Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

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Originally Posted by montesquieu

Yes because you can always believe what you read on the internet ...

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Is that so?

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Originally Posted by mikmas

https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_li.../sa-9100.shtml

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The SA-9100 is Pioneer's finest professional stereo integrated amplifier.

It features an all stage direct coupled pure complementary OCL circuit, resulting in a super wide bandwidth and distortion free power, a unique 3 stage direct coupled equaliser, twin stepped tone controls for making critical bass and treble adjustments and level set volume and loudness contour controls to adjust listening preference.

Other features include 2-way tape duplicating and monitoring, 2 position high and low filters and 3 pairs of speaker output terminals.

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So what you are saying is that it has the fairly typical over-complicated (generally feedback based) tone and volume controls of a high end amp of the period, an approach that is generally given as one of the main reasons why kit of the era usually sounds a bit rubbish?

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Originally Posted by mikmas

Is that so?

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Well you seem to think so. Somewhere it has a ‘stellar’ reputation you said. Case closed presumably.

20,000mHz top end extension on these speakers. Must be new technology!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JBL-MRV30...53.m1438.l2649

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Originally Posted by montesquieu

Well you seem to think so. Somewhere it has a ‘stellar’ reputation you said. Case closed presumably.

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You really don't get it do you. What I (or you) think of the amp on sale is irrelevant. What potential buyers might think is.
Simples.... ;)

i had one of the near top pioneer models. it was a very decent amp, and the phono stage was decent too. also looks the dogs danglies

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

20,000mHz top end extension on these speakers. Must be new technology!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JBL-MRV30...53.m1438.l2649

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Ah, the little known Batspeaker

Think I'd rather have the £50 in my hand via Gumtree than ALL the hassle eBay can lead to if having to post an amp and HOPE that it arrives undamaged, then there's the unscrupulous buyers who claim faults etc.

Once repairs are paid for, packaging sourced fees paid, hardly worth the hassle :scratch:

No Alex, not MHz but mHz, so they go up to 20Hz.

I don't think my hearing would go that low.

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Originally Posted by mikeyb

Think I'd rather have the £50 in my hand via Gumtree than ALL the hassle eBay can lead to if having to post an amp and HOPE that it arrives undamaged, then there's the unscrupulous buyers who claim faults etc.

Once repairs are paid for, packaging sourced fees paid, hardly worth the hassle :scratch:

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Precisely ... doubly so if the seller knows absolutely nothing about hifi.

Let one of the many bottom feeders take the pain of getting it repaired and finding a mug to offload it to at an inflated price.
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No favour was done here putting expectations of £££ in the woman's head.