What are you Listening To Right Now? - and more

[MAC TED]

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Okayyy! Enough Toni Basil. Time to get serious now. Have to play grade these and decide which to keep. Same with Deja Vu. Giving a friend some records that just got into the hobby.

You're a good man, Xray Brown.

 

[Sgt.Pepsi]

You're looking at $1769.00 today. I didn't include the sales tax. I'm from Delaware, we don't need no stinkin' sales tax!
(so cool that you have the receipt)

Gah!!! Lol!!! I wish there was no sales tax.

 

[jim steil]

I watched the value on Marantz units steadily rise over the last decade. They are rock solid units. I still use mine to this day. I wasn’t even old enough to drink when I bought this.

just says how smart you were way back then>>>>

 

[MAC TED]

because he is so close i almost want to go for a listen. which would just cause problems with my obsession to have it all. they are a good looking speaker. he is also selling all his audio that he used on with these. a sweet set up ... like i said before, where do you stop?

I believe, Jim, that if you acquired those speakers, you could stop shopping for speakers.

 

[jim steil]

Kenny Wayne Shepherd ( Commit A Crime ) all of it-----------

 

[Sgt.Pepsi]

You're a good man, Xray Brown.

Thanks! If folks lived closer they would have some gear I don’t want anymore.

 

[jim steil]

I believe, Jim, that if you acquired those speakers, you could stop shopping for speakers.

one would think that, I'm sick

 

[Leebob]

Of the top 10 selling albums the only 2 I like and own are ZEPPELIN IV and Appetite for Destruction.

Of the top 10 on that "list of best-selling" I own 5. Eagles Greatest Hits,Led Zep IV, AC\DC Back to Black, Shania Twain-Come On Over, and the only one on vinyl-Boston's Boston. Funny thing none were bought new so I did nothing to help them get on the "Best Selling List"( I take that back I do remember buying Boston new on cassette which I no longer have)

 

[FOH Engineer]

@Delmarva this is what the owner of my Marantz paid when he bought it used in 17th of December 1976. I’ve been it’s owner since 2005. Your post just reminded me.

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The mid 70's were awful times financially, and that was probably an eye popping discretionary purchase at the time. Cool to have keep the receipt.

 

[Sgt.Pepsi]

just says how smart you were way back then>>>>

Well or how dumb I am too. I also owned a Thorens TD124MKII with Shure SME 3009 Series 2. I sold it. Those units have nearly tripled in value in the last decade. But you move on you know. It went to someone in California years ago.

 

[Sgt.Pepsi]

The mid 70's were awful times financially, and that was probably an eye popping discretionary purchase at the time. Cool to have keep the receipt.

For sure that receipt is still shocking. I just feel very lucky to have some of the gear I do.

 

[jim steil]

i know in my heart, i cannot keep it all. and my son shows no interest in loud music. hell, in good music also. so some will have to go. But not today

 

[MAC TED]

one would think that, I'm sick

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Then you're on the right thread, because we are all sick, but in a good way.

 

[jim steil]

got that right.....

 

[Ronald1973]

I just got done recording the whole album and uploaded one of my favorite songs. I didn't even realize I had it on an LP-I thought all I had was a scratchy 45rpm that needs to be tossed. Enjoy some classic country from Whisperin' Bill!

 

[JRhoBurton]

The Akai quad deck needs some activity also. It gets No Secrets by Carly Simon. Great music here, and this is also one of the all time great cover pics.

 

[FOH Engineer]

I watched the value on Marantz units steadily rise over the last decade. They are rock solid units. I still use mine to this day. I wasn’t even old enough to drink when I bought this.

Agree on all counts. Many many years of enjoyment. At $399.00 over the course of 41 years that's 37 cents a day and reducing every day. That's a good bargain for a wonderful lifetime of quality use. Not to mention it's still worth $399.00 plus plus.... for spot cash so actually in a roundabout way it could be a 41 year rental for free.

 

[djwhy60]

i know in my heart, i cannot keep it all. and my son shows no interest in loud music. hell, in good music also. so some will have to go. But not today

Wife and I were talking about this the other day. There is no one I know who would want all my stuff. So I am making a list with prices so she can liquidate it when I am no longer using it!

 

[Delmarva]

Frank this reminds of the guys that walk up to me on sound jobs and ask me why I use this or that, with a faint inflection that they might own something more expensive, while not understanding that I have lots of work because I know how to use what I have. The woods are full of guys with tons of high end sound gear that can't get a gig to save their ass, because the gear is a show off the dollars spent dog and pony show they put on , and not used like an expressive artists tool.

Jason, you nailed it.
All this guy could talk about was the $133.00 that I paid and that it followed the same failed design of every other manufacturer since the early '90's, blah, blah, blah. He clearly never read the reviews that I posted that spoke of the Sherwood's replication of '70's era simplicity and it's use of discrete circuits rather than integrated circuits. He was going on about it's resale value being nothing and even went so far as to insult my Pioneer SX-650 and Sony STR-AV900 as being evidence of why I thought so much of the Sherwood. My only goal was to get him to leave the thread and allow it to be a discussion of a nice, 2 channel budget friendly powerhouse receiver, which I feel it is.

As I believe Mac Ted so eloquently said the other night. "If at the end of your listening session you wish you could keep listening, then your gear is good gear."

 

[Sgt.Pepsi]

i know in my heart, i cannot keep it all. and my son shows no interest in loud music. hell, in good music also. so some will have to go. But not today

Just remember Jim and my fellow AKers there are a few guys and gals like myself to carry it on. Both in the memory of audio and music legends.