tonykay
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| Advice on Selling Vintage Equipment Nice ad! All that's missing is your phone number. | |
| S.A.M. Turntables... I have seen those S.A.M. turntables for sale here on Audiogon. They seem too good to be true, for the price offered. That’s no disrespect to the manufacturer. If they can make and sell them for that price, OK. If it were me (and I’m not you), I wo... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Some do, some don't...that should be obvious! There are two economic factors at work; "supply and demand", and "the time value of money." A well-preserved pair of JBL L200, L300 or Paragon can be significantly more than the original 1960-70 price.... | |
| Fair price for a Yamaha RX-V1 I’ll give you one more good suggestion. Look around for a DAC. I added a Benchmark DAC1 (which can be found for cheap) to my Oppo 105D CD player and it made a huge difference. Most of my listening is through headphones. I was so impressed that I’m... | |
| Tekton Brisance I’m with you prof! This looks like another unsolicited, gushing "seems too good to be true" announcement about a new speaker from Tekton. Add it to the growing list. This is not an "outrageous comment," just my opinion and I KNOW that I am entitle... | |
| DACs with volume controls Since you mention that you have "little money", I recommend looking for a Benchmark DAC1. When introduced, they sold for $995 but today you can find them for a few hundred dollars. I saw one the other day on Craigslist for $200. And yes, it does h... | |
| 1st SACD Purchase My first SACD purchase was a pre-owned "Blonde on Blonde" (Dylan, as if you wouldn't know). | |
| Are there any GOOD Dylan SACD remasters? One of my favorite Dylan SACDs is the Mobile Fidelity version of "John Wesley Harding". I have all the Dylan hybrid CD/SACDs but JWH is my favorite. | |
| US vs Japanese Beatles remasters As a teen, I bought my first Beatles vinyl as a US version. Wondering if there was a difference between US and the more-expensive UK albums, I bought a UK version. I found the UK vinyl to be superior to the US ones. The sound was so much more tran... | |
| No Direction Home, Dylan documentary by Martin Scorsese. Politics aside, I’m a big fan of Bob Dylan and Jackson Browne although many of their songs are blatantly political. When I listen to music, I’m not listening to see if their song aligns with my own political views. If I did, I would undoubtedly ha... | |
| What to do with pre-owned vinyl? Try "Half-Price Books" if you have one in your area. You may not get much, but they hand you money and then you are done with it. If not, follow the advice above and try to sell them to a used-record store. | |
| Looking for closed back headphone advice There are exceptions to every rule, but in general dedicated headphone amps are superior to headphone jacks on integrated amplifiers. Also, CD sound can be further improved by the addition of a quality DAC which often includes headphone output wit... | |
| Scam or awesome deal We moved to Arizona from the Bay Area. There is rarely anything worth considering in the Phoenix Craigslist. However, I do look through it occasionally. If I find anything of interest at a reasonable price, I usually look at the ad only to find th... | |
| Looking for closed back headphone advice With your $700 budget, I would look to Sennheiser, Denon or Beyerdynamic. There's a pair of Beyerdynamic T-1s for sale here now. You decide. | |
| Looking for closed back headphone advice I have used Stax headphones for years, most recently a pair of 009s with a Stax SRM-T1S. I love them, but missed the intimacy and isolation of closed-back phones. I found a used pair of Audeze LCD-XC phones here for around $800. They are not quite... |