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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.

 

tcutter
czarivey
5,709 posts
 

How can you exclude what's not visible?

How can you see communist or left-right-race-lgbtq-ist or pretty much any *ist selling audio?

Can you imagine what fetishist can do to audio?

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mahgister
12,741 posts
 

Good point! And important one...

We must ban fetichist if we buy remote control...

This is not political propaganda but hygienic and health recommendation ...

😊

Dog dead flies  bodies inside amplifier kill more person than thunderstorm in antartica each year by the way ...

 

tcutter OP
86 posts
 

It appears iguanas may be okay...

geof3
1,125 posts
 

I’ve got grandkids, a dog all that. No worries. Smoke… no go. Period.

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waytoomuchstuff
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We recently had an item presented for service that we affectionately named: "The Marlboro Man Turntable."  It had decades of layered smoke and nicotine stains on everything so thick that it, literally, took Bug and Tar remover to get them off.  

We often get into a discussion of the history of a (vintage) item when checked in, but in this case it was a quick in and out process.  I was more than curious about the environment this turntable resided in for years, but was hesitant to ask the owner.  When completed, I notified the owner.  I few hours later, I heard his vehicle pull up behind the shop and went out to greet him.  He opened the door of his truck and thick, billowing smoke exited the vehicle.  Question answered.

I took a photo of the (before) turntable, printed out a next poster-sized copy and have it hanging on the wall in our shop.  It was, truly, the most profound example of "second hand smoke" I've ever encountered.

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