Tax time toys?

madmax
madmax Posts: 12,434
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Tax time can be tough. I normally get a few grand back but this year I was sure I would OWE even more than that. Not being one to let that bother me I went ahead and saved that much over the year and earmarked it for taxes. Well, being the ignorant tax person I am I found out today I was wrong. I actually got more back than normal!!!

So,
To start off I will be getting 8 of these for my Manley monoblocks!
http://www.thetubestore.com/shuguangel34b.html

After that I plan on re-tubing my Modulus preamp with four new 6922's. I would like to find NOS Bugle Boys.

The rest? I'm going to try something different. I think they call it "saving". :confused:

Anyone else plan on getting something cool this year?

madmax
Vinyl, the final frontier...

Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited March 2004
    I haven't seen a refund in a quite a while.

    I'd like to get a pair of JM Lab Chorus series towers in the near future. I've got a pair of 18" stereo subs, and the 15" folded horn sub projects to finish too.

    I'll probably be more in sell mode, than buy mode for a while.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited March 2004
    Not audio-related, but with the money my dad gets back, we're gonna get his truck worked over. It's a '78 Chevy 3/4 ton with a full box and a trailering package (the combination of 3/4ton and trailering makes it ride hard as a rock...). Has a 350CI V-8 in it, which I hope to get the heads worked over, some exhaust work done, and get the carby tuned up better. Body needs a little assistance as well, and it currently is in desperate need of 4 new tires (2 have a slow leak).

    With the money I get back, I think I'm going to put it away towards the new car that I'm soon going to need. Right now I'm limping along on 2 vehicles that are over 155k miles. When one breaks, I drive the other 'til I can get it fixed :) . Nice to have that fallback option. Not so nice to have a yard full of cars :rolleyes:

    At least none of them are on blocks....

    nadams
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited March 2004
    I'm planning to get a violin and a tuner for it. I'll be playing my classical favorites all day and night:).

    Maurice
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  • pjdami
    pjdami Posts: 1,894
    edited March 2004
    Russ,

    did you get AA news email today? they have a special on the Chorus right now for $399 / pair. they look nice and if they sound 70 percent as good as the $2100 / pair Electra 905s I heard a couple of months ago then they are a steal.

    http://www.audioadvisor.com/store/productdetail.asp?sku=JML710CAL

    I'm getting VERY nice refund back this year. Thanks to the house mortgage interest being tax deductible. A few more audio toys to complete a third rig in the house.
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by nadams
    It's a '78 Chevy 3/4 ton with a full box and a trailering package (the combination of 3/4ton and trailering makes it ride hard as a rock...). Has a 350CI V-8 in it,
    nadams

    I had this very same truck when I was a teen. It was 3/4 ton with a 1 ton suspension. The damn thing would break your back if you hit a pot hole! I had the roll bar, brush guards and the kc lights that made it look like a space ship at night. Fun times!

    Put that fine piece of machinery back together!

    HBomb
    ***WAREMTAE***
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited March 2004
    Well as you guys already know.
    1. SVS pb2 sub
    2. new dvd-A / dvd player
    3. new digital camera Fuji s5000

    and the wife got a new bedroom, painted.. cherry head and foot king size, accesories.. the works.. what she wanted.

    lots of little stuff,

    also got a few months back to repaint and restore, A 1938-42 Admiral refrigerator in mint inside shape and works.. outside needs paint.. this is in my florida room, coca cola/ 70's room and 2 channel rig room...
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited March 2004
    :mad:

    I ended up owing about $50.

    :mad:
    Never Forget
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,783
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    I haven't seen a refund in a quite a while.


    I hear you. WTF is a refund? I had to pay an addn'l $4K last year:mad:
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited March 2004
    every year we get ours early so its always gone early ususaly by mid Feb. Got the TXSR701, Monitor 7's , HK AVR20 and signal Bi-Wire for the fronts. Only had to dish out 100.00 of the return towards the SVS since i sold the polks. The wife got clothes, clothes more clothes and the trip to TN for the weekend. Now its back to being BROKE.:( Gotta wait till next year for more toys
    Life without music would♭
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited March 2004
    In our case tax time means opening the check book. But then I've never been in favor of giving Uncle an interest free loan.
    Rick
    HT+ Sunfire TG IV, Dual CG Sig II's, CinePro 1K2, Oppo 981, Audio Technica PL120, Polk SRT's & F/X1000's, Samsung 71" DLP
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited March 2004
    Ed Zachry.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,783
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by PolkWannabie
    In our case tax time means opening the check book. But then I've never been in favor of giving Uncle an interest free loan.

    Still a painful check to write...............:(
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2004
    I'd much rather get some back then owe. Even if Uncle Sam gets a few bucks off me in the process. Makes life that much less painful this time of year.


    Peace Out~:D
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited March 2004
    That's the thing Ron, you'd have MORE CASH, if YOU took it of your check, put it in a Mutual Fund and made 12% on it all year, vs your employer taking it out and you make NOTHING.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    That's the thing Ron, you'd have MORE CASH, if YOU took it of your check, put it in a Mutual Fund and made 12% on it all year, vs your employer taking it out and you make NOTHING.

    The key is just avoiding the fees associated.... Greedy buggers they are.... :mad:
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2004
    I know and I already do that.

    Our budget is all broken out with 15% going into savings, plus 401k deductions, plus a school fund for our daughter...etc.

    This was an off year for us to get a large sum back. Most years I end up right at about 1k being returned. Brake that out over a years time and Uncle Sam is getting a few bucks off me, not much at all and not worth having to owe that at tax time.


    Peace Out~:D
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by ken brydson
    Still a painful check to write...............:(
    Not really. I like it much better when Uncle gives me an interest free loan that I can do with what I want for a year+. The difference for us between doing it one way and the other has at the bottom line meant new toys for free.
    Rick
    HT+ Sunfire TG IV, Dual CG Sig II's, CinePro 1K2, Oppo 981, Audio Technica PL120, Polk SRT's & F/X1000's, Samsung 71" DLP
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by PolkWannabie
    In our case tax time means opening the check book. But then I've never been in favor of giving Uncle an interest free loan.

    I figure Uncle Sam could use the help. Besides, it's better to have it and get no interest than to owe it but not have it.
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • Grimster74
    Grimster74 Posts: 2,576
    edited March 2004
    Tax return this year bought me a Denon AVR-3805 and a Denon DVD-2900 and still plenty left over. On top of the tax return, the wife and I just took out a home equity loan to finish some things around the house. There is all knida money moving around in my house I just can't touch it until the wife is done with my hunny-do list.:D
    Money Talks, Mine says Goodbye Rob!!!!
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,779
    edited March 2004
    I dont have taxes :D

    But, it seems everyone gets good toys with these.....taxes...

    Can't be all that bad :mad:

    My tax return has bought me nothing.....

    My addiction this year has bought me.....

    Adcom GFA-545 2 Channel Amp
    Denon DCM-280 CD Player
    Sansui T-9 Tuner
    NAD 917 Preamp

    That bout it, REALLY close to a SVS, bout another month.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,783
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by Vr3MxStyler2k3
    I dont have taxes :D

    But, it seems everyone gets good toys with these.....taxes

    Enjoy it while you can

    Hey, post # 500. I'm a Polkazoid. Woo hoo. Probably only 1/2 of them or so were useless :D
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited March 2004
    WTF is a tax refund? You mean the greedy bastads give some BACK???

    Jesus H. I'm gonna frickin KILL somebody...:D
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited March 2004
    Originally posted by HBombToo
    I had this very same truck when I was a teen. It was 3/4 ton with a 1 ton suspension. The damn thing would break your back if you hit a pot hole! I had the roll bar, brush guards and the kc lights that made it look like a space ship at night. Fun times!

    Put that fine piece of machinery back together!

    HBomb

    It is quite a truck. We've had 1.5 tons of coal in the bed without too much trouble, towed a double horsetrailer (pretty small compared to some out there), and routinely load up 50 bales of hay (all at the same time!!! *BS*). It's sitting right now because it needs to be inspected, and in order for that to happen, we need some big $$.

    We just rebuilt the carby ourselves, and surprisingly it runs pretty good. Just need to fine-tune the needles once it gets a little warmer around here.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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