Audio Equipment

Analog & Digital

Teres Turntable - Acrylic

Base and arm mount painted Alfa Romeo red. New motor and bearing. Drilled for a RB-250. No tone arms included.

Excellent condition, looks very sharp ! See picture and story here

Why pay more for a high-end TT and not get as good performance ?

$1500 

Theta 'Miles' integrated CD player

Great sounding, smooth operating, and beautiful player.

Undiscovered gem, never got reviewed by the major magazines, but has a outstanding price / performance ratio !

Some simple tweaks added: bearing damping, lubrication.

Excellent condition, original box, manual, heavy power cable.

$1250

Benchmark DAC-1 HDR

Great sounding Pro DAC, 24 bit, 192khz capable, excellent jitter immunity.

Top of the DAC-1 line model. Preamp version (one analog input), with remote control switching, volume, mute, etc

Excellent condition, original box, manual, power cord, and XLR adaptor.

 

$1300 

Benchmark DAC-1

Great sounding Pro DAC, 24 bit, 192khz capable, excellent jitter immunity.

Excellent condition, original box, manual, power cord, and XLR adaptor.

 

$650 

Onkyo SE-U55 USB DAC/ADC (external sound card)

Record or Play from Digital to/from Analog. Great for digitizing your vinyl records or tapes.

Coax (RCA), Optical and USB connections, USB bus powered. Mac and Windows compatible. 16 bits, 44.1khz

Excellent condition, 

DAC, Manual, Software disk, USB cables, NOB

$30

Amps and Speakers

2 - upgraded Audio Research Corp D-52b Amplifiers

Great sounding upgrade of the ARC D-52b amps. 

All new connecters, heavy power cord, power switch, and more...

Can be set up for stereo, or dual mono mode (for bi-amping).

Excellent condition, much better then new !

Very Effective Sonic Upgrades to these 60 watt, but muscular amps. See  this  page for more info

$550 each

Acoustat Spectra 1100 Hybrid Electrostatic Powered Speakers

Acoustat Spectra 1100 hybrid electrostatic speakers with significant electronic upgrades. Needs new woofer drivers.

Will sell for parts ! Panels, electronics, etc Call

** Effective Sonic Upgrades. See this page for more info...


Includes:  
Speakers
Bias power supplies (wall warts)
User manual
Set of 8 carpet spikes
Homemade amp stands
Set of short speaker cables (4) for vertical bi-amping.

** Local area pickup only (I don't have any boxes or crates for them)  **

$650

Estate sale

8 -  Lambda Dipole-15 woofer drivers 

This are the same drivers as the Acoustic Elegance Dipole 15 drivers.

NOS w/ phase plugs - $800 for all eight drivers, $150 each, local pickup only. Note one driver has a rubbing voice coil.

More info here...

Call

Audio Accessories and Parts

Shure SFG-2 Precision Stylus Force Gauge

Clean, low use, original box

$15

 

Misc parts from Rega RB-250 tonearm

Arm tube, overhang/45 adaptor, counterweight, lift parts, screws, and more... plus a Beilex Audio record clamp !

$20

 

900mm drive belt for ClearAudio turntables

ClearAudio part #AC032

$20

 

Mod Squad Tip Toes (2 sets)

3 short Tip Toes, w/ screws

3 tall Tip Toes, w/ screws

$30

 

Spike set

4 - 1-3/4" spikes with adjusting nuts and inserts for use in MDF and soft wood speaker boxes

$5

 

Yamaha PX-2 Linear Tracking Turntable Manual Copies

Package of b&w Copies of:

Owners Manual  (15 pages)
Service Manual  ( 18 pages)
Parts List  (11 pages)
Product Literature / Brochure  (4 pages)

Useful for the PX-3 turntable too, which is very similar to the PX-2, but with lower specs.

Great for repair and maintenance of these fine  turntables.

I hope to have these available again sometime...

Temporarily out of stock

$15

postpaid

Audio Magazines

Early TAS and Stereophile

Small format magazines:

TAS - Issues: #52, 111, 112, 114

 Stereophool - 3/90, 7/91, 8/91, 6/92, 10/92, 4/93

Call

FI - (19 magazines)

6/96, 9/96, 1/97, 9/97, 

1/98, 2/98, 3/98. 4/98, 6/98, 7/98, 8/98(2), 9/98, 10/98(2), 11/98, 12/98,

1/99, 2/99

Call

Misc. Audiophile magazines

Listener - (19 magazines)

Vol. 5: #3, 4, Vol. 6: #1, 2, 3, Vol. 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Vol. 8: #1, 2, 5

Hi-Fi+ (7 magazines)

Issue #12, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 31

Various (10 magazines)

Audio, The Audiophile Voice, Audio Horizons, Positive Feedback, Tracking Angle, Ultra High Fidelity, Ultimate Audio

Call

Misc. DIY Audio Magazines

Audio Express (11 magazines)

1/01, 8/01, 9/01, 6/02, 7/04, 11/04

Speaker Builder - 1/98, 4/00, 8/00

Audio Electronics - 3/98, 4/00

Call

Sold...

DB Systems DBP-10 Phono Alignment Protractor

White and clear plastic parts, instructions, review, leather storage sleeve. Only lightly used.

Recommended by Stereophile and audio professionals for accurate cartridge and tone arm setup.

Sold

 

Infinity FET Preamp

Heavy construction, flexible preamp with pre-preamp, AC switching, and nice circuit boards. But needs modern components to sound good. A nice upgrade project preamp. Beautiful face plate with working blue lighting.

Stunning looks and ground breaking technology (for the time).

Working condition, missing side panels.

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Harmon Kardon HK-715 Digital AM/FM Tuner

More info on HK-715 Tuner

Digitally Synthesized PLL, complete, easy to operate, and good looking tuner.

Sold

 

HK 715 Tuner

Diamond Rio MP3 Player

PMP300 MP3 player, 32 Meg SmartMedia card, headphones, and cable with parallel adapter. It works fine !

Sold

The Absolute Sound #1-49, and The Perfect Vision #1-4

The Absolute Sound

TAS Issues #1 through #49 complete !, plus #66, and #80.   Excellent to Very Good condition.

The Perfect Vision

TPV Issues #1, #2, #3, #4.   Excellent to Very Good condition.

Will consider splitting up the TAS and TPV collections only.

55 back issues total: 

28 lbs shipping weight

Sold Absolute Sound covers

Perfect Vision covers