Stuff I Would Never Sell

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2011
    Still have everything on the "Never Sell" list, and you can add an Acoustic Research FM Tuner and XA table to it
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,649
    edited June 2011
    I made sure I never responded to this --

    I would sell anything in my house if the price was right. Its just "stuff" it can be replaced.

    Now I will say I wont sell certain items because replacing them with similarly priced items would be lateral moves and what I have now is freakin sweet.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • skrol
    skrol Posts: 3,375
    edited June 2011
    Hobbyguy wrote: »
    This has nothing to do with audio...but I will never sell this.Attachment not found.

    You are talking about the kid, right?
    Stan

    Main 2ch:
    Polk LSi15 (DB840 upgrade), Parasound: P/LD-1100, HCA-1000A; Denon: DVD-2910, DRM-800A; Benchmark DAC1, Monster HTS3600-MKII, Grado SR-225i; Technics SL-J2, Parasound PPH-100.

    HT:
    Marantz SR7010, Polk: RTA11TL (RDO198-1, XO and Damping Upgrades), S4, CS250, PSW110 , Marantz UD5005, Pioneer PL-530, Panasonic TC-P42S60

    Other stuff:
    Denon: DRA-835R, AVR-888, DCD-660, DRM-700A, DRR-780; Polk: S8, Monitor 5A, 5B, TSi100, RM7, PSW10 (DXi104 upgrade); Pioneer: CT-6R; Onkyo CP-1046F; Ortofon OM5E, Marantz: PM5004, CD5004, CDR-615; Parasound C/PT-600, HCA-800ii, Sony CDP-650ESD, Technics SA 5070, B&W DM601
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2011
    Stuff I would never sell? My CTC BBQ amplifier, Dahlquist DQ10 and Polk Audio SRT loudspeakers. It's in my will to go directly to Russman, after that it goes to somone else in the original "family" which is a very small group to say the least. Everything else in my rig, at this point, doesn't matter.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • pearsall001
    pearsall001 Posts: 5,068
    edited June 2011
    The stuff I swore I'd never sell... I've sold already. So much for that theory!
    "2 Channel & 11.2 HT "Two Channel:Magnepan LRSSchiit Audio Freya S - SS preConsonance Ref 50 - Tube preParasound HALO A21+ 2 channel ampBluesound NODE 2i streameriFi NEO iDSD DAC Oppo BDP-93KEF KC62 sub Home Theater:Full blown 11.2 set up.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited June 2011
    Everything has a price...

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited June 2011
    TroyD wrote: »
    Everything has a price...

    Including your SOUL :eek: *evil laughter*
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited June 2011
    I should have kept the two different Advent 300 receivers (that George Grand mentioned) that I have owned....what was I thinking?

    Otherwise (I think) I would never sell:

    1. Dahlquist DQ-20's
    2. Dahlquist DQ-10's
    3. Forte Model 44 preamp
    4. Thorens TD-160 TT (had it since 1978)
    5. Cayin TA-30 Integrated Amp
    6. Dynaco ST-70 amp

    These are pieces that have never failed to sound good and bring musical enjoyment in any combination with other equipment.
    Norh ACA-2B tube pre, Sumo Andromeda SS amp. Magneplanar MMG speakers, M&K MX1250 Subwoofer, Pro-Ject RM1.3 Genie TT with Sumiko Pearl MM cart., Keces DAC, Cambridge Audio Azur 640c CD player
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited June 2011
    Timothy Smith wrote: »
    I should have kept the two different Advent 300 receivers (that George Grand mentioned) that I have owned....what was I thinking?

    Otherwise (I think) I would never sell:

    1. Dahlquist DQ-20's
    2. Dahlquist DQ-10's
    3. Forte Model 44 preamp
    4. Thorens TD-160 TT (had it since 1978)
    5. Cayin TA-30 Integrated Amp
    6. Dynaco ST-70 amp

    These are pieces that have never failed to sound good and bring musical enjoyment in any combination with other equipment.

    I've always wanted to hear the legendary DQ-10's. What do like about them so much that they'd make your never sell list?
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited June 2011
    Just (yesterday) back from Recapping/Power Supply Upgrade/FM Alignment by George at Akron Antique Audio . . .

    . . . my Fisher KM-60 FM (toob!) Tuner

    The tone and everything else about it is simply astounding!
    VTL ST50 w/mods / RCA6L6GC / TlfnknECC801S
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 w/mods
    TT Conrad Johnson Sonographe SG3 Oak / Sumiko LMT / Grado Woodbody Platinum / Sumiko PIB2 / The Clamp
    Musical Fidelity A1 CDPro/ Bada DD-22 Tube CDP / Conrad Johnson SD-22 CDP
    Tuners w/mods Kenwood KT5020 / Fisher KM60
    MF x-DAC V8, HAInfo NG27
    Herbies Ti-9 / Vibrapods / MIT Shotgun AC1 IEC's / MIT Shotgun 2 IC's / MIT Shotgun 2 Speaker Cables
    PS Audio Cryo / PowerPort Premium Outlets / Exact Power EP15A Conditioner
    Walnut SDA 2B TL /Oak SDA SRS II TL (Sonicaps/Mills/Cardas/Custom SDA ICs / Dynamat Extreme / Larry's Rings/ FSB-2 Spikes
    NAD SS rigs w/mods
    GIK panels
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2011
    I'd have to add my DQ10 to the list as well. Good call Timothy.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited June 2011
    Good call on the DQ-10's.....another classic.

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2011
    TroyD wrote: »
    Good call on the DQ-10's.....another classic.

    BDT

    I still have the ones I bought from you Troy....our very first deal and meeting of the great mind of Micah. I think you still have back problems from that night....or at least a serious questioning of your sexuality.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,077
    edited June 2011
    I've tried to block that whole episode....

    BDT
    I plan for the future. - F1Nut
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited June 2011
    Is this a classics list, or truly I wouldn't EVER sell them? For you guys mentioning DQ10's I am curious as to why? Sound, rarity? I like the DQ10, I've owned a few pairs. I think its a speaker everyone should hear, but it is also riddled with flaws and shortcomings. Do you keep them for the sound, the rarity or both?

    Dammit now I want to listen to some again.

    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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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2011
    It's just a classic and as imperfect as it is, it's one of my favorite loudspeakers. I'm looking forward to getting mine back up to speed with some light mods and new fabric. This speaker is also what got me interested in hi-fi again so it's a little sentimental in that respect.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited June 2011
    You in receipt of that go fast cable I sent?
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited June 2011
    Yes, thanks very much George. I've been jumping rope with it.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,727
    edited June 2011
    The only piece of equipment that i own which I'd never sell is my Polk XM tuner signed by Matthew Polk. I have lots of other gear that I love, but none that couldn't be easily replaced.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited June 2011
    I don't have much. Guess I would have to say my Monitor 10's and my Onkyo M504.
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2011
    Sometime next year, Stevie will likely wade into the tubed-preamp waters of hi-fi. I'm getting restless. I'm thinking Modwright, maybe Jumbo Shrimp? It's time to add a little soul to the system.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • Timothy Smith
    Timothy Smith Posts: 764
    edited June 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    Is this a classics list, or truly I wouldn't EVER sell them? For you guys mentioning DQ10's I am curious as to why? Sound, rarity? I like the DQ10, I've owned a few pairs. I think its a speaker everyone should hear, but it is also riddled with flaws and shortcomings. Do you keep them for the sound, the rarity or both?

    Dammit now I want to listen to some again.

    Cheers
    Russ

    It seems like the whole DQ-10 question is a bit of a mystery. When you get down to it, they just sound musical and involving. I am an Engineer so I think of myself as facts and logic based. But the DQ-10's are something else.

    The DQ-10's look like a bunch of drivers (5) cobbled together at different locations and angles on scraps of masonite (which is what they are). They sound way better that they should. I think they need a lot of power, maybe 150 or 200 wpc to really wake them up. But I sold one of my 3 sets to a friend who powered them with a 15 wpc Marantz 1030 and they still sounded very good if played at reasonable levels. They are constantly surprising. I sold another set to another friend (yes I have two friends) and he called me back and said that now all his other speakers sounded like "****" in comparison.

    I also think they look cool and unusual. You could easily argue that a 2011 Corvette is a better car by any measure or standard than a '63 split widow, but I doubt few owners of '63 split window Vettes would trade even-up for a new one. Maybe it's rarity and some nostalgia too.

    I have a set of DQ-20's that I think sound incrementally better than the 10's, but I still don't think I would sell my remaining set of 10's.
    Norh ACA-2B tube pre, Sumo Andromeda SS amp. Magneplanar MMG speakers, M&K MX1250 Subwoofer, Pro-Ject RM1.3 Genie TT with Sumiko Pearl MM cart., Keces DAC, Cambridge Audio Azur 640c CD player
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited June 2011
    That's interesting, because I prefer the 10's over the 20's.

    Like I said I like them a lot, the heart of the speaker was the dome midrange. The cone midrange was a Phillips driver right out of the Infinity Q series, decent quality for the time. The dome tweeter was, well, a dome tweeter with a phase shield, not very different from the tweeter used in the Polk Monitor 4 and some later KLH speakers. The Piezo - the least desireable speaker in the circuit. Lastly, it always bothered me that I didn't get the lease-breaking bass like you do in original Advents using the same driver.

    Somehow it all works though! I've had 2 stock pairs, and two mirror imaged pairs with the Regnar upgrades in the crossover. There was a guy here a long time ago named Dean (iirc), and he had a mirrored pair and removed the piezo and modded the circuit for a ribbon supertweeter - got outstanding reviews.

    I see you have the sub, and the crossover. I only owned the sub once, and did NOT own any DQ 10's at the time, so I never got to hear them together.

    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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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited June 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    That's interesting, because I prefer the 10's over the 20's.

    Like I said I like them a lot, the heart of the speaker was the dome midrange. The cone midrange was a Phillips driver right out of the Infinity Q series, decent quality for the time. The dome tweeter was, well, a dome tweeter with a phase shield, not very different from the tweeter used in the Polk Monitor 4 and some later KLH speakers. The Piezo - the least desireable speaker in the circuit. Lastly, it always bothered me that I didn't get the lease-breaking bass like you do in original Advents using the same driver.

    Somehow it all works though! I've had 2 stock pairs, and two mirror imaged pairs with the Regnar upgrades in the crossover. There was a guy here a long time ago named Dean (iirc), and he had a mirrored pair and removed the piezo and modded the circuit for a ribbon supertweeter - got outstanding reviews.

    I see you have the sub, and the crossover. I only owned the sub once, and did NOT own any DQ 10's at the time, so I never got to hear them together.

    Cheers,
    Russ

    I was close to owning my first set of Dahlquist speakers (DQM-9) about a year ago. The owner had them sitting in the garage for years. I asked him to hook them I so I can see that they work before I got there. The guy calls me as I'm on the way to his house and says "You shouldn't have asked me to hook them up. I listened to them and I've decided to keep them."

    I've been keeping my eye open for either the DQM-9 or DQ-10's. My only concern is how hard it is to get a hold of proper replacement parts.
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  • Evrythngmatters
    Evrythngmatters Posts: 187
    edited June 2011
    I have a few things to add:

    A/D/S L300c -never
    A/D/S L710 -never
    NAD 7600 PE -ummm, maybe
    Threshold S/300 power amp - maybe
    Everything matters. That is all.
    Money cannot buy happiness, but it sure can buy a bad **** boat to pull up along side it though.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited June 2011
    Evrythngmatters wrote: »
    I have a few things to add:

    A/D/S L300c -never
    A/D/S L710 -never
    NAD 7600 PE -ummm, maybe
    Threshold S/300 power amp - maybe

    About 2 years ago I put out feelers about selling my 7600 and 4 or 5 folks immediately said they would buy it.

    That I could sell it so easily scared me so much I sent it out to be upgraded the next day knowing with more skin in the game I'd never be tempted to sell her again.

    I'm good for another 20 years and honestly think it will still sound great and be driving SDA's in 2031!
    VTL ST50 w/mods / RCA6L6GC / TlfnknECC801S
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 w/mods
    TT Conrad Johnson Sonographe SG3 Oak / Sumiko LMT / Grado Woodbody Platinum / Sumiko PIB2 / The Clamp
    Musical Fidelity A1 CDPro/ Bada DD-22 Tube CDP / Conrad Johnson SD-22 CDP
    Tuners w/mods Kenwood KT5020 / Fisher KM60
    MF x-DAC V8, HAInfo NG27
    Herbies Ti-9 / Vibrapods / MIT Shotgun AC1 IEC's / MIT Shotgun 2 IC's / MIT Shotgun 2 Speaker Cables
    PS Audio Cryo / PowerPort Premium Outlets / Exact Power EP15A Conditioner
    Walnut SDA 2B TL /Oak SDA SRS II TL (Sonicaps/Mills/Cardas/Custom SDA ICs / Dynamat Extreme / Larry's Rings/ FSB-2 Spikes
    NAD SS rigs w/mods
    GIK panels
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  • SDA1C
    SDA1C Posts: 2,072
    edited June 2011
    I'm on my way up with audio so I guess I wouldn't sell any of it without a better replacement :)

    Having said that...I don't foresee selling my 64 Pan anytime soon.
    Too much **** to list....
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  • quadzilla
    quadzilla Posts: 1,543
    edited June 2011
    I don't know that there's anything that I'd never sell. It all depends on how much I want whatever new thing I've found and how much the guy wanting to buy the old thing offers. There are some things I'm pretty unlikely to sell though....

    Modified Empire TT.
    Aural Thrills phono stage.
    CRS+ modified to 4.1TL
    Modded LS50s
    Turntable: Empire 208
    Arm: Rega 300
    Cart: Shelter 501 III
    Phono Pre: Aural Thrills
    Digital: Pioneer DV-79ai
    Pre: Conrad Johnson ET3 SE
    Amp: Conrad Johnson Evolution 2000
    Cables: Cardas Neutral Reference
    Speakers: SDA 2.3TL, heavily modified
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited June 2011
    Which Empire tt, if I might ask? They were all nice, but some were extra-nice...
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  • quadzilla
    quadzilla Posts: 1,543
    edited June 2011
    This one: http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=92001&highlight=empire

    It's a 298 with a modded Rega 250 and Shelter 501.
    Turntable: Empire 208
    Arm: Rega 300
    Cart: Shelter 501 III
    Phono Pre: Aural Thrills
    Digital: Pioneer DV-79ai
    Pre: Conrad Johnson ET3 SE
    Amp: Conrad Johnson Evolution 2000
    Cables: Cardas Neutral Reference
    Speakers: SDA 2.3TL, heavily modified
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