[harrinj]

Ugh this person with this KA-9100 just will not reply. If there's still nothing by Saturday I'm giving up. It sucks because another Kenwood I want so bad the KR-9600 was on CL a couple weeks back for.......................$275! Missed out on that one. It had been posted for 3 days and when I was gonna contact and clicked the bookmark for it, poof... It was removed. Somebody got a good deal. :/ all the other 9600's I've seen they want $600 or more.

 

[Silent One]

CL: Occasionally, some of those listings are posted by hackers/spammers. And sometimes real listings hijacked by them. But it definitely pays to investigate just in case. 

 

[harrinj]

Well here is the ad. Can't hurt posting it now since they don't respond.

http://eugene.craigslist.org/ele/4582405454.html

The images aren't on the internet so they didn't use fake images but for THIS to still be available (in Eugene of all places) is odd I think. Looks like its in some kind of second hand shop. They also have a B&O Beogram 4004 TT posted too now that definitely since they aren't asking an obnoxious fortune I think would not last long on CL in Eugene with those awful hipsters there (I'll hold in a rant about those things lol) and the other Eugene folk.

 

[musicman59]

You are all vintage addicts! 

 

[AudioArby]

  You are all vintage addicts! 

Thank you... Thank you very much 

 

[wotts]

  You are all vintage addicts! 

 
 

 

[buson160man]

 I would like to make a suggestion to anyone with a concept receiver . I tried isoclean fuses in my concept receiver and the difference is just amazing . It has transformed my receiver into a truly reference level headphone amp . I am sure you will not be disappointed if you try the isoclean fuses in your concept receiver . This has got to be one of the better 50 buck tweaks that I have come across .The difference it makes is not subtle it is huge .

 

[Oregonian]

I'm just across the river and only have one. Then again, I stopped buying things until I sold the previous one with one exception. Don't have room and I don't like stuff sitting in a closet not being used.

The thing is, in my case they ALL are in use.

1 - Spec system in the audio room feeding Cerwin Vegas
2 - SX-1050 in family room feeding a pair of Polk Audio speakers
3 - SA-9900 in the garage feeding the Klipsch 3.2's for music
4 - Fisher 880C in the garage feeding Yamaha speakers as part of my TV system for workouts
5 - Realistic STA64B in my office fed from my Yoga into an Altec Lansing 2.1 system via a Schoche adapter
6 - Kenwood KA-5700 in home office feeding a pair of Advent bookshelfs
7 - Hitach 804 in living room for the wife's FM music
8 - Pioneer SA-7500 in family room dedicated to headphone listening fed by a NuForce iDo and iPhone4

My rule was to have them all in use and I can honestly say they all get used regularly.

I'm nuts I just realized. Me love vintage.........

 

[harrinj]

I always change mine out.

I've been looking up second hand stores in Eugene trying to find this store it looks like this KA-9100 is at no luck and Still no response... Kinda ticked off but I guess its time to give up on it.

 

[Silent One]

 

  You are all vintage addicts! 

 
 

 

[Silent One]

   I would like to make a suggestion to anyone with a concept receiver . I tried isoclean fuses in my concept receiver and the difference is just amazing . It has transformed my receiver into a truly reference level headphone amp . I am sure you will not be disappointed if you try the isoclean fuses in your concept receiver . This has got to be one of the better 50 buck tweaks that I have come across .The difference it makes is not subtle it is huge .

Fuse swap: This is something I didn't think to do. And will be one of the first things I'll try when I return to vintage.

 

[AudioArby]

OK, I looked at isocleans' website and don't know how a 1/2" slow-blow fuse is going to vastly improve audio out of a music source. I also don't want to put a slow-blow in place of a fast-blow fuse. Keep the 24k gold end caps (you don't want to mix metals anyway). A regular fuse costs 25 cents. I'm not paying over 40 bucks for a piece of wire whose main function is to break.

 

[Silent One]

Replace or no @ 20cents & up, I would think cleaning the contacts (fuse holder) might prove helpful with a vintage lovely. And while I'm in there I'd replace the fuse anyway...

 

[AudioArby]

Or replace the fuse holders completely and buy pig tail fuses. Then solder them in if your worried it's going to cause noise. Spend your money replacing capacitors, semiconductors and fuse resistors on vintage gear. They're what goes wrong on vintage equipment.

 

[Arsis]

a fuse!?! c'mon! no. way.