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I'm a tube guy but I remember this from my college days.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
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called "Dirty Don's Warehouse Audio". That would be Doity Don's as pronounced by the owner. He had all sorts of crap stacked to the ceiling at his business. Don used to visit FJA where I hung out and talk about the business.
I'll never forget his stance on customer service: "I give them a 30/30 warranty. I'll take care of any problem for 30 feet or 30 seconds outside the door."
That guy seemed a little off of his rocker. Agree that the vast majority of of stuff in the stacks of boxes is now completely obsolete and wasn't even top of the line in the first place.
I kept wondering how much of that stuff would even still work. All of those dried up and or gooey belts on the turntables and cassette decks that would fall off when powered up and ran for the first time. Not to mention the dried up and or leaking capacitors, cracked solder joints, etc.
nt
Pretty much everything is here.
aa
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I still enjoyed going to these shops every time I was in Hong Kong. It was like walking through a museum.Over a 10 year period I did manage to pick up a lot of tubes, Riken resistors, Black Gate caps, Rogers LS 3/5A speakers, Harbeth LS 3/5A speakers, Diapason Micra speakers, Oppo's 971 Chinese equivalent, several Watts Manual Parastats, a Rega RB300 tonearm, a ZYX R30 cartridge, two cheap Dynavector 10 X 4 cartridges, one cheap Denon DL103R cartridge, and a cheap ASR Mini Basis phono preamp. The shop with all the speakers hanging from the ceiling custom made me a star grounding power strip with spike protection. I haven't had the nerve to try it yet, and I haven't used most of the items listed above. I just wanted to take advantage of my free travel and the money I once had before retirement.
The equipment you see in the pictures does not go cheap, but the thrill was that all this vintage gear was in numerous commercial stores for easy access and purchase on the spot if you wanted. I really miss it, but my retirement pocketbook doesn't.
Edits: 09/21/16
Thats unbelievable .....
Can I be his friend please!!!
The first was a repair guy's shop. He felt proud of the thousand plus objects lining his walls. All Japanese giant receivers from the 60 through 80's. IMO a wasteland of junk. I guess a treasure of cheap spare parts?
Then another place.. two guys with a love of audio. Their place was lined with an astounding array of classic famous audio gear perfectly restored.
Plus a large number of classic speakers, also restored.. Naturally it was all really high priced.. but they know their customers. Who want perfection from the product. I go there and drool excessively.
I really like those dubbing cassette decks eh?
Where is the dust and cobwebs? If i go a month in my home without dusting it looks 100x worse than that. All i saw was a bunch of boxes. He seemed more interested
In showing all of the boxes and never gave the viewer a real look at what was there.
You made a good point there. My garage turns into Wild Kingdom if I don't go out there every once in a while.
Also something very curious I kept noticing with the camera shots. There were a lot of very interesting pieces off to the sides of the shots. Like when he was drooling over those crappy cassette decks. Just out of frame was something interesting. And sitting on a few of those piles were what did look like some interesting pieces out of boxes.
What the hell are you going to do with a circa 1985 JVC DVD player and cassette deck????
"Horsetrader Ed" commercials I saw way back when in the SF Bay Area. I wasn't buying then...deja vu all over again.
Jim
http://jimtranr.com
Good riddance: I am SO GLAD they are completely, unquestionably, OBSOLETE.
I remember the sound of the JVC receiver I had: I would NEVER want to relive that again. They should send them to Guantanamo as torture enhancement devices.
(nt)
Oh boy, 40 year-old electrolytic capacitors in mid-fi junk that I wouldn't have considered even when it was new.
He keeps invoking "audiophile" as if that would legitimize this stuff.
There is a good reason it's piled in an abandoned warehouse.
Peace,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9
I had the same response five years ago when this story broke the first time. Who would want that midfi crap? I guess somebody did.
Thanks I did need that laugh!!!!
I was thinking the same exact thing when he kept talking about audiophile and standing next to a stack of JVC DVD players and those Pioneer SX digital tuner receivers - Yikes!!!
The gems were in the repair and service areas. And he BLEW past those!!!
So I guess that's a foolproof test to check for foam rot...just
shine a flashlight on 'em!!!. Not!!!.
It was interesting to see but the vast majority of that stuff is just fun to look at. Those Pioneer turntables were pretty much at the low end of quality - because I actually still have one!
And all those JVC DVD players - ahhh what-cha gonna do with them?
But when he moved into the service area - NOW we're talking interesting!!! There was some great stuff just laying there. I think the service area would bring in more cash then all those DVD players and turntables.
Thanks for the Sunday video. It was fun to watch.
Most of that stuff is not high-end, with the possible exception of the Nakamichi and Accuphase.
Thanks! for sharing- Michael.
my query;
would any of the gear "work" after so many years of non-use?
What's the deal with the tag hanging from the guy's hat? That's rather odd.
The equipment all looks like a bunch of junk to me. To each his own!
I'm guessing he was going to try and sell it as new once the video was done. :)
Agreed-
the down side of our wonderful hobby, in that, there are many "flakes".
Eccentric audio shop owner, closed up shop 25 years ago, locked the doors and forgot about all the inventory, or figured that he'd open up the shop up again when the economy improved?
Probably 95% worthless, except maybe to some collectors and a few nostalgic old timers. But that 5% is probably worth a nice bit of coin. I looked up a few things - circa 1993, so that gives an idea of when the place was padlocked.
Weird. But in the world of retail audio, weird is common. The owner was a hoarder. They probably also found 50 cat carcasses and a fridge full of yogurt dated 1989 within that mess.
some of the items from the video (actually an ad) were listed on ebay.
I took a look at what they were asking for a JVC 1010 CD player (link to Asylum discussion below) and saw the prices were insane. Not Crazy Eddie insane, but buy it now for list price on a (then) 23 year old unit insane.
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