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!)
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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!)
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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.Originally Posted by Alex_UK
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According to the listing, the saving would actually be nearly £33,000Yes, that's a saving of £10,600! You could almost buy a complete system with that.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.
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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.
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Ah, I was going off the rrp that the seller mentioned in his description... Not such a bargain after allI think I'll pass. So 10% is the guide is it? I think my spend amounts to only about 2%
But I don't see any cable upgrades on the horizon, I have other priorities these days, like keeping the lights on
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Speakers: KEF Reference 3, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
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Echo Dot, Arcam A75 integrated, Monitor Audio R852 MD speakers
A/V:
LG OLED65 G56LS, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL T9i sub.
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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.
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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.
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Interesting Tannoy 15'' HPDs up in Geordie-land:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/357871671692?
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That is very, very cool!
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Interesting in that the cones have been painted I wonder what that does to the sound.
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