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Goodbye ZYX Airy 3

A recent ad on the Audio Asylum from SoraSound, tells of selling off the last of the ZYX R1000Airy3 SB cartridges for $1875 (was $3000).

This was about the same price that 2Juki sold them for, for years (also now gone).

Sad to see this expensive (but not absurd) gem go!

The Airy 3 had many fans and good reviews.

The Airy 3 has been replaced by the Airy 3 Premium line, introduced over a year ago. The Premium is about $1000 more.

Oddly there have been no reviews, and very little user info on the premium line that I can find. Are these "new" premium models actually better??? What is up?

SoraSound seems to "push" their own, "Universe" versions instead.
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The effect of exchange rate depends on the time frame you consider. From 2000 to 2008, the dollar/yen ratio was between 100 and 120. After 2008, the ratio dropped substantially, bottoming at around 78 in May 2011. Since then it has risen back to 120. The 2008 to 2013 were an anomaly compared to the last 30 years.

Dates of major crossing points.

July 2007 - 120
Oct. 2008 - 100
May 2011 - 90
Oct, 2012 - 78
Jan. 2013 - 90
May 2013 - 100
Nov. 2014 - 110
Current - 120

Data from oanda.com website. You can get historical prices there, graph or table.

Historical Exchange Rates
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