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Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

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Re: Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

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Post by brudgers »

sandworm101 wrote: post #106
JSR_FDED wrote: post #2

This is gorgeous. I’m very afraid if I buy one it will trigger a wave of revulsion for normal everyday products and I’ll become one of these obsessive people who talk about fonts.

Same thing happened to me when i first considered buying a mechanical keyboard. After decades of not caring about keyboards, and laughing at those who did, i found myself considering a 500$ keyboard. But i pushed back from the computer. I eventually bought a 45$ mechanical "gaming" keyboard and am still perfectly happy with it four years later.

Ordinary choices are not between bread and cake.

Ordinary choices are between bread and nothing.

A $45 keyboard is rounding error on a $500 keyboard if you decide to buy one.

And buying and trying the cheap one is how a person gets direct experience to make a well informed decision.

Re: Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

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Post by majormajor »

dml2135 wrote: post #73
thomascountz wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is needlessly judgmental and draws false equivalences between expression, impression, and consumerism.

I do think the mention of consumerism is apt. In my own encounters with those that seem to take pride in their inability to distinguish certain nuances, it does come off as a mental block borne of not wanting to feel like they are missing out on expensive things. I think it cuts both ways though — there are those who will exaggerate or outright fabricate subtle differences in order to justify their expensive purchase…

Yeah, frankly I'd have more money and be happier when watching a lot of movies if I couldn't tell the difference between OLED black levels and projector/LCD ones.

I didn't ask for it and I don't want it, hah.

I feel no need to convince others that they should try to find the difference.

I'm happy that, say, cheap wine doesn't give me the same mental-twitch.

Re: Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

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Post by majormajor »

dml2135 wrote: post #86
bluebarbet wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somewhat convincing analysis. But I should add (contrary to the rebuttal my provocative take attracted) that I am in fact very finely tuned to esthetics. As a photographer I'm obsessed with getting everything right (composition, light, texture, color, details) and routinely delete everything that doesn't make the cut. It just seems obvious to me that in consumer products , most of the differences are pretty small in…

The example I had in mind was actually audio equipment. Like, clearly the high end stuff gets into diminishing returns to a point somewhere between absurdity and mysticism. But I’ve also had a friend that was completely convinced that vinyl sounds the same as spotify, and that anyone who thought otherwise was just a pretentious poseur.

> But I’ve also had a friend that was completely convinced that vinyl sounds the same as spotify, and that anyone who thought otherwise was just a pretentious poseur.

This is a great example because the ambiguity could go either way (e.g. spotify lossless FLAC vs vinyl will set off picky people on each side).

Sometimes different is just different, and each will be better to some.

Re: Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

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Post by Blackthorn »

msie wrote: post #19
WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #17

About $1k on ebay https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Casio+s100x+lacquer

Ugh, I hate scalpers!

Japan loves the limited edition stuff. Was very sad when I wasn't able to get the Bocchi guitar because Yamaha decided to only make a few hundred of them, even though they could easily sell 10x as many.
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