Why so many amplifiers for sale?

When I call myself, the line is always busy.

Keep that up and you'll grow hair on your palms and go blind!

Marco

the thriving Audiogon market for used components. I am not, generally speaking, inclined to buy and sell regularly. I tend to build a system, then enjoy it for years. Recently, though, I built a smaller system to use in my small NY apartment, and found myself buying and selling SS integrated amps several times before finding what I wanted. The only reason that I was able to do so, of course, was because I lost very little money while buying and selling the various popular models.

If you're interested, the recent evolution went like this:

Bryston B60
Accuphase E-212
SimAudio Moon I-5
Bel Canto eVo2i
Jeff Rowland Design Group Concentra I

I am very happy to report that, having recently acquired the Rowland Concentra, I will definitely not be buying or selling for the foreseeable future! I'll write more about my experience sometime soon, but frankly, I am astonished at how far superior (in the context of my system) the JRDG Concentra is to the other above-mentioned amps (all of which were solid performers).

Tony C.

TUBES, that's where most everyone I know is headed- I can not for the life of me figure this out. I have some really good tube gear on hand, and really good SS gear beats it's ass IMHO in all but the midrange. Yes tubes sound good, at LOWER volume levels, but really good SS gear, cant match that tube midrange, however, REALLY, turn it up and tubes loose to their ss counterparts- why again is this I ask?

I enjoy tubes AND ss gear, the challenge for me is not in what is more costly, or popular, but what SOUNDS best in MY home in MY room to ME- I wait and let those with more pocket change then myself get tired of really good gear and then I snap it up when I can.

Truth be told, tubes have a midrange/trebble advantage that SS can not equal- dollar for dollar, but SS has a bass section and ease that tubes couldnt hope to resolve. SO, that said why doesnt some one like B&K or the like create a BI Ampable pre, that is tubes- say from 100Hz and up, and SS 100Hz and down.

I would buy that product!!!!

Need I say more?

You guys are sooooo '90's! I've got all my sources connected to my pc. Then I have the pc call my cell phone to hear the playback. Yeah, it sound like shit but it is waaaayyyyy cool!

Dan_ed, so you must be the guy I see walking by with the PC on his shoulder, pressed up to your ear? A boombox for the new millenium, I presume?

My father has taken great interest in this thread, and wanted me to share his latest innovation. It still requires the use of one amp, but he's got the entire house now wired (or strung, as it were) for sound. You see, during the remodel, he had the electricians run a 16ga string equivalent throughout the house, and into five separate rooms, thus allowing him to place four of his amplifiers up for sale right here on the 'Gon. A prize to anyone who can pick them out of the classifieds.

Given the complexity of the network, he opted to use a bucket at the home base amp in lieu of the more customary cup. But now, whenever he wants music, he can pick up the cup hanging on the wall in any of the five rooms, hold it to his ear, and take in the tunes. In addition, he can simultaneously use the cellphone on the other ear for a sort of Cecil Taylor-ish stereo effect. He did say that the cats must be sequestered during the string--he used Litz, by the way--installation process, or they will invariably become permanent wall-dwellers. Unfortunately, Mingus the Persian now must be fed through the light socket in the guest bedroom, poor little guy.