Worst regrets selling a piece of equipment!

Subtraction said:
go ahead and laugh but I really miss this

as posted two years ago in the tuner thread

I just picked up this Realistic TM-102
it is really small
hooked two wires to it for an antenna
AM and FM wall to wall
nice and clear
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I got it and a book for $25
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Too bad . I have the tm 150 and it a better tuner than any of my Pioneers have.

The two units I regret selling were a Pioneer SA9500 ll and the TU 9500 tuner. They were pristine , I found them at a yard sale for next to nothing. Took them home , used them briefly and sold them . I should have had the amp restored because I don’t use the tuners in any of my Pioneers and that integrated would have suited me fine. And the money I would have saved chasing other units … sheesh.
 
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Pioneer sx1250. Had no issues except a little noisy volume control that if you left it alone was fine. Tried to clean without taking apart, but no go. should have kept it as-is.
 
Sharpstik said:
I have the 2285 ( non b) . I found it for 10.00 and gave it to a fellow AK’er to restore. I don’t use it . But I’m afraid to sell it because I’ll never have another. Why were you impressed ?
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It's the last of the dual heat sink with central tuner layout. It sounds better than any B and 1977 and later Marantz receivers of which I have owned nearly all of them including 2252B, 2285B, 2330B, 2385, 2500, and 2600. If I had a 2330 (non-B), that would have been an even greater regret to sell. Never could land a 2330 but I have heard one.
 
Sgt Shultz said:
It's hard to pick any one item, my 40yr collection was sold off when my bride passed, even the Mac gear didn't seem important at the time.

So aside from that the only time I ever sold any gear was my Kenwood KA-7100, matching tuna and AR12's purchased new in 78, sold in 91 when I went separates.

Told the bride I would fund part of the new equipment by selling the current setup, this was the reason for the purchase of the Kenwood KA-7300, matching tuna and AR58s 5yrs ago.
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I am so sorry to hear this. :(:hug:
 
luxmaster said:
I inherited a Technics RS 1500 and traded it for a Rega RP1 turntable. I did this 8 years ago and I still feel the pain. What was I thinking?
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As Bill Clinton once said :

"I feel your pain"

My dream is to acquire one of these units, preferably the 1800 or the 1506.
 
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As a keyboard player, my biggest regrets are selling the following, for peanuts, when the digital revolution hit the market...

MicroMoog
PolyMoog
Korg PolySix

Especially the MicroMoog. Best keyboard for bass I've ever had....and it really expanded my ability to play in two keys at once 'cause I never knew when the oscillator was going to drift off by a half step.... ;)

Audio-wise, I still very much miss, mostly for sentimental reasons, a Dual turntable (don't remember the exact model...made in the late 60s/early 70s)my father passed down to me when he moved on to a different 'table. I "loaned" it to a friend back in the 90s and never saw it again.
 
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Not something I sold, even worse. I had a Fisher 400-CX-2 that was originally my Dad's. This was decades ago and I was in college and moving a lot and I just gave it to a roommate or someone. I bought another 400-cx-2 on the bay about 10 years ago so I kind of got it back, but man, that was stupid.
 
I sold off a pair of Klipsch KG 4.2 speakers. They were too big for the space and the sound was too forward. Kinda wished I'd kept them now and gotten rid of several pair of small speakers instead.
 
ADS 1590s. What the hell was I thinking!? I regretted it before the guy even got home. Had already contacted him letting him know Ill buy them back anytime.
 
The sale didn’t happen, BUT, I had the transaction made (money was transferred into my account) on my restored/modded Sansui AU999. I did a “final” listen to it before I pulled it from the rack, and had to cancel the deal. I felt so bad for the guy, I really did, but I didn’t want to make a mistake I would for sure regret. So not quite sellers regret/remorse, but close enough that I won’t forget it, or make that mistake again!
 
I'll always kick myself for selling an old Akai deck. It was R2R, cassette, and 8-track, all in one unit. WITH amp and speakers, all built into one unit that was the size of your garden variety Akai R2R. (X1000, I think.) This was before the internet. I think I got $20 for it. Years later, post-internet, I found the original owners manual. It sold for more than the whole actual unit did.

I'll kick myself forever for that one.

Edit: It was an X2000 (S or SD)
 
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Natasha Bell said:
For me, God I feel so stupid for doing so... I sold a Pioneer Elite PD54 stable-platter CD player in absolutely mint condition last year for $185!! :(:confused::oops: I realized afterwards it was a stupid, stupid decision. What I should have done is purchase a stand-alone DAC and use the Pioneer as a drive. Yes folks, Tasha is definitely an idiot (probably it is all the peroxide she uses to bleach her hair blond). :eek:
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Let's see: McIntosh MAC4100 (twice!), Klipsch La Scala's, Focal Aria 936. On the other hand, if I had unlimited funds I wouldn't have room for everything.
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"--Steven Wright
 
Theil CS2s. This was a speaker that I enjoyed a lot. I have upgraded many times since, but still miss the evenness and punch these gave recordings.
 
MuseChaser said:
As a keyboard player, my biggest regrets are selling the following, for peanuts, when the digital revolution hit the market...

MicroMoog
PolyMoog
Korg PolySix

Especially the MicroMoog. Best keyboard for bass I've ever had....and it really expanded my ability to play in two keys at once 'cause I never knew when the oscillator was going to drift off by a half step.... ;)
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I'm a drummer, not a keyboard player, but I've been around that stuff to know a little about it. I love those old records with analog synths and even though the emulations of natural instruments that digital can do, I don't hear them having the same kinds of really rich, layered truly "synth" sounds that the old analog keyboards seemed to have. The first band that I ever played in back as a teenager in the 80s was pretty shaky musically, but our keyboard player, thanks to an inheritance had the money for fancy gear and I remember the Prophet 5 thing that he had was very often drifting in pitch... probably because we had too much stuff plugged in and it was causing the house current to drop a bit. That thing did have some amazing sounds, but it was really a drag when it suddenly went all out of key in the middle of a song. Just recently I was watching something on YouTube, I believe with Jan Hammer (maybe a performance with Jeff Beck?) and I noticed that they keyboard seemed to be a bit out of key in the beginning of the tune. It seemed like Hammer at that point dropped out for a moment, made an adjustment and then started playing again. It seems like he may have made a pitch adjustment due to the analog synth going out of key...
 
I regret a few things I got rid of, back in the day when vintage audio gear was cheap and plentiful:

a Sansui G-5500 receiver: not the best or most powerful receiver in the world, but my first really nice vintage receiver and just a beautiful piece;
A Pioneer PL-570 turntable, mint condition, I just wanted to try something different;
pair of EPI-M201 speakers, just something very special about the sound.

I'm sure there's more if I thought about it. A lot of midlevel gear has passed through my hands over the years.
 
Natasha Bell said:
There is nothing at all wrong or "worthless" about a BFA. Your opportunities, however, are basically limited to teaching art. For an artist, it is a great choice actually. I have to admit, I had to take "art appreciation" and it drove me up a wall. It is probably my most hated course I ever took.
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Those degrees are great if one is allergic to money.
 
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