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| How best to sell my dad's McIntosh integrated amp, CD player speakers? "Nobody buys Bang and Olufsen any more."As evidenced by 35 stores in the U.S.A. Not including some that cary it but are not major audio stores. | |
| Focal Aria 948, Revel F208, Tekton Double Impact Focals are great speakers and you may be done with search. However, you may check with Crutchfield if they have a pair of Revels in their showroom. It is not exactly in Richmond, but it may be worth it, even just so you can say you tried.Crutchfie... | |
| Focal Aria 948, Revel F208, Tekton Double Impact For whatever it is worth and it may be different in your room, but I tried Revel’s "controls" extensively and did not find any drastic difference. In the end, I suspected that perceived difference might have been because I knew I was changing it. ... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear ct0517,I see most of the things in the same way as you just explained, including "cloud" storage. That may be the most logical reason why I keep physical copies of everything I bought. Every now and then, I come accross the glitch in those ripped ... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear jnovak,"...transfer much of it to CDR to preserve for all time."If CDR is CR-Recordable, be quick and remember that those discs are prone to failure.Some years ago, I wanted to transfer a reel-to-reel tape of some privately-made demo music onto a ... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear ct0517,There are those "disillusionment" words again. Maybe instead of "disillusionment" it could be called "reality check" or something along those lines.I have some records and a working turntable, connected, oiled regularly, and all that.I used... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear "...and will have no idea why anyone would possess thousands of pounds of discs that take up so much space."I am already wondering, and I do own some. | |
| Small room amp and speakers recommendation dwmaggie,Could Magnepan LRS be positioned sufficiently far from each other in this room? They are almost 15 inch width each. If they are at any distance from the side walls, they may be really close to each other. Aside from that, I was quite surp... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio "...which was 0.1mm short (within our PCB firm’s tolerances)--just enough so that the end plates don’t squeeze the PCB enough to prevent a slight movement of the board in the case if you rock it from side-to-side."Is that 0.1 mm usual tolerance (f... | |
| Small room amp and speakers recommendation I used to have a room almost exactly that size, except higher. No matter what I put in, it was not that great. Until I figured out the room itself.Maybe someone more adept at it could guide you through the room treatments (which may make your room... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio .....how is this affecting Uptone?Live and learn. | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio "Statistically, my worst buyers are from Asian 3rd world countries.............but sellers need to simply take big caution with some buyers, and hedge against those transactions.’Not knowing much about actual numbers and marketing approaches, but ... | |
| PSA: Be Careful Dealing With Uptone Audio "So although he has never purchased anything directly from UpTone, we of course still honor our generous 3-year transferrable warranty and treated him with respect throughout more than a dozen e-mail exchanges."Is that supposed to be a honorable t... | |
| Who else here is frugal? wolfie62,It does not seem you are frugal at all. Housing so many items is luxury at its best. | |
| Who else here is frugal? If that "just" refers to review of darTZeel NHB-468 monoblock power amplifier from October 2019, the first paragraph or two are about why it is not entirely unreasonable to review it. The price is high, but not high enough in some way. |