Somebody in this forum spends their time playing spelling gotcha!
Maybe you could please get me a new iPhone with a compatibly updated spellcheck? I’d appreciate it.
I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do?
two issues here, would it be smarter to buy the used speakers not knowing where they’ve been or how hard they’ve been played or maybe there’s something wrong with them. And the other issue is what happens to the value of my speakers immediately after the box comes to my house. And I guess the third issue is, amI insane for buying $50,000 speakers.
It seems like I’ll be losing $20,000 immediately and of course probably a little more since if I ever sell they will need to be reduced further so used price can be 30,000 if a dealer is involved which they probably will be.
This raises a serious concern that very nice speakers are just too expensive.
Fortunately (and luckily) I’m not married so that makes this process a lot easier
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I don’t take chances: - notwithstanding my completely, utterly disgusting political orientation, I’m conservative about a lot of things. In particular, spending my money. I don’t want to loose it. |
as for the - preamp and tuner (no receivers), I bought them used from a dealer in Manhattan who sells lots of used gear and stands behind everything he sells - amps, bought from the same dealer. They were a little unstable in the early years, in spite of taking them to an audio engineer who has won 5 Grammys. Then I came across George Kay and Jon Specter. Jon has recently rebuilt them from top to bottom, converted them to triode, replaced/upgraded all the caps, new NOS GE 6LF6s, and re-etched the corroded sections of the circuit board. He’s been working on Futtermans for decades, he started out by working with George Kaye who he still consults with. I have complete 100% confidence in Jon and George. |
The threads on cables imho have no basis in reality. Yet there are hundreds of them that go on and on. There have been some humorous responses here at the very least, plus the melodrama of my being called disgusting, an accusation that I make zero effort to refute, and which I have been known to embellish upon from time to time, depending on my perception of the algorithmic structure of the narrative. So at least there’s entertainment. |
Agreed. I’m here to see what’s going on, but there is a disciplined method to how I go about audio. I decided what my ears prefer at an early age - tube v solid state. I chose the former. When digital came out, after a certain period I decided to stick to analog. When it comes to collecting vinyl, an original press almost always sounds better than a 21st century reissue and even/especially a remaster. I buy second hand and refurbish because that’s the way to get the biggest bang for the buck and the bonus is that it’s also environmentally sound and not buying into wasteful consumerism. I stick to a path and upgrade/add accordingly. Bottom line: the best musical experience at a cheap-rat-bastard price. I have guests say that it sounds better than being there. Good enough for me: spend the excess dough on people less fortunate than I. And a new added bonus is that I get to disgust @roxy54 , 😉 |
I’m in possession of a curious nature, and read, watch and listen to all manner of ideas and things. EG I subscribe to WaPo, the WSJ, The Guardian, Le Monde, Financial Times, Russian TV, The NY Times, Reason, etc. It is how you learn. I am 70 years old. I am under few illusions about the world and the range of people in it. I will not get to see the changes in behaviors that mankind must make if it is to survive. I do my best to conform to some of those needed behaviors. And I initiated some changes, eg fighting and winning a case at SCOTUS (thank you, Nino Scalia) that changed constitutional law. The rest is for the next generation to do. |
I am not here enough to understand who most of the players are. It seems to me, judging from some of his comments in the thread, that he is trying to coax a discussion about the political economy of audio. Not in so many words, but that’s sort of it in a nutshell and that’s why I responded, because that’s an issue for me as well. Not the issue, an issue. And why I made it more explicit. I did get under one persons skin. Theres a little bit of trolling in the way he’s going about it, which maybe makes it an administrator thing, but imo the people who are saying he is not “real”, just don’t want to pursue what he is hinting at. Which is fine, but then why not just ignore it? Theres an unconscious thing going on here. my two sense. |