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Title: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Bogie on September 01, 2007, 12:16:13 PM
I know more than a few folks here dig the tuneage... I'm cleaning house, and one of the items I'm unloading is a Yaoin tube buffer (goes between your DVD player and your preamp or receiver). It's got the original Chinese tubes and a set of "vintage" RCAs with it...
 
This is a good way to "try out" tubes... If you don't like it, sell it to someone else, maybe lose/make a few bucks. If you do like it, either keep it, or upgrade.

These tend to run about $150 or so shipped from China... I _really_ liked the "tube sound," so much in fact that I'm going to go to a "real" tube preamp. But to do that, I've gotta (a) make space, and (b) not spend a bunch more money... So... Just put the thing on the 'bay...

Now to start going through Jen's old jeans that she decided to yard sale...
 
http://stores.ebay.com/Bogies-Bizarre
 
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Gewehr98 on September 01, 2007, 01:51:54 PM
Just put an eSnipe bid on it.  Dunno what it's good for, but it has tubes.   grin
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Bogie on September 01, 2007, 02:06:42 PM
what's esnipe?
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Gewehr98 on September 01, 2007, 02:16:50 PM
Automated bid sniping, synchronized to eBay's clock.  I fire off my snipe bids in the last 4 seconds of an auction.  Wink
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Bogie on September 01, 2007, 02:23:11 PM
Cool... I gotta look into that... I think I just got sniped on a cheap hard drive for The Waumpuscat's (my esteemed father...) linux box...

Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: 280plus on September 01, 2007, 02:26:43 PM
I like to do my sniping manually, good adrenaline rush what with all the heart pounding and stuff.  cheesy

Thanks bogie, no tubes for me. I DO have an old tube amp I can put my guitar through though. I can get some neat overdrive out of that thing let me tell ya. I haven't played with it (the amp, dammit!) in a while, I should bust it out. But not tonight.  grin
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: crt360 on September 01, 2007, 08:32:26 PM
Crappy dial-up + ebay = I get sniped more often than not.  sad
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: DustinD on September 04, 2007, 02:12:33 PM
Why don't they just enable the feature that extends auctions after every bid?
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Bogie on September 04, 2007, 02:22:41 PM
I _hate_ that... I hit an industrial auction site that bumps it 5 minutes with every bid... So you know that somewhere, there's some dude in a cube calling his boss to see if they can beat you...

Actually, I've had good results starting off with a high bid, and every time someone bids, it gets automatched... People look at the bid history, and decide not to bother.

Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Gewehr98 on September 08, 2007, 11:21:35 AM
Killed my e-Snipe bid.  It's already over what I set as my upper limit.  Wink
Title: Re: Hey, budding audiophiles...
Post by: Bogie on September 08, 2007, 01:03:11 PM
Went for $91... Someone got a deal, and I'm happy enough with it.