It's going to take a little while before this thread really starts to build up steam but it has to start somewhere and so that somewhere is here.
I've always wanted a CX-1 and MX-1 combo since I first saw them 20 years ago but never figured that I'd be able to afford them.
Things change and recently it turned out that I could turn my thoughts to buying them. I started with the CX-1 last fall...
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/yamaha-cx-1-thread.790203/
...and then I added an M-70 to the CX-1...
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/yamaha-m-70-thread.805670/
...and then almost 5 weeks ago, on the day that the M-70 first roared to life I found my MX-1.
I paid the princely sum of €500 for it. A good bit of change but this one is going to be the last one for me I think. Normally I don't do ebay buys without using pay-pal unless it's something real cheap but in this case the seller has almost 2500 actions with 100% rating so I took the chance. As a gesture of being co-operatively nice I doubled his shipping price and asked him to please be careful with packaging.
He assured me of good packaging, said that it would ship on the next day, and apparently then went on vacation without making sure that it shipped. Boiling down the last 4 weeks one could say that some of my communications were also boiling. But the bonehead finally got it shipped last Friday and it finally arrived today.
And I have to admit that he did a good job of packaging.
The huge box had massive blocks of styrofoam around the amp, and then 10 layers of thin bubble wrap. It actually took me 40+ minutes and 2 cut fingers to get the amp fully unpacked.
Cheers,
James
edit 10 Jan 2022: I have posted a zipfile on post# 99 with a spreadsheet of my recap parts.
I've always wanted a CX-1 and MX-1 combo since I first saw them 20 years ago but never figured that I'd be able to afford them.
Things change and recently it turned out that I could turn my thoughts to buying them. I started with the CX-1 last fall...
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/yamaha-cx-1-thread.790203/
...and then I added an M-70 to the CX-1...
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/yamaha-m-70-thread.805670/
...and then almost 5 weeks ago, on the day that the M-70 first roared to life I found my MX-1.
I paid the princely sum of €500 for it. A good bit of change but this one is going to be the last one for me I think. Normally I don't do ebay buys without using pay-pal unless it's something real cheap but in this case the seller has almost 2500 actions with 100% rating so I took the chance. As a gesture of being co-operatively nice I doubled his shipping price and asked him to please be careful with packaging.
He assured me of good packaging, said that it would ship on the next day, and apparently then went on vacation without making sure that it shipped. Boiling down the last 4 weeks one could say that some of my communications were also boiling. But the bonehead finally got it shipped last Friday and it finally arrived today.
And I have to admit that he did a good job of packaging.
The huge box had massive blocks of styrofoam around the amp, and then 10 layers of thin bubble wrap. It actually took me 40+ minutes and 2 cut fingers to get the amp fully unpacked.
Cheers,
James
edit 10 Jan 2022: I have posted a zipfile on post# 99 with a spreadsheet of my recap parts.
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