On Her Majesty's Service

摘要

I was astonished to read the article, in your February issue, about the Siltech Pantheon speakers, priced at ￡65,000 with a limited run of just 39 pairs. What a complete waste of resources and space in your magazine. Who is going to buy these? The Queen? Richard Branson? Certainly not many of your readers, who could probably name dozens of better things to do with their money. We Brits, as opposed to the Swiss or possibly the Americans, are more circumspect with our cash. We believe in good value for money - hence some of the superb, relatively cheap hi-fi systems available to us from mainly British manufacturers. For instance, I own a brilliant Creek 4330 amplifier, Rega Apollo CD player, a very good, but affordable Pro-Ject turntable for my diminishing record collection, QED speaker cables and the latest amazing B&W685 loudspeakers. The cost of this set-up is between ￡1500 and ￡2000.