Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home?


I agree that I do not want a preamp or speaker coated with a film of smoke, but I am confused as to what a child or pet could do that would not be otherwise visible. You would see the cat scratches on the speaker grill, the dog chew marks on the rack, the iguana turds in the amplifier cooling vents. And what's a little dog hair among friends? As a 3 year old, I supposedly put my finger through my grandfather's new DIY speaker but I'm pretty sure he replaced the drivers so even that doesn't really matter. Most things will be visible and/or easily remedied.  Maybe the price will even be a little lower because of the cosmetics. If it doesn't mess with function, not a big deal to me.

What concerns me more is does it come from a drunk-free, drug-free home.  I think befuddled owners are far more worrisome than pets or children.

 

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       When my daughter was five;  I put a system together for her with a Technics integrated.

      An older child was visiting, turned every knob on the Technics to max and THEN pushed the Power button.     It was on FM and the kid had managed to find a nice spot between channels (White Noise galore).

      Before I could reach the room, she had taken out the right channel's output IC and educated/reminded me about a lot of other peoples' children.     

                       (Just another way kids can abuse equipment.)

       Don't want to smell your cat, dog, or tar/nicotine (never have bought a smoked-in car, either).

       I've always thought there were others out there, that felt as I do, thus: anything I've sold, far as things electronic (since the kids have grown), have been listed as: 'From a smoke, pet, child and vermin* free home'.

                            *No fleas, ticks, roaches or mouse turds, either.

        Can't help but feel: I'm not the Lone Ranger; when it comes to buying a CLEAN piece of electronic gear or cabling.

                        Couldn't care less about the virtue signalers' opinions!

                                          Happy listening!

I’m surprised he didn’t post any additional videos of the Ivy League school protests supporting terrorists. I guess they don’t have a song yet. What a f-n mess…

                                  Make that: POISON Ivy League!

                              ---MAKE '1984' FICTION AGAIN---

                                                        Long story, short:

 

 

Looks like we really need to forget about kids, dogs and other home dwelling species or dog peeing on the speaker -- not important at all

We should really make sure it's not communist or any kind of extremist or *ist.

Plenty of "good thoughts" here... Keep'em comin

                                     WELL... alrighty then:

        Never buy Toshiba stereo equipment from certain vermin, OR- their sympathizers.

                                                  ie:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/01/lockerbie.gerardseenan

                    The only upside: the Bass CAN be explosive!

    What's being played out at this moment, in The USA, to a tee, is the agenda described in 'The Naked Communist', published first in 1962.

     I read it first in the 70's and am not at all surprised at it's accuracy, unfortunately.

     However you choose to decorate it, repackage, or- rename it: it's the same old, tired song*.         Victims and oppressors / bourgeoisie and proletariat - let's make everything equal/equitable/even, without any religion or moral turpitude, because we all descended from an amoeba anyway!    

                                                 *ie: Lennon's 'Imagine'

                                          Except: it's never worked that way,

                              as any student of an un-doctored History is aware.

                                           MAKE '1984' HISTORY, AGAIN!

 

                                                   For any that care:

https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Communist-Signed-Author-Skousen/dp/B003UY46V2

Didn't Stormy Daniels write a book titled The Naked Capitalist?

              ACTUALLY: porn stars ARE naked capitalists, obviously.

LOL!  I don't think it was autobiographical . . .

      I was thinking more along the line of a blanket expose' of ALL porn stars.

      Don't think they just shoot that doo-doo they do, for poo-poo, do you?

I heard it was about another notorious capitalist.

          UH.... Adam Smith?

          No, wait... Bill Gates?

        Oh, hell... they probably both had the occasional ho' sign an NDA too.

      

 ...it was the captialist with tiny hands that she had an affair with back in ’06.

                                             OH,,, #45?

      You DO realize: he's a rather large individual, which may make his hands appear smaller.     After all, were all things relatively sized...but then again:

 

                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yRZjIM_80

                               He IS pretty, "popular", isn't he?

                                          Happy listening!