What are the items/models that you have owned more than once? And loaning "software".


Perhaps it is an early sign of insanity, but I have owned a few products more than once....and some of these do go back in time some. 

Large Advents, 
Dahlquist DQ-10
Magnepan 1.6
CJ-12
CJ-ART
Wireworld Gold Eclipse 3
Classe Tuner-1

There are likely others I am not remembering. 

And yes, after "loaning" some people classic, special pressing albums...they required a re-purchase.  Did you ever have a CD returned with what you thought was peanut butter fingerprints on the surface?   Yes, the audiophile world is an extremely small percentage of the population.  With that said, my best friend I trusted with everything I had audio wise and never regretted it, and I do miss him and his intelligence. 


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Hi yogiboy, thanks for your post. Nearly all the "audio-piles" I have known got their start with the large Advents. Henry Kloss was a very interesting man.

DeKay, a bit scary, every item you listed I have owned, all only once, but one could say I owned the Large Advents twice since I had two pairs stacked with the top one upside down...to get the tweeters close together which helped the image. A "burned into my mind" memory was the first time I heard the Magneplaner 1D speakers..the three panel models.....think my friend was using a Crown Pre and Power amplification and likely an early direct drive Dual turntable with either a Shure V-15 or and ADC XLM....all with first gen Monster interconnects and speaker wire....and it sounded....ah.. let’s see...FINE, VERY FINE.

(and a P.S. Since the store I worked at was an Advent dealer I had the chance to hear the "double Advents" that Advent people had set up at C.E.S. and the top pair was upside down)....w/the tweeters close together.

The store I worked at was in Iowa City, named The Stereo Shop, which later was sold and re-named Audio Odyssey. 


DeKay, The Stereo Shop was on Kirkwood Ave. just east from the "old" Hy-Vee. It was just up the street from a bar that was a very early "biker" bar...where you could go to play pool and perhaps get in a fight. When a new owner took The Stereo Shop over, it was re-named Audio Odyssey.

The Airliner is an icon in Iowa City. Being across from the Old Capitol building, in the heart of the campus is helpful to their business. It used to be a place to sit on a stool in the window and watch the coeds go by...........not that I ever did that.

And yes, I was there for the opening of the original Hancher.  Attended many events at the original Hancher and saw the groups Heart with The Little River Band there.   I saw Steve Martin when he had John Sebastian for his "intro" act.  Sebastian got some ovations to the point where he came back for another song twice.  When Martin finally came out he tip-toed to the mic and said "did you like John Sebastian"...and the crowd cheered wildly...to which Martin replied "last time I'll ever have that son-of-a-bitch".