The Mike New Technics Bearing

[RochaCullen]

Hi Mike,

What is the price of a new bearing including delivery?

Regards,

Nathan

[Audio Al]

it would seem that the Bearing party is over.

NOooooooo

[Mike_New]

Hi Nathan,
The offer is $525.00 for the first 20 people who place a deposit of $260.00 after that the price is $625.00 as it has been for the last 3 years, I have absorbed price increases in my toolmakers charges so far. But the main problem is that people do not want to wait six months before getting their bearing.

[MartinT]

Mike, is it not worth manufacturing 20 pieces at the 15 unit point and keeping 5 in stock? Surely they will sell over time?

[kininigin]

NOooooooo

Can i just add,NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I was afraid this may happen when i sold my bearing! Leaves me with a bit of a dielema.What do i do with my technics now? Having heard what the bearing can do,i'm not sure it will be easy to live without it.Guess i'll have to be happy with what i have.

Is this a definite game over job,or is there any other options? How many more deposits do you need to carry on the next batch?

[RobbieGong]

Can i just add,NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I was afraid this may happen when i sold my bearing! Leaves me with a bit of a dielema.What do i do with my technics now? Having heard what the bearing can do,i'm not sure it will be easy to live without it.Guess i'll have to be happy with what i have.

Is this a definite game over job,or is there any other options? How many more deposits do you need to carry on the next batch?

Hi Darren, Why did you sell your bearing in the first place ? I know these things can happen when funds are tight.... I've always assumed when a Techie owners Mike New bearing has come up for sale here it's because he's decided to abort the Techie journey. To answer your question - In my experience the Techie can be lived with without the bearing but once you've gone there you wouldn't want to go back. In conjunction with an external power supply, upgrade arm and platter it is a must, seriously ! There are other much cheaper options but they tend to be built around the very light and built to a price point stock bearing. If the stock bearing is a mini then the Mike New is a battle ship in comparison, believe you me and sonically helps push the Techie to sounding more 'right; big time !

[kininigin]

Hi Darren, Why did you sell your bearing in the first place ? I know these things can happen when funds are tight.... I've always assumed when a Techie owners Mike New bearing has come up for sale here it's because he's decided to abort the Techie journey. To answer your question - In my experience the Techie can be lived with without the bearing but once you've gone there you wouldn't want to go back. In conjunction with an external power supply, upgrade arm and platter it is a must, seriously ! There are other much cheaper options but they tend to be built around the very light and built to a price point stock bearing. If the stock bearing is a mini then the Mike New is a battle ship in comparison, believe you me and sonically helps push the Techie to sounding more 'right; big time !

Alright Robbie,

Well i have just spent the last 6 months in france snowboarding and started to run out of money towards the end,so had to sell a couple of items to see me through The decision to sell wasn't taken lightly and i held off as long as possible,but things conspired against me! I have a snowboarding passion,as well as a hifi/music passion and unfortunately for me i don't earn enough to do both comfortably.

When i had the bearing,all that was left was a platter to get and i would of been pretty much done for the time being.Work had dried up for a few weeks for me before i went away,so i had to sell my Croft pre,MNB,Timestep psu and a pair of Mark Grant G2000hd's.I could live with selling everything as i knew i could still get the items as and when i could afford them,but knew that the MNB wouldn't be so easy!! I'm aware of the cheaper options but have no experience of them,so cannot really comment on their ability's.

I may be off to france again at the end of the year anyway,so wouldn't be wanting to get my previous items back just atm,but if the chance to get another MNB came up,i would definitely go for it,even if it meant selling something else to get it.Although i don't have much left to sell

To be fair,i was without a good quality system while i was away and since i have been back,have been enjoying listening to what's left of my system! (digital listening only) I'm hoping when i get my deck up and running again,i have a similiar experience!

[Mike_New]

Hi Folks,
To answer Martins question:
"Mike, is it not worth manufacturing 20 pieces at the 15 unit point and keeping 5 in stock? Surely they will sell over time? "
The simplke reason is that the precision of the machining is such that my toolmakers will only produce a minimum of 25 off and I have to pay the monies up front. If I could order a batch of 50-100 I could sell for about $450.00 but I need not expalin what this would cost as a commercial investment. I was hoping that there would still be 20 folks out there that would want one, somewhere in the world!
Then I would only be exposed to having 5 in stock to supply for future orders. However the steam seems to has gone out of the SL1200 so I cannot take the risk of not getting at least most of my costs back.

[MartinT]

That's disappointing but completely understandable, Mike.

[MikeMusic]

Mike

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