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The price list is a nice find Frank, unfortunately I can't make out the figures.  Is there any chance you could scan a higher resolution image or, if your typing's up to it, tell us what the prices were?
 
I'd be interested in how much the various mixers were and how much each part of the Concert System and the Unit System and the PA115 systems were.....
 
A clearer scan is probably the easy route Big smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote soundforyou Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 October 2013 at 8:14pm
Originally posted by GregM GregM wrote:

The price list is a nice find Frank, unfortunately I can't make out the figures.  Is there any chance you could scan a higher resolution image or, if your typing's up to it, tell us what the prices were?
 
I'd be interested in how much the various mixers were and how much each part of the Concert System and the Unit System and the PA115 systems were.....
 
A clearer scan is probably the easy route Big smile
OK Greg changed settings fro 200dpi to 600dpi, well, that did'nt work, 300dpi nope, am trying in two halves nowClap
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A Few more Prices:
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Brilliant, thanks Frank

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£300 for the seperate echo unit.Shocked
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jbl_man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 October 2013 at 10:46am
Interesting,the speaker prices,is that a pair i wonder,or each? PRO 150's it lists at £384,surely that must be a pair? Lot of money in 1979.
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Expensive but built to last!
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Originally posted by jbl_man jbl_man wrote:

Interesting,the speaker prices,is that a pair i wonder,or each? PRO 150's it lists at £384,surely that must be a pair? Lot of money in 1979.
Possibly the prices are in Irish Punts not GBP - the label on the ad seems to suggest an Irish store with 20% VAT - UK VAT was only 12.5% in January 1979 (it was increased by then Chancellor Geoffrey Howe to 15% in June 79)


Edited by jazomir - 22 October 2013 at 11:21am
For sidefills, can we have two enormous things of a type that might be venerated as Gods by the inhabitants of Easter Island, capable of reaching volumes that would make Beelzebub soil his pants.
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Think the exchange rate back then was pretty close, at best about 0.88 - 1.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote jbl_man Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 October 2013 at 11:34am
Not sure Trevor,you might be right,it lists the S500d at £492,i paid £450 for one around the same time (1979) from Soundwave in Romford,so that seems about right. (At that time the RSD 800b was £570,and the Amcron DC300a was a whopping £800).


Edit,thanks Joe,that would make sense then,so those figures are about 10% dearer than Pounds Sterling.


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Originally posted by jbl_man jbl_man wrote:

Interesting,the speaker prices,is that a pair i wonder,or each? PRO 150's it lists at £384,surely that must be a pair? Lot of money in 1979.


It's interesting that the top of the range concert units were just under 200 - presumably, being the holy grail top of the range, this was a per cabinet price, to encourage building multi cab stacks, and the mid range/popular Pro series were per pair?
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