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My $99.00 System

This is probably only my second thread in 5 years. I
did not have an audio system after my lovely divorce. The usual, "she gets the house and I get the cats" experience. The EX has ALL the good stuff....Avalons, Spectral, what a waste....... After I got re-married last year, my new wife had a pair of Infinite Slope 2A speakers. I had a left over Rega Planet. And proceeded to purchase a Sherwood 100 Integrated ( do not remember the model) with some old Monster 8 gauge cables that were with the speakers. Total cost $99.00 for the Sherwood. In a couple of words, not as bad as you would think. It is musical to a certain extent. Of course, I have a great room that is 20' x 30' which helps with set-up using the rule of 1/3, with about 7 feet from the back wall. A little bright and a little beamy for the highs, a loss of pitch definition at the lows, but the all important mids....not bad at all. So does anyone else have a sort of $99.00 system to get by with? BTW, I had a great divorce lawyer, she had an even better one.
shubertmaniac
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kennyt
1,226 posts
 
Tiger Woods had an exceptional pre-nup. If you recall Elin (sp?) went and hired THE most expensive divorce attorney and a week or so later said they would stay together even if just as friends.....

Tough to walk away from a billion dollar industry!

Chazro..... You are forgetting WHY divorce costs so much.... 'cause it's worth it!

Trust me as a man who just paid the fees to exit a marriage!

It's funny, when you think about it, we men get screwed on both sides. We buy the ring (not cheap!) then when it goes south, pay to leave.....

I am just glad we didn't have any children or it would have cost WAY more, oh, and one good thing about a down economy? Divorce is cheaper!
kbarkamian
647 posts
 
Hopefully I'm not getting too personal here...

I'd be very willing to bet the system was taken out of spite. I'm sure she couldn't care less how much it was worth; the only thing that mattered was what it meant to him.

I'm happily married and have never been divorced, but I've seen it too many times. Be it stereos, cameras, bikes, classic cars, and so on.

I'm not saying guys are any better;just different.
rlodad
3 posts
 
Correct. But better to let her think you're sad than give more than you have to the lawyers and get nothing anyway.
hifihvn
943 posts
 
I have a friend that does this as a hobby.He seems to keep the price under $200 for a full system.He comes up with some good results.He does have a bad habit(in my opinion)of
trading or selling the better pieces.Evey month to three month,1/2 half to the whole system will be different. Friends and myself try to convince him to keep the good stuff,and sell the not so good stuff.If he kept the best stuff,he'd have a great sub $200 system.
sounds_real_audio
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Shubertmaniac

I love it. Please Please post your system on the Virtual Systems. Make yourself proud and make the rest of us feel like crap.
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