Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve?


Has anyone else noticed that the higher you go in sonic quality the more it cost to get an incremental increase in sonic quality. For example if you buy a 300 stereo from Walmart it sounds ok then you go a spend 3000 on one and the jump in sound quality is huge. Now to get the same percentage jump in sound quality you need to spend 9000 then 30000. So I am at the 30k+ threshold what do you have to spend to get the same incremental jump. This is more of a rhetorical question has anyone else experienced this.   

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but I pour my heart into something that means very little because of the respect in knowing it is so great!

Ok Kamala, we know it's you...

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@jjss49 @ghdprentice 

I feel like I am in an alternate version of Blazing Saddles and instead of hearing "Authentic Gibberish" and I realizing that slide rules were much more common than I thought!  And I have a new appreciation for the folks who had to use them as a primary calculation method versus a back-up calculation method.

There must be something to it as I'm seeing a record number of Posts removed.

@overthemoon

I have read about the rooms full of people doing arithmetic for astronomers fifty or a hundred years before I went to college. In the ‘50’s every scientist and engineer carried a slide rule… or a book of tables. That is the way Sputnik got launched… most of the early space race was based on slide-rules! It is incredible isn’t it? I had three! I lusted after the K&E Bamboo for years… way out of my financial ability. The smoothness and effortlessness of using it.

Then virtually overnight… it was gone… buggy whips lasted a lot longer… there was such a long transition. Overnight, calculators replaced slide rules.

 

Our technology today is built on the shoulders of such incredible advancement. My father worked a team of horses to plow the fields! … and rode a horse drawn cart to go to town for supplies! I went down with my father to shovel coal into the furnace for heat each night (Chicago) so we had heat every night! Wow.

I implemented global system to run entire corporations from a single computer system while flying around the world in less than a month… many times. Incredible change.