Quote Originally Posted by Feanor View Post
I wish I could afford this sort of equipment !!!! Sure, a buck buys you much more performance than it used to, but you're mistaken if you see the sort equipment above is accessible to the typical low-end consumer. People by Vizio because that's all they can afford. Personally I have to make do with an Onkyo TX-SR508, about C$500, and that only because I chose to spend some of my inheritance from my late mother. A "decent" projector is out of the question for me.
Bill, you have to be smart with your purchases if you are on a budget or limited income. Christmas sales, black friday sales, bogo sales, spring clearances are all ways to get decent equipment for cheap(relative) prices.

Personally, I have never paid retail prices for any of my equipment. I bargain, make deals and agreements, and in some cases have waited for sales. I have even allowed a speaker and amp builder to turn my reference theater into is personal testing lab. In exchange, I get to keep what he builds and installs if I like it. Also, working for a studio, I can get high end used equipment for next to nothing. This is how I got my "so called"(out of ignorance) $85k projector.

Everyone has their priorities based on their income, and I recognize that. However, I have seen people who make very little money pull together a very good, if not excellent system by saving their money, and waiting for sales.