speedthrills
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| Mcintosh pre amp pricing Thanks, I actually started going back to older and older pre amps and that's what got me frustrated- units that were 10-15 years old are still asking for 5k- when they listed for 5k a decade or more back. Fewer features, old switches and knobs, ol... | |
| Mcintosh pre amp pricing Thank you for the education on how selling/buying works, I hadn't thought of it that way. | |
| Mcintosh pre amp pricing Thanks everyone, I bought a mint c53 from Audio Classics yesterday with a warranty and at a reasonable (for this unit) price. Looking forward to getting it friday and hooking it up to my 462. | |
| Used Sony XA7ES Pricing? A bit old??? Isnt it from the early 1990’s? Antiquated and high risk of a mechanical failure 30 years later is my two cents. | |
| He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. Pretty sad story all around. Weird system, def not worth the money, time and terrible strife and division he caused in his family and sold for piece meal pennies on the dollar when he died. | |
| Upgraded my cables and they transformed my system!!! Congrats! I'm not sure that you're NOT a "well heeled" audiophile though. I lost track but it looks like you spent$ 6-$7500 on 4 or 5 cables- pretty good money in anyone's book! | |
| Selling here on Audiogon I agree with others that dealers are increasingly a larger part of the Agon sellers, and yes, they- two in particular- are trying to jack prices up and sell years old gear for 70% of its original MSRP. Gear like this could have been bought new for... | |
| Finally got a Luxman Nice ! I had Klipsch Forte and Cornwall and liked them a lot too. Can the Forte 3 really be upgraded to be exactly the same as the version 4? I didn't think they could be ? Also, does anyone have experience with buying this exact Luxman amp f... | |
| SnubWay Question Thread Are product ads now part of the Forum experience here ? Asking for a friend. | |
| Tidal FLAC vs. Qobuz I have a Bluseound Vault too but for the last several years use it as a hardwired backup streaming source to my ARC/Wilson system (when Roon goes down- which it does about once a month for an hour or two) I flip over to the Vault and access Quboz ... | |
| Pending shipping questions. So...I'm more proactive when it comes to things like this. Often things do go sideways, get overlooked etc and my default is to check sooner than later rather than trust what often is a poor process. If you have no update at all on the shipment it... | |
| Have we lost civility and respect on Audio forums? Yeah, it aint just on audio forums. Everyone's suddenly an expert, everyone can't wait to show off that they're and "expert" and it sure feels safe sitting in front of a keyboard attacking, arguing, bullying people. Unfortunately though this behav... | |
| Pass Labs Preamps with tube amps? I have aa Pass XP10 and Pass 250.8- and Audio research REF150SE amp and the LS28SE pre amp; speakers are Wilson Sasha 2. I switch around combinations of the gear every few months to save hours on the tubes in the ARC and or heat generation - sound... | |
| Tung-Sol kt170 tube started glowing brighter @kitegod , Yes, you can replace the one bad tube with one with similar numbers on it and then check / reset bias. If your amp isn't rated for the KT170 despite being told it should work it might be safest to revert to the tube types that are speci... | |
| Anyone else order Caladans from Clayton Shaw? @knock1 Not sure what you're concerned about- the OP expressed concern about ordering the speakers and getting no response/no purchase confirmation for two weeks. I commented that getting no confirmation, no acknowledgement of the order should be ... |