devinplombier
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| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? Besides... audiophiles are routinely taken in for thousands of dollars, though not by gunmen. | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? @allenf1963 Thank you. At the end of the day, I don't disagree with you. Arguably, the vast majority of the population are decent folks who don't present any risk to me, so I treat everyone accordingly, while looking for signs in the background ... | |
| Is it possible to really know what you're doing? But you missed a very important consideration - are they designed to emulate a point source of sound? @richardbrand You’re absolutely correct. It’s interesting that MBL’s founder was motivated by the desire to move about the listening room wi... | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? @allenf1963 First, I am very sorry you had to suffer this encounter with random violence. Something similar happened to one of my kids recently. As situations go, carjacking doesn't have much in common with selling audio, other than the fact t... | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? Do some of y’all require... certain buyers to send you a copy of their major record company recording contract, or of their NBA contract before allowing them in your garage? Bet you’d want that FAXED over pronto! Also, do you give the neighbors ad... | |
| Old SS amps If this amp blows again, it’s a 100 lb boat anchor. @wrm57 Hopefully it won't blow again, but if it does I'll take it and I'll pay for freight :) | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? Once I went to look at HT speakers from craigslist. The seller lived in a forlorn subdivision that even google maps was confused about, but eventually I got there, rang the doorbell, the guy swung the entry door open, and lo and behold the speaker... | |
| Local pickup for speakers - should I let the buyer in the house or use the the garage? There you have it, average ordinary retirees more paranoid than a homeless tweeker at the end of a four day binge. | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? @pindac You make a good point, however history has a way of repeating itself. Early computers were the size of a warehouse and needed their own electrical substation, whereas today your smartphone runs 16 or 18 hours on a tiny charge, it fits i... | |
| Duroch Capacitors @yukio It looks like Prima Luna likes to private-label some of their components: Duroch caps, Prima Luna-branded tubes, etc. As has been pointed out already, those caps are probably just rebranded by a legit manufacturer, in the same way the ge... | |
| Is AI going to kill Hifi? The other day I was bored so I fed the AI a schematic and asked it to tell me all about it. It told me it was a positive / negative dual rail linear power supply, which was correct, and it went on to praise the discrete-transistor regulation stage... | |
| Old SS amps Techs who work on high-end gear are scarce, and really good ones are rarer than flying pigs. They (justifiably) command high rates. The downside of this is that at $100+/hr it doesn’t take long for a repair to become economically unfeasible, or t... | |
| Old SS amps @invalid Of course, although it’s always nice to know that if it does it’s less likely to take your speakers out. In any event, I would definitely recommend a sensible preventative maintenance program. Out of curiosity, which Krell do you have? | |
| Selling towers - keep getting bad actors/scammers when doing local pickup only. If cash is an issue, how about a cashier's check? Forged cashier's checks are all over the place. Of course you can call the bank to verify. Oh, it's 6 pm! The buyer was held up in traffic | |
| Old SS amps @ronmen No worries, these are good questions. I don’t have a strong opinion as to whether an amp used daily for 30 years is more likely to need a recap than one that has sat unused for 20 years because caps will deteriorate in both cases, albei... |