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Interest in an interconnect

Hello there, this is my first post here. My business friend and I have been kicking around the idea of starting an online interconnect "library" where it would be possible to rent interconnects. Our plan would involve a small one-time fee of perhaps 5 or 10 dollars, and would include your first rental. Thereafter, a one week checkout would also be about 10 bucks. Additionally, with each rental we would include a formatted page for you to fill out with your current system and a brief (1 paragraph or so) review of the sound with that particular interconnect and, ultimately, what was purchased; subsequent rentals of that interconnect would include these previous comments so that comparisons could be made.

Is there any interest in this sort of setup? What about pricing? If you have any helpful feedback, positive or negative, please post and let me know.

Thanks for your time!
ryanp100

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garfish
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If you can get it "off the ground" I would be willing to pay a reasonable fee for auditioning ICs and cables. Why not also add power cords-- much audiophile interest in these.

However, the posters above provide some food for thought re actually getting such a venture started. The last time I got wires from the Cable Co. (3-4 years ago), they were charging a percentage fee to audition wires with the fee(s)to be applied against purchase. If you didn't purchase though, the rental fee was effectively fairly high,in the 5-10% of MSRP range. So it was only a good deal if you actually planned to purchase-- which I did.

Good Luck. Craig
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