jeffloistarca
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| I know Audiogon is the best for buying and selling Funny enough, but I find people starting to become much more biased with respect to geography. The last two items I sold (this week) were listed here first. My listings here drew some inane questions and a couple of ridiculous offers. The other tw... | |
| What's inside these aluminum/metal cases? The amps look like decent layouts to me. Large toroidal transformers coupled with some big-assed capacitors, and then a lot of discrete transistors, resistors, relays, coils, and capacitors. Depending on the quality of the discrete components thes... | |
| Smoke coming from transformer means........anyone? Brian- thanks for the laugh! | |
| What would you do about a sleazy buyer?? I'd invite a prospective local buyer over to my place for a listen, that way if he didn't want it well..no time or effort lost, I woulda been listening to music anyway. I'm with Jvia, "don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things". | |
| Speaker Dilemma: Sat/Sub or Bookshelf for Office Bud, what size is your office? If it's anything like mine there's sufficient room for some ML Aerius. They take up very little floorspace and can be kept relatively close to the back wall without any major problems. Saves on buying quality stands ... | |
| Thinking about buying a Canadian Thorens Turntable Jimbo, it was an intentional slight by us Quebecers. Same reason we hoard our smoked meat and bagels. Had we kept the folks at Enron well fed and entertained by our "gentleman's clubs" perhaps they wouldn't have felt compelled to lie, cheat, and s... | |
| Thinking about buying a Canadian Thorens Turntable Charles, you're kidding, right? We may have a European flair to certain parts of the country (like Quebec) but our electrical is no different from the U.S. We have cable and flush toilets, should you ever wanna c'mon up for a visit and take advant... | |
| Opinions needed; which is a better choice and why? To answer you intelligently we'd need to understand your associated equipment, listening room, musical tastes, and budget for a preamp/amp then you'd get a ton of recommendations. As for buying here, I've had nothing but success. Selling here...an... | |
| Opinions needed; which is a better choice and why? I agree with Jade, economics plays a role in integrateds and there are some good single box units out there. Playing Devil's advocate: keeping the amplifier and preamplifier seperate has it's advantages, allowing you to upgrade/change either the p... | |
| What cd player should I buy? I'd buy a turntable, but...that's just me. I like YBA CDP's, they sound a lot less digital than anything else I've auditioned. | |
| Are these cartridges worth anything???? HELP Not knowing what they are worth, I'd suggest putting them up for auction. Let the market decide. I'm not a fan of auctions myself (due to a relatively short attention span) but in this case it's probably the best way to determine market value. Jeff | |
| Re-tube time for a BAT VK30. Advice please Michael, what did BAT charge you for the tubes? Parrot, I checked out vintage tube, by all accounts he has his s**t together. Seems the 6922's he sells are roughly $75 a copy, to retube my preamp it would set me back $450! | |
| Re-tube time for a BAT VK30. Advice please Kevin worte me:"In the 6922 position, you can go with the earlier Russian 6922 made in the 1970's called a 6N23. They are tubes that were sometimes branded Sovtek but Sovtek is not a manufacturer, but a name for export. They look similar but s... | |
| Re-tube time for a BAT VK30. Advice please I emailed Kevin at Upscale, I'm pretty sure he'll recommend Sovtek. Upscale keeps their more difficult to get tubes for customers who buy gear from them. I went over to Ebay, seems the Philips NOS are readily available and quite inexpensive but I ... | |
| Are you allowed to increase the selling price ? I dunno about you guys, but I always skip over the auctions here and go to the classifieds. In fact, I'd love to see the auctions go away altogether here, just takes up space. I'd prefer to not follow a purchase for five days, I have a life. if th... |