It’s the same way I instructed a friend to look at buying used CRT projectors.
Take well analyzed and well considered chances. do your research and buy MANY (over time).
trying it just once with no real research and too much trust extended, is a recipe for disaster.
No one learns to box on the first punch.
Buy many and the average is that there will be a few dogs and the rest will be jems. If well done, which you will learn to do, over time....they will come in at a low average price. (with the dog purchases being the speed bumps)
And all your bandits will be making out spectacularly.
This gentleman followed this rule with CRT projectors, which are 200+ pound ridiculously complex beasts..and ended up finding that one of approx 7-8 were not good deals, but the other 7 were spectacular bargains.
And he made out very very well, overall. It’s a numbers game and you have to play it well and play it often -- in order to beat the odds. Ie, you gamble it all the time and make it a house odds game, with you as the house.
simple, when you look at it correctly.
Oh yes: buy yourself a 100x power stereo biological scope, for stylus, cantilever and cartridge inspection. That’s about $300 these days, max. Or get the set-up that Fremer recommends, which can do dual duty.
Reading two posts back...I’ve got a nuded AT-33ML here, with a blown suspension but perfect stylus. Getting the dampers for the AT’s can bring many of the old ones back to life.
Take well analyzed and well considered chances. do your research and buy MANY (over time).
trying it just once with no real research and too much trust extended, is a recipe for disaster.
No one learns to box on the first punch.
Buy many and the average is that there will be a few dogs and the rest will be jems. If well done, which you will learn to do, over time....they will come in at a low average price. (with the dog purchases being the speed bumps)
And all your bandits will be making out spectacularly.
This gentleman followed this rule with CRT projectors, which are 200+ pound ridiculously complex beasts..and ended up finding that one of approx 7-8 were not good deals, but the other 7 were spectacular bargains.
And he made out very very well, overall. It’s a numbers game and you have to play it well and play it often -- in order to beat the odds. Ie, you gamble it all the time and make it a house odds game, with you as the house.
simple, when you look at it correctly.
Oh yes: buy yourself a 100x power stereo biological scope, for stylus, cantilever and cartridge inspection. That’s about $300 these days, max. Or get the set-up that Fremer recommends, which can do dual duty.
Reading two posts back...I’ve got a nuded AT-33ML here, with a blown suspension but perfect stylus. Getting the dampers for the AT’s can bring many of the old ones back to life.