Anybody help me unload all of this on Audiogon….

The Music Room is honest. They are in the business to make money, so they won’t give you the highest price, but things will go smoothly if you do business with them.

Thanks for that guys….anyone know of a store like TRM in the San Francisco area?

Since I respect this site (Audiogon) I feel a little disrespectful using the site to just get information to sell the gear elsewhere and I’m not even sure if this is against the rules. Still prefer (if possible) having someone lost on here for me on commission. Having said that I’m not sure how long it might take to sell on Audiogon compared to TMR.

Its night time here now so not able to speak with TMR…..do I set the price on consignment there, do they do consignment. I know the other dealers would probably fleece me if I sold direct to them, my guess at least. Also, I’m very out of touch regarding prices…..I also have a lot of recording studio gear and a lot of synths and was pleasantly surprised to see that some synths and boxes have increased massively and have turned into something of a happy accident - TR 808 I bought in the 90s for $80 selling for up to $10,000 today!! I’m assuming the gear I listed above will mostly have devalued quite a bit - is that correct?

Dealing with TMR can be easy, though with all that equipment it may take them a while to get back with you on their offer. Also, unless you just want to get rid of it at any cost, make sure you know what it is worth before accepting their offer.

On a personal experience I’m an outlier with respect to TMR. I had two good buying experiences then decided to sell some items. I had five items, the offer for three of them came back too low so I passed (one was an item I purchased less than a year ago from them). The other two I got low offers, but one I realized would be difficult to sell, there was a market glut of that piece. The other was a heavy tube amp that I did not have factory packaging for and it was over 30 years old and still original. So I accepted the offer. I was going to be in the general area on vacation so I offered to drop the items off and they inferred they would give me some credit for not having to pay for shipping, yes, TMR pays to ship the item to them. I get there and then they tell me I must drop the items off at exactly the assigned time, no changes possible. When I drop them off, it takes less than five minutes, they put the boxes on the cart and say see yah! It delayed my plan for the day for no reason, so first annoyance. Then I get paid and no credit for dropping the items off. I have no idea how much shipping would have cost them, but it probably would have been $200 minimum for me, so second annoyance. Then I see the tube amp listed for three times what they paid me for it ($500)! The amp probably should be recapped, so I thought maybe they did that, but the photos show absolutely zero work done on it so nothing to justify such a huge markup. I gave them bad feedback and nothing, I try to contact someone who works there I have met once before, nothing. So I send a direct message to them and the owner, Josh, contacts me and explains he would have done things differently … but nothing more. We exchange e-mails again which further muddied the water.  Finally I tell him “is that how you keep customers happy?” and the best he can do is what can we do to make it right. I reply I’m too pissed if at this point and forget it. End of discussion.

Please don’t take this as a “stay away at all cost”, just be vigilant with them or anyone else you deal with. These companies are not your friend, they are there to make money, and maybe, just maybe, make you satisfied.

Thanks for that info Pmotz, I’ll take that into consideration

Hi Thomas,

Having recently upgraded my analog front-end I’m interested in a new phono pre which I believe is the last piece of kit holding back my current setup.

I’m in SF. Let me know if you’ve got anything and I might be interested in buying.

Pioneer PL-L1000 w/ nag mp-500-> pro-ject phonobox DS-> freya+ with nos Ken-rad pair in the input gain and EH stock in the output->vidar-> ascend sierra 2-ex