[BC] Re: Hi-Fi geek' paradise

[Fee Lee]

My friend didn't even cleaned up the amp when he sold it.  He took a bunch
of photos of it posted it on Ebay.  He told everyone that it wasn't tested,
so he didn't know if it worked or not and sold as is and the bids started at
10 bucks and shot up from there.

I know what you mean by the outlandish claims about wire.  The guy from
Belden spoke at our SBE chapter and someone asked him about some of these
"super cables" people were selling.  It turns out that Belden manufactures
some of these cables for the industry.  He says there is a wire that they
make for a company that wanted little arrows printed on the insulation
pointing the way the wire was pulled from the copper billet.  Something
about the electrons flowing easier in that direction.  Yeah like like audio
is going to flow in one direction.  He says hey, we just build it to their
specs, we don't make any claims about the performance.  I like the ac cords
that are sold to improve power sent to the equipment.  Pluging a $50 ac cord
into the dirty power network is going to make all nice and clean.
                                    Fee Lee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wfifeng at aol.com" <reader at oldradio.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [BC] Re: Hi-Fi geek' paradise


>
>
> In a message dated 11/29/2005 3:42:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> feehlee at fcc.net writes:
>
>  > It is amazing what some people will pay for some used tube gear.  A
coworker
>  >  sold a Western Electric tube amp that he brought at an estate sale for
$15.
>  >  It didn't look like anything special, untested, a little dirty.  It
was
> over
>  >  sixty years old and it went for over $3400!  What people will pay for
that
>  >  stuff.
>
> That's because they don't know where to look for it... attics and
> garage sales.
>
> A phool and their money are soon parted. It's kinda hard to criticize
someone
> who shines-up a turd, and then some knucklehead comes along and offers him
a
> mint for it. It's the fault of the phool with the money who offered, not
the
> guy who sold it.
>
> Taking some old piece of gear, restoring it, and having someone willing to
> pay big bux is far different from those who go and make a living off the
> gullibility of others. That is what I find questionable... like those
> sites that sell
> those "super wires" for outlandish prices. That's just plain wrong,
because
> they are making some pretty ridiculous claims and are literally cashing-in
on
> the gullibility of others.
>
> If I fix-up and sell an old tube amplifier, where I have posted honest
> ratings, performance specs, etc, and some phool wants to give me
> fifty times what
> it's really worth, that's his choice. All I did was honestly sell a piece
of
> gear. What he offered to pay for it would be on his own head. So, thinking
of
> that... does anyone have any old tube amps they want to donate to a
> good cause?
>
>
> Willie...
>
>
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