Bargains on ebay?

[Xapito]

"bit silly"....

ffs, 2300 odd quids.

[Yomanze]

Yeah it is ridiculous, £1900 gets you a brand new pair of Amphion Argon3s that'll just stomp over these...

[The Barbarian]

The whole selected vintage Equipment pricing is ridiculous. I suppose it's a smoke screen for the guy that loom down their noses to buy such equipment & get away without admitting it's old tat.. Money can work in many different ways

Example: You don't look very cool with a Quad '303' cos they can be had for around £120-150. Now if you had a pair of Quad 'II' which can be had for £600-£1,000.00, you look like someone better even though they don't sound very good imho however the pricing & because cos they have hip valves you rather more of a propar enthusiast arnt you? .. This attitude gets right up my back.

[nat8808]

These are getting a little silly!! Sold from Ireland, posted from Poland!!! Isn't the guy that makes new cabinets for these in Poland??

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chartwell-...item27e14f9128

"Pair matched by listening" hahaha! Not even an original matched pair.

The price is fine if that's what people want to pay.

[nat8808]

The whole selected vintage Equipment pricing is ridiculous. I suppose it's a smoke screen for the guy that loom down their noses to buy such equipment & get away without admitting it's old tat.. Money can work in many different ways

Example: You don't look very cool with a Quad '303' cos they can be had for around £120-150. Now if you had a pair of Quad 'II' which can be had for £600-£1,000.00, you look like someone better even though they don't sound very good imho however the pricing & because cos they have hip valves you rather more of a propar enthusiast arnt you? .. This attitude gets right up my back.

Not sure though how much of that attitude exists..

I see it more as: "This bit of kit is going for high value, therefore it must sound good because I can't work these things out for myself!"

I've got some expensive kit but instead of setting it all up, I keep listening to my £80 ebay purchase integrated, some 90's job that no-one's heard of.

[istari_knight]

Yerp... 99% of people are sheep simple as that [myself included ]

my £80 ebay purchase integrated, some 90's job that no-one's heard of.

Give us a clue !

[nat8808]

Yerp... 99% of people are sheep simple as that [myself included ]



Give us a clue !

I don't necessarily distance myself from that either.. fully caught up, at least in curiosity even if I can't afford all the expensive stuff I'd like.

My integrated is a Higher Fidelity amp Model 2K3, part of their Century Series (so it says on the front). Apparently Van den Hul had their top of the range monoblocks as his reference system once upon a time. Bought it on a vague recollection of a photo from an old magazine plus it had distortion on one channel which I correctly guessed to be power down on one voltage rail of an Class AB amp - was just a fuse. Sounds very good!

[istari_knight]

Well you're right, I've never heard of it ! ... Nor has Google - Thats a first

[istari_knight]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3213750684...84.m1423.l2649

I've tried all the usual naughty tricks of offering cash outside of eBay but he's having none of it so one to watch maybe ?

[dantheman91]

The whole selected vintage Equipment pricing is ridiculous. I suppose it's a smoke screen for the guy that loom down their noses to buy such equipment & get away without admitting it's old tat.. Money can work in many different ways

Example: You don't look very cool with a Quad '303' cos they can be had for around £120-150. Now if you had a pair of Quad 'II' which can be had for £600-£1,000.00, you look like someone better even though they don't sound very good imho however the pricing & because cos they have hip valves you rather more of a propar enthusiast arnt you? .. This attitude gets right up my back.

I know i would rather have the 303 because of the heritage and the 1 thing it sounds good to these ears nothing more nothing less.. Even love the 33 pre even thought people give it some slick i don't really care its a PERIOD classic to me and thats why i can never bring myself to part with it....if you ask many experts the did test with the quad II and the 303 and they were difficult to compare as they both sound as good as each other.