The starting bid on the RAM speakers has miraculously gone from £0.99 to £250.00….
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The starting bid on the RAM speakers has miraculously gone from £0.99 to £250.00….
It was £250 when I first looked which wasn't that long after you posted them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Easy worth that anyway. Being collection only plus most eBay punters won't have a clue what they are I reckon they won't go for much more.
I won't buy anything on eBay these days due to most sellers stating 'collection only'. There is a piece of audio electronics which interest me, but the 'collection only' condition means there will be no purchase from me.
Speakers are perhaps a different matter, but quotes can be obtained from couriers for delivery costs in advance, if the interested buyer gives a rough idea of their location.
It's just to much aggro to ship speakers. Cost aside it's easy for them to get damaged. I suppose if they're really small it isn't too bad but otherwise the heroic levels of packing required make it a no-go for me. In fact I won't ship speakers even if I have all the original packing, which I often do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Full Miller & Kreisel surround sound set up. Price is keen.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/297595647968?
Tidy Yamaha pre-power from the days when hi-fi equipment looked like hi-fi equipment:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/277612949643?
This pair of ex-dem speaker cables are way below half price, I'd say that's a billy bargain :)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/168050995...Bk9SR8C916SDZw
love it....:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yes, that's a saving of £10,600! You could almost buy a complete system with that. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Ended with no bids. Back up again on a BIN at £300Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/157622050519
Obviously happy to sit on them until someone bites... I'm sure there will be someone who will take a punt, I would defy anything new at £300 to sound as good. (Given that my RAM 150's sit unused I really don't need to pounce on them!)
Totally. I don't know what you can get today for £300 new but suspect not much more than some tiny little thing with ten bob drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
According to the listing, the saving would actually be nearly £33,000 :eek: With that kind of saving I could also build a dedicated listening room to put my complete system in to... with enough left for carpets and curtains. Just have to save up for some Nordost interconnects then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The price for these cables new is £37,350. The selling price on the eBay site you quote is £26,750. You do the sums! ;)
(The new price I quoted seems to have disappeared, but a HiFi+ review quotes £43,399 for a 4 metre pair, whereas the pair for sale are 3 metre long. The new price for a 3 metre pair will be greater than 3/4 x £43.399 = £32,549, so the figure of £37,350 seems realistic.}
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But however you look at it, it's a ridiculous price to pay. It is suggested you spend 10% of the system cost on cables, so goodness knows how much the seller spent on his system.
Ah, I was going off the rrp that the seller mentioned in his description... Not such a bargain after all :( I think I'll pass. So 10% is the guide is it? I think my spend amounts to only about 2% :doh: But I don't see any cable upgrades on the horizon, I have other priorities these days, like keeping the lights on :)
When you consider the possible attraction of ridiculously priced products to a buyer then money laundering is one. Sold on at a loss obviously, but in return for clean funds. Just saying hypothetically.
Be interested to see where this one ends, QUAD 66 pre-amp and tuner with the desktop remote
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/277714086177?
Tuner really only a showpiece but this has always been my favourite QUAD pre with volume knob on the remote instead of up/down buttons.
And the orange display ofc. Lots of bids so far.
Interesting Tannoy 15'' HPDs up in Geordie-land:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357871671692?
That is very, very cool!Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Interesting in that the cones have been painted I wonder what that does to the sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Does mention in the description that the cones have been doped. Done right would make the response smoother at a cost of some sensitivity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Seems like the studio closed back in the late 1980s or early 90s.
If you look at photos 15 then 18 I think someone has painted the cone with the same paint they used for the cabinet. It looks like it might have gone on the surround as well. I wouldn't be touching them with a bargepole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Yes I see what you mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
Also the cabs seem way too small for those drivers to operate optimally.
I did say they were 'interesting' but not necessarily for the right reasons :)
Just out of interest how easy is it to recone a hard edged Tannoy? Is it just a case of glueing the cone to the chassis and does someone even make hard edged cones still?
Despite admiring the elegant aesthetics, and undoubted fine sound quality, I try to eschew anything that requires the use of a remote control. Can't do anything about TVs and DVD players, but I can and do with audio equipment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
My Levinson CDP has a remote, but it is not necessary to use it to operate the player.
Agree there's no need for a CDP remote but remote control of volume is handy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I do have remotes for the amp and the CD player. After trying them once I took the batteries out, and they're now in a drawer somewhere. I don't mind getting up to do the work myself, the exercise is good for me.
If you live close enough, buy buy buy!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/366174872452?
Yes please! Shame they're all the way over in Italy.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/287174527...b52347321a26ea
I was after some of them for years and years.
You've got me watching Kenrick Sound videos again:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
It's the Playboy Mansion of Hi-Fi shops.Quote:
Originally Posted by User211
Well tidy Yamaha CDX1060 - in Switzerland though
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/177534134698?
TEAC Reference 500 full stack including the minidisc player, very tidy:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/336518342313?
Children playing up at bedtime? Just threaten to put this in their room:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236718364...kAAOSwjmJkJ3Mb
Probably not worth the asking price but it's pretty cute:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256674018656?
How more '80s could it be? And the answer is, 'None. None more '80s.'
Cute? - it's downright ugly! :doh:
Jacko's got some interesting vintage kit there. But you'd have to be wacko to be ok with those prices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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Diatone speakers in Bedworth, drivers look okay.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/397813407534?
Don't think I've ever seen any Diatone for sale in this country before.
Seller's item description is a bit rubbish - it says the driver size is 5.1 inches, while everyone knows it has a 25mm tweeter, 100mm mid-range and 270mm woofer.
I hate it when driver sizes are in metric, it means nothing to me. I have to convert them in my head and I don't like using brainpower for that, it's limited!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Same with room dimensions.
After working with metric for 40-odd years, I don't need to convert to imperial in my head. I just think in metric. In fact, if I were given an imperial size I would convert to metric!
Working in millimetres is so simple - being whole numbers they are easy to add up or subtract. Better than adding up in feet and inches, I mean what's one foot four and three quarters plus two feet nine and five eighths?
Yes but I can't instantly visualise metric. I appreciate it's easier for measuring up and calculations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I vividly remember the transition to decimal currency. As a child I was struggling to get a grip on the Anglo-Saxon base 12 counting (or whatever it was) with old money, so decimal made perfect sense.
But years later I struggled with the transition from paper files to viewing them as scanned images on computer.
I guess it's just a case of what you're used to.
I think it actually dates back to the Sumerians. 3000BC or thereabouts. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete The Cat
I expect most people will know this, but I'll say it anyway:
1 litre of water = 1,000cc = 1 kilogram.
1,000 litres of water will measure 1 cubic metre and weigh one metric tonne (1,000 kilograms). So easy.
I read somewhere that President Jimmy Carter tried to introduce the metric system, but ran into too much opposition. The author suggested Americans don't want to take on anything they didn't think of first.
Had a youngster at work telling me all this and how Imperial was so inferior. I asked him how tall he was. 'Six foot seven' he says, proudly. He only realised what he'd done when everyone else in the office burst out laughing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
:D I reckon most of us are guilty of mix 'n' match when it comes to SI units - I know I'm 5'9", no idea what that is in centimetres. Even though I've used metric exclusively in my work for decades. As for miles vs. kilometres - when driving in Europe, I mentally convert road signs in order to understand distances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
That's it though isn't it? It's what we can relate to and what we're familiar with. The don't teach Imperial at school, don't know when it stopped but decades ago. But ask any youngster their height or weight they will give it in Imperial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Building a bridge or sending a rocket to the moon then metric is much better. Want to know how far the next services is then 6200 metres just means nothing. You have to stop and work it out. Same as if I tell you I'm 176 centimetres tall.
I just did a quick conversion (in my head) and without checking I'm going to say a bit shy of 4 miles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca