gear wh*re

Ok, I really seem to have a problem letting unused gear go.
I've got stuff stashed away I'm never going to use again, but
I keep it. I'm starting to feel like one of those crazy people on
tv that horde stuff. I've let a couple of things go in the last year,
but most of that went to local polkies I know well. I do find myself
breaking it out once in a while to re-rate what's good and bad.
I almost thought about selling my set of my Bedrocks, but I put
them back into the system. And they do sound good. I guess it's
time to roll stuff out and see what happens. Now that my tube
hybrid Stax amp is running, I'm going over to head fi and dump
a bunch of stax amps. Really, I am. Maybe ........

How about a beer at your house, and you can get me going on something to setup here?

:D

If you go through the re-rate process, I'd accompany you if you'd let me :D
I went over to marvin's house on Super bowl Sunday and had a great time listening to things (music and speakers alike) I'd otherwise never have had access to.

keep me on the short list of destinations for some of that stash. I promise to give them a sgood home and play nicely with them often.:):cool:

until you have to climb on top of your gear to get to a different room then you might have too much, until then enjoy!
jk
If you lived closer I would say I'm more than willing to help you sort through some stuff!
but it is hard to give up stuff your not using, I had the problem with music gear, guitar, saxophone ect just hard to let it go even though you don't really use it anymore.

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Originally Posted by RuSsMaN

How about a beer at your house, and you can get me going on something to setup here?

:D

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The offers still good on the Nad tuner/pre. Yours if you come get it.
You still got my number?
Any if anyone local needs a good amp for Sennheisers, let me know.
I don't think I need three of those either!
Goal one- one set of stax headphones/energizer
goal two- one amp for my Senns
goal three- one set of 2 channel speakers
(the ones at both son's apartments don't count)
Goal 4 one Dac, one CDP
goal 5 one two channel amp -either stay 50wpc tube or go big SS.

If all goes well, I'll be giving away a bunch of fat clothes, too. Down 25lbs!

I just give it away.

I smell a Karma coming...

I like this thread. I have a few items in boxes in the shed that I'm sure I'll never use again one of them being a Hafler DH 220 amplifier. I bought it to do the Musical Concepts mods on it. I completed the mods back in 1988. I've never heard this amp before modding it or after. For some sick reason, I just can't bring myself to sell it or even give it away.

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Originally Posted by hearingimpared

I just can't bring myself to sell it or even give it away.

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I'd be more than willing to take it off your hands for free, lol. I need an amp for my newly aquired Monitor 10's. :D

-Jeff

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Originally Posted by wutadumsn23

I'd be more than willing to take it off your hands for free, lol. I need an amp for my newly aquired Monitor 10's. :D

-Jeff

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I don't even know if the damn thing works!:eek: It's heavy as hell though.

Then drag it out and test it already, lol. Heavy=bad for shipping to WA. from NJ. though, lol.

-Jeff

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Originally Posted by wutadumsn23

Then drag it out and test it already, lol. Heavy=bad for shipping to WA. from NJ. though, lol.

-Jeff

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You are talking about a major pain in the ass, digging it out, unhooking MIT biwires, connecting new speaker wires, not to mention no working space in or near the rack. . . not to mention needing a variac to wake it up slowly. . . bah humbug!!!

BTW I'm in Newark DE, not that armpit Newark NJ!:eek::D

I'm hardy alone here in that, am I?
I did recently clear out most of the networking gear , two dozen servers,
and several large equipment racks out of the garage. Now's it's time to
clean out the gadgets in the office, too. Maybe throw out a couple of pc's.
I don't need one on every MS operating system ever made any more.

Another DFW Metromess Polkie here, if you need help dumping gear you let me know! I think your list of Goals is a good list but as long as you have closet space available then maybe a back-up device or two can't be all bad. Congradulations on loosing the 25lbs. it is hard work right? I think I am down about 30lbs. (not sure I don't weigh myself that often) but my 42-44 inch waist is down to 38!

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Originally Posted by hearingimpared

You are talking about a major pain in the ass, digging it out, unhooking MIT biwires, connecting new speaker wires, not to mention no working space in or near the rack. . . not to mention needing a variac to wake it up slowly. . . bah humbug!!!

BTW I'm in Newark DE, not that armpit Newark NJ!:eek::D

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Joe if I ever get out your way I'll drop by and help you out with it! I just don't know when I would ever get out that way in the country.

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Originally Posted by hearingimpared

I like this thread. I have a few items in boxes in the shed that I'm sure I'll never use again one of them being a Hafler DH 220 amplifier. I bought it to do the Musical Concepts mods on it. I completed the mods back in 1988. I've never heard this amp before modding it or after. For some sick reason, I just can't bring myself to sell it or even give it away.

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whoa, my first separates (DH110 and DH220) bought in 1985, kept them until 2003 before I sold DH220 to Bruce (tour2ma) and DH110 to Jeff (forgot his CP ID) here. Yes, kept them in the closet all those times for memory-sake. Finally I had the one final farewell and tribute and moved on. They were paired with B&W DM110 back then...(sniff)

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Originally Posted by sucks2beme

Goal 4 one Dac, one CDP

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If this implies that you have more than one DAC, I might be interested. Kind of been wanting to give one a shot.