Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?

Given the increasing ease with which hackers can bore into sites like this and get names and addresses, I would hesitate to post photos of my system that might tempt home theft.

"Why not just use google maps, or Zillow to locate areas with large estates and find a house with a ten car garage."

That works too except that it won't reveal exactly what is in the home.

You see, I have known three different people who had their entire home audio systems stolen, and I have heard of many more over the years. The funniest theft I know of happened during a party when everybody got quite wasted out in the back yard, and the thief just waltzed out with the living room system.

My home insurer strongly suggested I insure my system against fire and theft. Call me paranoid.

My system is mid-fi by the standards here, and I still would not like to have it stolen

"I always lock my doors and am careful as to who I associate with."

Read your statement again. You're being, if anything, more paranoid than I am.

My friends systems were heavy enough, but carting components out to a car or truck - well, even the old codgers here manage to pull that off. Speakers maybe not so much, but I would not be heartened to come home from a vacation and see only my speakers in my living room.

This conversation has now become officially silly.

This is one of the most hilarious threads I have yet to see on Audiogon.

Sayonara