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hodge555

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Since exchange rates vary over time I thought I'd better look up Jan 1997's rates as that is when I have the DM pricelist. I managed to find the historical rates between the DM and GBP and also the Euro and GBP which gave me over 20 data points each for Jan 1997. Taking the average for the month for each and then sticking them together we actually get the same rate of 1 Euro = 1.96 DM.
I'll add some suitable commentary to the pricelist page.
 

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For convenience it might be good to add the last exchange rate from DEM to EUR for instance next to the historical DM-list links - 1EUR=1,96DEM being the final exchange rate on Jan1 1999 acc to my googling.
So roughly half the listed prices for equivalent prices in EUR at that time.
It was actually 1.95583 ;)
 

hodge555

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Not wanting to be pedantic but: :)
The average DM to GBP in Jan 1997 was 2.665125. (Started the month at 2.6345, peaked at 2.7142 on the 22nd then finished on 2.6453)
The average Euro to GBP in the same month was 0.737545. (Started the month at 0.7519, dropped to 0.7237 on the 22nd then finished on 0.7467)
Thus the average to average Euro to DM was 1.965651 however only a single day had a rate higher than 1.96 when rounded, every other rounded to 1.96 hence why I chose that.
 

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@hodge555
not wanting to be pedantic either, but 1.95583 was the „officially fixed rate of exchange“, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark

Back on-topic I have two further DEM prices for you:

Ninka Jan 2001: 3.000 DEM (Source: Review in „Audio“ 02/2001)
Isobarik DMS Dec 1986: 7.800 DEM (Source: Review in “stereoplay“ 01/1987)
 
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hodge555

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Jens,
We're talking about the same thing but with a slightly different perspective.
What you are quoting in the wiki is the exchange rate when the DM had a fixed rate to the Euro from the end of 1998.
I was referencing to what it was when the Jan 1997 pricelist came out.
In this case there isn't actually much difference.

Thanks for the extra prices, I'll add those in soon.
 
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hodge555

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Regarding my hosting of the Linn Product "Archive":

I've added links to the Linn Manuals of quite a number of products.
Additionally I included links to local copies of these that I've downloaded (in case Linn stop hosting them at some point in the future), or if I had other versions or additional relevant material.

Please let me know if you find this addition useful.

I probably haven't finished what's possible but that will do me for the moment.

If you have PDF copies of manuals that you'd like including then please get in touch.

Lastly please let me know if any of the links don't work and I'll try to fix them.

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