One product I regret losing, I didn't even sell. I just bought a model from EBay of my first ever audio product that I got from my dad when I was around 8 years old in the 1970s. It's very special as it woke up my passion for audio. It was a Panasonic cassette player. At some point my mum gave me (after I pointed at it in some store) an external larger speaker for it with much better bass. To interconnect the two I used a power strip and mains power connectors for the speaker, because I thought it would give me some flexibility and I could find these things in my dad's collection of stuff. One day I was in school and my mum wanted to demo the system for my aunt. So she took the "speaker connector" (= mains plug) and plugged it into the actual mains power and my speaker went up in smoke with a big bang LOL. When I came home she apologized and with my dad being working overseas, she allowed me to take over their Bang & Olufsen Beomaster 901 system in my room. I was 10 years old and was happy with this deal. My mum told my dad what happened and he decided to buy some other system. After I graduated majoring in electronics engineering, my first job was at B&O's R&D department.
I bought a Radio SHack am fm cassete player recorder because I had those Radio SHack catalogs they hads in their stores with Bosto9n POPSS composter ARTHUR FIELDLERS and i thought Radio Shck was cool an d hippy and groovy. It was a piece of garbage kepy folning y cassete tapes because the rease head and playbeck record head, or however theo 2 heads are, were nto alighesn and the damages tpaes sounded like a flangers effecte I am totllythrilled RADIO SHACK is no more i DONT LIKE STHEM! A rotating vector of angular speed...... THANKES YOUES AN DTHUBBMS UPS!
i love cops I enjoyed reading those Radio Shack catalogues but I never liked their audio products. But some times they had interesting things and I miss to go to a real store.
I had a sony cassette player in the 70's as my source. It was a beautiful looking thing and really well made. The sound was absolute crap, but it suited my purpose as I couldn't really afford to buy LPs so I recorded other people's stuff. I don't even know how that ended up leaving. I think it was lost in a move or a theft of a storage locker.
Cool that you worked at B&O after probably really liking that gear. I remember hearing a B&O system at my uncle's house when I was young and being amazed at the sound. Not now of course, but back then it made some amazing sound in his study.
@@user-od9iz9cv1w B&O's audio engineering is world-class but it doesn't show in all products. Most products are more pushed by design constraints than highest audio fidelity. However, probably the most advanced audiophile speaker on the planet is done by B&O: www.bang-olufsen.com/en/speakers/beolab-90
Klipsch Cornwall IIs...didn't have room for them in my townhouse...and realistically don't have room for them in my house now but gosh they were fun...
Thanks for an honest heartfelt answer. What do I regret selling? Nothing. Sell?? I have been an audio enthusiast for 50 years. I have never sold anything. I have had some stuff stolen. I have lost some in various moves. I have thrown out some of the early junk. And the CD players that quickly became obsolete. But I still have the speakers I bought in 1982. Then went DIY where everything evolves and gets recycled.
I've just finished a total refurb of my Pioneer PL-4 turntable...I know it's not a High End gear, BUT that particular machine was my first buy back on 1984.....Few Adcoms and Sansui are waiting for their turn...I don't buy, i don't sell either.....Greetings from Greece to all the members of this excellent community......P.S. I've studied electronics and sound engineering....P.S.2 STAY SAFE PEOPLE WHEREVER YOU ARE.......
One of Paul's best vids! That was a great story. Been involved with hifi for some time now and, TBH, I can't think of a piece of equipment that I've regretted selling, even when I did so for financial reasons. I guess I've always looked at audio gear (and most inanimate objects) as tools, and no tool is perfect. Glad I had the opportunity to own some decent gear, but when it was time to move on, it was time to move on.
Great story about the '63 split-window coupe. When I got my first real job as a tech in a Chevy dealership in 1973, I bought myself a '74 Camaro Z-28. Man, that car was something and very much a babe magnet. Imported it into the Middle East a couple of years ago when I was Group Service Mgr for a GM dealership. Took it for a ride soon after it arrived and like you, was disappointed. Seems you can't go back. Sold it a few weeks ago.
I love watching this man! I regret selling my 5.1 Pioneer high end amp which i had no idea how to setup or adjust, sold it for 80 euros, can find them used for 500 now and now i know what i was supposed to do with it 😕
I had a Nakamichi pre-amp (forgot even the model number, I only remember it was grey, not black and had Alps pot-meters inside and there where only discrete components) for a very short time. I bought it second hand in a high end Audio shop. I was a Teenager repairing audio and TVs for a TV and Audio repair shop. I took it to that shop we opened it up and marveled over the build quality. The owner who is the first audiophile I knew, then suggested to put it on his gear so we did so and within minutes he said he wanted it. Obviously I felt like I did not have a lot of choice in that matter so I sold it to him for exactly the same money I just bought it for. I don't regret selling it to him being also something like a friend but I do regret never having had the chance to enjoy it my self and I also never saw that model preamp anywhere anymore.
Regret parting with solid state SAE 31B amplifier and matching SAE Mark 30 preamp. Have had several separates since but there was something about that combo. One of the nicest sounding low power (50-60 watt) combos I have heard.
My Boston A400 speakers. I will never sell them and have had them re-coned to my wife's shock. My wife said, "Those things are so old and big, why don't you buy smaller speakers. You know, those ones you don't see." For the next 5 years after the re-coning we've had the same constant argument. We moved last year and the speakers are still mounted on the walls of the new media room. Best overall listening speakers I've ever heard and I've used a lot of professional studio speakers in my audio career. They aren't studio grade but they still sound great.
I owned a pair of Dahlquist dq20i, they were the sweetest sounding speakers, imaging, 3 dimensional, amazing vocals. My ex harrassed me until I sold them. Should have gotten rid of her at that point. I have 3 wonderful Sons and I did get rid of her.
When I was a teenager I was gifted a single broken MC30. It was fairly easy to repair and gave me a few years joy. At the time I had no idea how special this little amplifier was. A friend of mine also had a single mc30 and we constantly tried to convince each other to give up our lone mono block so that one of us would have a stereo pair. I gave in and sold him my mc30 for $20. 30 years later I do regret selling that amplifier. I should have held out and bought his.
Hi paul, a few years ago my own sound system was a couple of Perreaux 9000B amplifiers, these were hand made in New Zealand and are very heavy and built like a tank. Both amplifiers were used in bridge mode each amplifier was connected to 2 x Bose 901 speakers. The preamplifier was a Perreaux SM2 and the eq was a Yamaha 31 channel graphics equalizer with the usual inputs from a sony 50 disk cd player, sony minidisc player and feeds from the tv and pay tv satellite receiver. Each of the Perreaux amplifiers are 500 Watts per channel( 8 Ohms ) and 1000 ( 4 Ohms ) watts in bridged mode. It was a common practice to run these amplifiers into a 2 Ohms load, some say you could almost weld with these amplifiers !!! The sub speaker ( only one Altec 18" in a J bin ) was feed from another Perreaux 9000B and again in bridged mode, just to feed the amplifiers, and each amplifier had to be turned on ,one at a time, and this is where the problem lies, my wife would turn on the system and try and play a bit of music and turn the amplifiers all at once. This would take out the 25 Amp circuit breaker. My sound system had its own power feed from the main switch board . I certainly regret breaking up that system, but my wife wanted a smaller system that she could use. The sound stage was just staggering crisp clear and it certainly held it's head up when asked.
I have a beautiful pair of Grado Lab Series bookshelf-sized speakers that were hand built by Joseph Grado himself in the early 60s in Brooklyn. As far as I know, they're the only ones in existence of that particular size. I don't see myself ever selling them. They're in excellent condition and still sound phenomenal.
Thorens TD 160. Sold it in 79 and "upgraded" to a TD115 which turned out to be a lesser table. Still have it, though. Bought a Vinyl Nirvana TD166 MKII a few years ago to relive it. The friend I sold the TD160 to still has it and I will have it again.
To be honest, I have never regretted selling anything. I am just glad it's gone making someone else happy, and good memories cannot be sold anyways - these are a lot more important.
I regret selling my first system, it consisted of Garrard Turntable, Pioneer SX-650 receiver and JBL Century 100 speakers. I had worked and saved to pay cash for the equipment back in the 70s right after I got out of school.
I actually rebuilding the first system I ever build back in 1980. I was also working Summers and doing odd jobs the rest of the year. Even though I got lunch money every morning in high school I never spent a penny on lunches. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fw34D2gavWs.html
i have enjoyed this pursuit for almost 50 years. ive never bought anything i didnt _love_ . some friends nicknamed me 3-in-1. you know, the lubricating oil. they say thats needed to get my hand in to grab my wallet. so before i buy something,,, you can bet im in love. yes, i HAVE upgraded many things...many times. but only if i loved the new thing MORE than the old thing. therefore, ive had zero regrets. my current system is B&W 804D2 with a complete compliment of PS Audio gear. DS Transport, DS Dac, DS Power Plant 15, BHK Pre, BHK Mono amps & Cardas cables. im in 7th heaven.....i think ill be holdin tight right here for a good l o n g while.
Sounds like you have bought wisely.A decent system you have there.Some if us have made errors of judgement,which have ended up costing more in the long run,unfortunately.
I miss my Yamaha CA-2010 Integrated Amp (~1978) + Allison 3 (Corner) speakers (1980). (Plus Yamaha YP-D6 TT + Nakamichi cassette.) Sold both in a move in 2000. It has taken me 20 years and probably $30k to get back to the SQ I had then. (Plus, I have had a series of lousy rooms for sound.) Today I am all-PS Audio and Tannoy -- a combination I never hear. They are both kinda "old school" sound. Well, I have "old school" ears now. When I hit 60, my ears did weird things in the high frequencies. Not just loss, but different. All of today's modern, "revealing" tower speakers (like B&W, Focal) sound crunchy/brittle/disjointed to me. Now, I love my Cheviots. And I finally found my final desktop system = PSA GC DAC + Neumann KH120 monitors is just incredible. It sounds better than my HD600 headphones, which has always been my standard. I mostly do Roon/Qobuz and occasional SACDs for my favorites. (Oh, yeah, I also miss my 1972 BMW 2002tii.)
I once owned a Harmon Karden Citation1 and 2 amp and preamp, both in excellent condition all tube. I hear that they have attained near legendary status. For some insane reason I sold them to my brother in law for the princely sum of $40. MAN I wish I had them back!
Thank you Paul - this question is close to my heart. I sold few things very many years ago and definitely I was later regreting it "without limits". But it does'nt mean that I believe that nothing should be sold. But every piece of gear is unique and if apparently it fills all our dreams it will be impossible to get exactly the same again. That is always analog. in end I did so with wondefull luxory radio (German tube) which with my DIY spakers and tape recorder gave me thrills. I wanted the same goodnes but in stereo. Sold radio and speaker to my colege. With later produced stereo it was never the same with l As remedy I purchsed two the same model radios to couple them in one case and make it anyway stereo with old thrills. It was impressive looking and playing but no way - those looking identical radios were worse pieces than one I sold and (of couse) amplifiers sounded different - just small detail - producer in one of them made unique modification which coiuld be found only with lookins inside . On other side I kept tube/tranistor mono R2R for 40 years . For that I bless myself - I used it as my standard to met. Apparently few years ago I cheaply purchsed the same but hardly used. Of course it is not so good as the old one - old head was machined apparently in better way and allowed to extend sopranos to 19 Khz ( standard head should make it to 14 kHz) I did exact modifications but no 19kHz. I would never trust myself if I had not kept old "scrap" to compare today. . Anyway no harm for me because I cant hear today more than 13kHz . Just observation Hopefully It all happy ended -with all gained experience I build stereo tube amplifier and spakers with which I've got back those thrills. But it took ...45 years We sholud never underestimate what we have based that we are confident that it is all that we wish to listen to.
1970's Fischer integrated amp and Jensen 222 coaxial speakers with DIY boxes. I was in teenage heaven listening to that 70's rock. Funny, When I became an adult in the 80's and moved out the neighbor came by to wish me well and said she was going to miss me and not my music. oops...
I really enjoyed this one. I've been enjoying my valve amp for 22 years now and I will never part with it. It's the same for the rest of the system. Back in the early 90s Mission launched their flagship 753 speakers. At the time I couldn't afford them and I remember looking at pictures of them in magazines. Last Christmas the 'itch' returned and I thought what the heck. I bought a pair in rosewood, still in their original packaging & I think they'd been in storage. When I plugged them in I was utterly disappointed with the sound. I removed and overhauled the crossovers. It's now a few months past and they're getting there. They're also stunning to look at.
I haven't owned a lot of different audio gear in my life (for quite a while I stopped being an audiophile). But the one item I regret somewhat no longer owning is my 80s era Linn LP12 turntable that I gifted to a family member. But from my original system I still have my Naim 42 preamp and 110 power amp. I even kept my Nakamichi BX2 tape deck.
K812? Damn Paul, a year ago you were praising the nighthawk and now you own the K812! Congrats! That's some really fast progress in the headphone game. They're really, really nice headphones.
Is theis the article you were looking for.. The Gibson Nighthawk was a family of electric guitars manufactured by Gibson. Introduced in 1993, the Nighthawk represented a radical change from traditional Gibson designs. While its maple-capped mahogany body and set neck were reminiscent of the classic Gibson Les Paul, the Nighthawk incorporated a number of characteristics more commonly associated with Fender guitars. But the Nighthawk was not a commercial success; production of all models was discontinued in 1998 after only five years. Epihpones makse a Nighthawks but it has Seymours Duncans pickus and beleive me ,t hey sound TREEIBLES. Syrmou rDunca pickups are to be avoided like they are Coronavirus! Yamaha EG Series hav enice slim tapered necks, I thinks they are Taiwan. Aria and Westones are Matsumoku.. Used about 100 bucks and really nise soundign opickups. THANKES YOUES AND THUBBMMSS UPS!
After 57 years of being an audiophile, I have many regrets about selling so many pieces of equipment like an Audio Research Sp3A-1 pre and D-7g amp with a pair of Dahlquist DQ-10 speakers. What a loss...I could kick myself. A Dynaco reworked ST-7- amp and a real boner sale of my Threshold 4000 amp, a Levinson M1 pre, Infinity RS-1B's, a Nakamichi Dragon casette deck, a Koetsu Black Goldline MC cartridge and Koetsu MC step up transformer. Recently I traded up my Audible Illusions Modulus 3B pre. The sound of this pre-amp was beyond belief and I should have never sold it. Lots of other pieces as well. Something about selling my quality tube equipment that made feel that I was loosing good friends.
I remember advertizeing for Nakamichi Dragins in about 1987. I was trying to save money for the Studer Revox but the reqies I saw they really preferred te Dragon. if i rember coretly, t Had some aotumatix bias for they tye of magneti ctape used, chromkum or ferrous or whatevers, and head azimuth adjustment things. THNAKS YOU AND THUMBBS UPS!
My Soundcraftsmen MA-5002 power amp. May still pick one up or the A-5002 one day if the price is right. BTW, the '63 Split Window Corvette is one of the most sought after Corvettes and typically fetch over $125k- hopefully your cousin kept his tucked away in a garage somewhere...Enjoy your videos
My AR-xa turntable for sure. Simple, utterly reliable and handsome style. I finally got tired of its totally manual operation - not even an arm lift! - after about 20 years. When I told my dealer my plan his eyes lit up and he offered me $90, what I’d paid for it. Can’t complain about that, but still wish I had it back.
I have a spot for a lot of mid 70 to early 80's Realistic stuff. Brushed aluminum faces, Walnut cases and that's a receiver. Have a STA 64 Receiver that is a work of art in it's simplicity and elegance.
@Fat Rat AM I missing something here? Paul's talking about Audio Research, Dave and that other guy mentions Acoustic Research and then you state the founders of each company.....lol
This is what I founds... During this time, players such as Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone), Robbie Krieger (The Doors), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), John McVie (Fleetwood Mac), and Jaco Pastorius were avid users of Acoustic amplifiers, which helped them to develop their trademark sounds. I henst dont know antingg about thems. Never herd Scott GRove mention thems. One of their base amps has a Diretc Output xkr hack, A.K.A. K-BOOOOOOM to the sound reinfrcement if someone turns on the amp and the sound reforsement is turned on. Sorry i donts kn any more. thaKNS you, you aremein new freds. THUMBBS USP! BTW m ister Fleetwood Mac is the name of a band, GO YOR OWN WAY 9176, not te CABINET RECORD PLAYER buit in tuner and speakers with the green light buttons. THUMBBS UPS!
My mother use to work for Acoustic Research up in Cambridge Ma. My brother still has pictures of Henry Kloss and Ed Villchur with my mom and other workers at there company.
Henry Kloss did lots of adverzing in STERES RIVIES and maybe AUDIO. I have magazines frim back then. He would adverzize headphones and such I remembers him. henry kloss THANKES YOU AND THUYBBS UPS!
Here are mine. Three of them I owned, one of them on loan. 1. Acarian Systems Alon 1 speakers. The most holographic and open speakers I've ever owned. Not the most efficient, but the only speakers that could open the soundstage to the entire front of the room, above and below the ceilings and floors. Imaging was very good. Not quite the pinpoint accuracy of, say, Dunlavy's but damn good. Sweet midrange, decent bass with good placement. Sold them to raise money for school. 2. Dunlavy SC-1 (SM-1) monitor speakers. *The* most pinpoint accurate speakers I've ever heard. In a concert I could hear who was whistling, who was clapping, and in which row and seat they were in. Easy to drive. Still my reference for imaging. I've heard that the Linkwitz Labs lxmini images very close to the SC-1 with a holographic projection similar to the Alons. I had these on loan and regretted when I had to return them. 3. B&K EX442 200wpc amp. A great, sweet-sounding MOSFET power amp. Picked it up used for about $200 in good shape. Drove the Alon's very easily and probably anything else like Magnepans etc. These days an EX442 still costs about the same in good shape and they come up for auction on ebay about once a month or so. Chances are they need new caps by now, so make sure they've been serviced. They are also heavy, so shipping isn't cheap. Sold to raise money for school. These days though I think I'd prefer to use high end class D amps from with modules from Purifi and do active miniDSP bi/tri amping. Much, much more efficient. 4. Project Ember hybrid tube/solid-state headphone amp. A great DIY project which I had the OEM build for me. Excellent amp for tube rolling (testing). Discovered some incredible tubes to use with this. My two favorites for both sound and value are the Raytheon 12AX7 "Organ Tubes". Specifically selected by Baldwin to use in their organs. The other is a Sylvania 7963 ballistic missile tube. It's a subminiature variant of the classic european 6DJ8. Both sweet and accurate.
Akai GX-625. Sold it for $350 back in 1992. That's what it was worth in 1992. I regretted it immediately. Still had the original transistors in it, they hadn't begun failing yet. Sweet sounding deck.
So to have the absolute best (memory) buy it, enjoy it, then sell it way before the 'next thing' comes out, and NEVER go back for a listen. That way you'll have a great memory of magical equipment that can never be beat.
Easy, Audio Research SP-6E preamp. I blame Harry Pearson who said step up transformers were no good. I replaced it with an SP-15, the one piece I most regret buying. That one got replaced with a C.A.T., which was replaced by a Musical Fidelity NuVista, which was then replaced by a hand made preamp made by Jeff Korneff using the 76 tube as an output. The phono stage is now a Vendetta Research. I wish I had bought that instead of the SP-15, I would still have the SP-6. I still have everything except the Audio Research equipment. Most of what I have now will never be sold.
Polk SDA CRS+. Sold it after 30 years because it didn't seem to fit as home theater fronts and then Polk comes out with a newer version of the SDA technology.
My Hardon Kardon HK 990 and my Sansui AU-11000 ! The Sansui sounded so beatiful ! I have a Sansui -G-8000 and its great in the bottom end and midrange but the top end of the Sansui AU-11000 ohh my detailed with weight
Miss my old pink triangle turntable with helios orion arm and Myst Tma3 integrated amp back in the 80s... Sold them and my albums to fund humanitarian adventures oversea. But they sounded wonderful to my memory - but happily would not change a thing. Luckily after decades away I have now managed put together a modest but great sounding secondhand streaming system. But still happily remember those good old vinyl days being lost in music with friends. And chatting about music, hi-fi and our systems and good vinyl pressings. Funnily not much has really changed in that respect...although music production seems to have got worse new artists and music are still amazing and inspiring.
@@johnlebeau5471great combo ..I nearly got the Linn ittok arm but chose the Orion instead. but it was close. Am real happy and glad to hear you have and enjoy your PT - as they were/are great turntables - Very musical, engaging and spacial. I remember demo'ing and preferring it to the Linn LP12 and Mitchell gyrodeck - which were the other main players back in the day...and none of us could afford an oracle lol. Thanks for sharing
To each their own as I say. No they are not the granny cars we have today but there is something about them. Its the same with airplanes. We have modern jets but pilots want to fly P51 Mustangs and such. Something about the rawness of it all.
James Plotkin DONT worry I got your amp. Paid nearly 12k to ship here but the pioneer is safe lol. You will see it in a video before the end of the year. It’s been a labour of love. Might not be yours and maybe it was who knows
I have a Dokorder reel to reel recorder I will not sell, it needs restauration though. I originally bought it for 25 Dutch guilders and the owner wanted to get rid of it because supposedly the recording head was broken and could not be sourced any more. What was really broken was the tape / source switch and low an behold is a generic part. I replaced it for f3.95 That was 35 years ago.
Like a fool I sold my 1972 Marantz 2245 in 2012. But in 2019 my wife bought me a very cherry one that I saw on Craigslist. Later in the year my cousin's widow gave me his extremely clean 2245 and that's the one would never sell. The cousin had bought an very early version with the champagne color engraved faceplate. Such a nice gift.
Quality nor State of any Art can trump nostalgia and sentimentality. When an inanimate object garners emotional attachment the bond can be almost inseparable. I have my Dad's Gillette Razor from the late thirties that he took around the world in WWII. There's not a shaver on the planet that could replace it. Your relationship with titans of (the) industry such as Arnie make the attachment all the more solid, one could imagine.
Same experience: Owned a set of B&W CDM 7se speakers almost 20 years ago. They looked great and sounded great with any decent power amp. Rotel RB981 and some tube amps (EL34 and 300b), you name it. Visited someone with those speakers a year ago and expected the same experience. Unfortunately they did sound lean, flat and not as i remember in any way. Not sure what was wrong in that system but my old favorite speakers are different (worse) in my head now. No way I sell my Monitor Audio RX6 to buy those large B&W's back. What I never should have sold: my first pre-amp, a Musical Fidelity x-pre. Loved that little one. If I had it today I would try a combo with some DIY Hypex power amps and some nice speakers for my study room.
For me it has to be a set of Sonus Faber Electa Amator II's. I wish I still had them. My current active DIY speakers are better, but they were such a sweet sounding pair of speakers.
That was awesome I so agree when you heard something at your dealer and it sounded so good you try to figure out how you can get the money together to actually buy it ,you get it home and it’s even better! You spend the rest of your audio life striving for that same experience but it rarely happens:( Magneplanar MG 2s was my heroin ,been chasing the dragon ever since.
My first OMG revelation was KLH Nines driven by Audio Research playing Amanda Mcbroom. First time I ever heard a real human voice coming from a stereo. I got a pair of KLH nines but they need work. I told the guy I bought the Acoustats from and he said the Acoustats sound better than the nines. I don't disagree but I have to get my nines working at some point.
3:20 It's not just age, but also fashion and the point of reference caused by fashion. For example: I think that most people are way more easily satisfied in terms of good sound nowadays, because of the introduction of crappy sound bars which the average person got used to.
Meridian 508.24--amazingly analog sounding cd player; Classe 15 power amp--I think one of the best they've ever done; Conrad Johnson 17ls--sweetest sounding preamp I've ever owned and a pair of Aerial Acoustics model 7s I gave to my sister. Yes when I came into the hobby I wanted revealing and detail and now I'm old I mostly want musical (euphonious) and not more detail.
Supratek preamp, Dodd Audio preamp, Vandersteen Quatros. And older Accuphase integrated amp. Not particularly great but it had some unique qualities usually associated with vintage gear. And it was cheap. It probably runs around 2K on used market these days.
Selling my Densen DM10 integrated amp was a huge mistake.. this was like running a S.S. amp with tube sound qualities and solid state control of the speakers! Magic! ..and as for something I wouldn't ever part with, the current speakers, Thiel CS6. If I was to replace these now and get similar or better sound, I would have to spend massive amounts of money.
Depends how nostalgic you are. For me as soon as I have found something better and I buy it I never think of the previous gear again. Time has moved on and so has performance so if you crave something you used to have you have made a wrong choice and need to rethink what you’ve ended up with. Personally I just want the best tool for the job.
Hi Paul, love your videos. Have you ever watched Overhaul with Chip Foose, maybe someone in your family can get the car you always wanted and some how be on overhaul. Just a suggestion. I wish more high end audio company's do what you do to explain high end audio. Thank You for all your information on Audio. ✌️
I'll never sell my dad's Sansui G-9000 - just a cool receiver with good sound and was my gateway into Hifi. Ironically he used to have a blue 63 split window... cool car. Still has a 68 Camaro SS L89 that will be mine one day :)
A bit 'left-field' if you'll allow me, but you can't get higher-end than real / live (what our equipment is trying to approach for us) and I really need to let this go; I sold my Live-Aid ticket at face value (£16.50 s $20:00) in 1985 as I didn't know anyone else that knew what it was supposed to be all about, so I thought 'the gig' might be a flop (!!!) thinking the money would be better spent on beers in Corfu, Greece, on my summer vacation... The worst of it is, and it lives with me every day, that some way down the line I'm (hopefully) gonna be having a chat with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, and I just know he's gonna look at me and say 'Ha - so you're the one. I've been looking forward to having this conversation..." , and yes, I really wish I hadn't sold that ticket...😭😭😭😭😭😭
I own a PS Audio BHK Signature preamplifier, but I just acquired a Audio Research SP-3A1 today. What differences should I sonically expect between the two preamplifiers?
Something very simple yet unmistakably good. I didn’t realize out of ignorance. To this day going on 12 years I still regret it. Nakamichi car head unit made in Japan. I bought it used refurbished, the CD player was repaired. Nothing fancy about it. I traded my car in with that. Big Big mistake.
After one of my NAD 220 power amps completely blew up and caught fire (had 2, vertically bi-amped) I thought of selling my entire system (divorce and all happening) which drove my beloved AR9s from 1979, BUT, I never did. Still have them, won't sell them, ha ha! (they need cone and tweeter work now but...)
I have no regrets about the audio equipment I've sold on Ebay. I have better stuff now (bought most of it on Ebay). I do, however, have a regret about a special, numbered pressing of "Dark Side of the Moon" that sold yesterday on Ebay. It sold on one hour for $100.00. I should have asked for $200.00.
I sold my handbuilt danish Densen Phonostage, I got a wonderful Rega Aria phonostage now but seriously regret selling my Densen allthough I was not using it.
Me it would be a late 1990's Denon Receiver. Supposedly was one of the best in the store at the time. Brought it home and hooked it up to my Infinity RS IIIa's and it was in over load protection by a 1/4 volume and when it did play it sounded like crap. Had absolutely no features and was just a black box. It ended up in a bedroom for a while and then I sold it just to get rid of it.
I regret gifting my father’s 3-way Ampfitone 25AS-027 (25АС-018 “Амфитон») with isodynamic tweeters paired with Ampfitone Phono Amp and Electronica TDS 5M headphones.
I sold my Linn Sondek LP12 ten years ago ! I lost intrest in listening to records for a couple o years. Now that i have got the passion or listening back, i regret my mistake. A LP12 brand new is almost a fortune so if i gonna buy me one it has to be a used one. I´m using a Rega planar 2 but i miss the presentation of music that Linn have.
Regret the klipsch fortes, ar3as, and kef c80s i turned loose of, and quite a few others but thats the main ones i think about, other than that i have kef ls50s now and im not going to regret these as their staying put where they are.
My neighbor gave me pair of Quad 57s and I just finished the rebuild. They are super sweet and I love them, but the effort and cost of the rebuilt components is really high. They are from 1972 and had been in the factory crate for the last thirty years. If you rebuilt four it would cost at least $5,000. Might be worth it, though!
Funny time for this video to come out when I just posted the second video of a series I'm calling "My First Stereo Revival". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fw34D2gavWs.html I'm rebuilding my first system from 40 years ago to see what and if anything has changed over the years. I really think I have been on the same path audio wise since I was a little kid. When I get my old system rebuilt I will know.
I didn't sell it but I went to my mom's house to grab my dad's old pioneer (both deceased now) SX 850? recievor and his AR XB turntable and when I got there to my dismay in its place was a JVC a/v receiver☹️! I looked all over and it's just gone... What a bummer. I'm sure the JVC is not bad recievor but it's an modernish A/V (still prob 20yo+) so I didn't even bother grab it. I did grab the XB. But the stylus is damaged, the hits just keep ah commin. any affordable recommendations? it has a Stanton 890AL DJPRO cartridge with a damaged AL D89 stylus at the moment. I always thought that turntable over that pioneer over his Century L100s had that real nice 70s old school HIFI vibe, at least I still have the turntable and JBL's both in great condition. Maby hook em to my ol backup Sansui 331 my dad scored for $10 garage sale n gave me years ago prob a good match.
It may not be high end but I gave my Pioneer QX-4000 quad receiver to Goodwill. I can only hope someone is putting it to good use. Another was a JVC 705 series Dolby Pro Logic receiver. 120 wpc Dynamic Super A. Not the best for HT but great for a 2 channel stereo. It blew a capacitor & left it in the alley.😧 Never again!
High end? no but i do miss my first good sounding speakers, My wharfedale 225. Coming from the headphone hobby, those speakers made me realize i like speakers more than headphones. But its time to move on for bigger and better things. Great topic! if ever i have the chance to own those infinity speakers, I wouldn’t sell them too.
