studio," and take a moment to consider that just like some people don't know enough about guitars to understand spending $2000 on a guitar, you might not know enough about microphones to understand spending #3000 on a mic. That's possible, isn't it?
__________________
Jim
2023 Iris ND-200 maple/adi
2017 Circle Strings 00 bastogne walnut/sinker redwood
2015 Circle Strings Parlor shedua/western red cedar
2009 Bamburg JSB Signature Baritone macassar ebony/carpathian spruce
2004 Taylor XXX-RS indian rosewood/sitka spruce
1988 Martin D-16 mahogany/sitka spruce

along with some electrics, zouks, dulcimers, and banjos.

YouTube
Reply With Quote
  #67  
Old 12-25-2016, 04:48 PM
Yamaha Man Yamaha Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,927
Default

You missed the point..... If you can hear a difference then good for you.
__________________
Alvarez 66 CE
Alvarez AJ80CE
Takamine F340
Guild F-2512 Deluxe CE
Ibanez Acoustic Bass 12 M1
Martin 12 string X Series
Harley Benton Telecaster
EVH Wolfgang

Formerly known as Martin Maniac.....









M

Last edited by CoolerKing; 12-26-2016 at 09:59 AM. Reason: rule 1
Reply With Quote
  #68  
Old 12-25-2016, 09:16 PM
jim1960 jim1960 is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,960
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Maniac View Post
You missed the point....I. If you can hear a difference then good for you.
And a great many people would say they hear very little difference between your D35 and Yamaha FG800.
__________________
Jim
2023 Iris ND-200 maple/adi
2017 Circle Strings 00 bastogne walnut/sinker redwood
2015 Circle Strings Parlor shedua/western red cedar
2009 Bamburg JSB Signature Baritone macassar ebony/carpathian spruce
2004 Taylor XXX-RS indian rosewood/sitka spruce
1988 Martin D-16 mahogany/sitka spruce

along with some electrics, zouks, dulcimers, and banjos.

YouTube

Last edited by CoolerKing; 12-26-2016 at 10:00 AM. Reason: edited quote
Reply With Quote
  #69  
Old 12-25-2016, 11:48 PM
Yamaha Man Yamaha Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,927
Default

The last Yamaha guitar I bough only lasted 6 months.
__________________
Alvarez 66 CE
Alvarez AJ80CE
Takamine F340
Guild F-2512 Deluxe CE
Ibanez Acoustic Bass 12 M1
Martin 12 string X Series
Harley Benton Telecaster
EVH Wolfgang

Formerly known as Martin Maniac.....









M
Reply With Quote
  #70  
Old 12-26-2016, 12:03 AM
jim1960 jim1960 is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,960
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Maniac View Post
The last Yamaha guitar I bough only lasted 6 months.
Doesn't make what I said any less true.
__________________
Jim
2023 Iris ND-200 maple/adi
2017 Circle Strings 00 bastogne walnut/sinker redwood
2015 Circle Strings Parlor shedua/western red cedar
2009 Bamburg JSB Signature Baritone macassar ebony/carpathian spruce
2004 Taylor XXX-RS indian rosewood/sitka spruce
1988 Martin D-16 mahogany/sitka spruce

along with some electrics, zouks, dulcimers, and banjos.

YouTube
Reply With Quote
  #71  
Old 12-26-2016, 10:38 AM
cigarfan's Avatar
cigarfan cigarfan is offline
Music soothes the soul!
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Within the blast radius of Washington D.C.
Posts: 5,176
Default

Enough said. Let's move on!
__________________
Life is like a box of chocolates ....
Reply With Quote
  #72  
Old 12-26-2016, 11:02 AM
jim1960 jim1960 is offline
Charter Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2015
Posts: 5,960
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by cigarfan View Post
Enough said. Let's move on!
Yep. I made that decision already.
__________________
Jim
2023 Iris ND-200 maple/adi
2017 Circle Strings 00 bastogne walnut/sinker redwood
2015 Circle Strings Parlor shedua/western red cedar
2009 Bamburg JSB Signature Baritone macassar ebony/carpathian spruce
2004 Taylor XXX-RS indian rosewood/sitka spruce
1988 Martin D-16 mahogany/sitka spruce

along with some electrics, zouks, dulcimers, and banjos.

YouTube
Reply With Quote
  #73  
Old 12-26-2016, 11:04 AM
gfsark gfsark is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 669
Default

OK, it's off topic but I can't resist responding to this:
Quote:
I'm well aware people think I'm nuts for spending $2,000 on a guitar.
Why would anyone know how much you spent on your guitar, unless you told them? Nothing bores me more quickly than random people prattling on how much they spent on their beloved whatever. A couple of weeks ago I was asked: "Is that an expensive guitar?" I replied, "Yes, it is." End of conversation.

Quote:
But I know what it sounds like, I know the respect I get when I walk into a room full of other guitar players.
This last semester, I had the exact experience of walking into a roomful of guitarists with my beloved guitar. I got no respect. Just a lot of curiousity. What is that? How long have you had it? So I got noticed, and that was a fun feel-good moment. But respect comes from playing well, and all the guitarists in that room played at least as well as I, and most of them quite a bit better. I don't envy them their instruments, but I do envy their ability. They get my respect.

Quote:
I know this guitar will last me 40+ years, I know it has great resale value.
Knowing the value of your guitar obviously gives you some assurance that you did indeed make a good decision, one that you won't regret. Especially since you bought a Martin, you can be assured of its resale value. And that's a good feeling. One that I don't have, since I bought an off-brand. And also because 40 years, I'll be dead. (Guessing that I'm older than you).

Cheers.
Reply With Quote
  #74  
Old 12-26-2016, 11:19 AM
Yamaha Man Yamaha Man is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,927
Default

I bought my D-18 new in 1975...going on 42 years now. That guitar was deemed to be very expensive at the time I bought it, but it has proven it's value many times over, over the years. It was a bargain.
__________________
Alvarez 66 CE
Alvarez AJ80CE
Takamine F340
Guild F-2512 Deluxe CE
Ibanez Acoustic Bass 12 M1
Martin 12 string X Series
Harley Benton Telecaster
EVH Wolfgang

Formerly known as Martin Maniac.....









M
Reply With Quote
  #75  
Old 12-26-2016, 12:30 PM
gfsark gfsark is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 669
Default

Guess I guessed wrong. I bought my classical and electric guitars around 1975. Steel string acoustics I just started 6 or 7 years ago.
Reply With Quote
Reply

  The Acoustic Guitar Forum > General Acoustic Guitar and Amplification Discussion > RECORD

Thread Tools





All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:53 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Copyright ©2000 - 2022, The Acoustic Guitar Forum
vB Ad Management by =RedTyger=