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Item 241: Marantz RC2000, MARK 2, Advanced Universal Programmable Learning Remote Control. Near-unlimited A/V system control with over 400 infra-red commands to control virtually any fully equipped home theater system. This very user friendly remote does it all. One-Button Macro Keys with up to 20 commands can be sent to your A/V system automatically in sequence. See in the Dark adjustable LCD back-lite illumination on command. Re-naming feature. Built-in commands for other equipment using the industry-standard Philips RC-5 language. Much, much more. This is the best of the best in non-computer programmed remotes. Made in Japan, not China. Excellent condition. Original box and manuals included. Uses four "AA" batteries, not included. As you can see from the above right picture, this remote costs $250. Price: $75

Item 240: SOLD Marantz RC2000 Advanced Universal Programmable Learning Remote Control. Basically, the same as the remote above (Item 241), except an earlier model (no Mark II) with a different keypad layout. Near-unlimited A/V system control with over 320 infra-red commands to control virtually any fully equipped home theater system. This very user friendly remote does it all. One-Button Macro Keys with up to 20 commands can be sent to your A/V system automatically in sequence. See in the Dark adjustable LCD back-lite illumination on command. Re-naming feature. Built-in commands for other equipment using the industry-standard Philips RC-5 language. Much, much more. This is the best of the best in non-computer programmed remotes. Made in Japan, not China. Excellent condition. Original box and manuals included. Uses four "AA" batteries, not included. This remote costs the same as the one above ($250), before the new model came out. Price: $50

Item 239: A pair of Criterion Polymer Air Motion Transformers (AMT), model RP-1000. These ultra hi-end tweeters were marketed many years ago through Radio Shack (RS). This had to be a marketing error, because these dynamic outperformers were way beyond RS's "pay-grade." They were manufactured in Japan (not China) under a license from Criterion in London, England. These are the world-famous Heil air motion transformers, a loudspeaker mechanism, or audio transducer, invented by Dr. Oskar Heil. It operates on a different principle than both electrodynamic and electrostatic speaker drivers. The AMT moves air in an augmented, semi-perpendicular motion using a folded sheet (made of polyethylene, polyester or polyimide), structured around a series of aluminium struts positioned in a high intensity magnetic field. Approximately 4" square by 1" deep. You can mount them on top of a pair of speakers (as I did) with the custom L-bracket shown in the picture, or remove it and flush mount them in a speaker enclosure, etc. They work great with a good crossover too, but not necessary. All metal construction. I've had this pair languishing in a box, almost since they were new. Since my acquisition of other ultra hi-end speakers, I had [and have] no use for them that I can justify anymore. I hate to part with them because the quality is [arguably] beyond anything available today, especially for the miniscule price I am asking. Your high frequencies will "squeal" with dynamic, efficient delight! I promise! Both for $200

Item 238: SOLD A pair of Realistic Soft Dome Midrange Speakers. I don't think you can call anything that Radio Shack sells "hi-end" but some of their early stuff was high quality, like these soft domed speakers pictured above. 70 watt max. capacity, 8 ohms. Made in Japan, not China. About 4" square and 1" deep. Great midrange addition to any speaker system. Or you could use them as a compact stand-alone, full-range speaker? Although the high and low frequencies would be somewhat diminished. Excellent condition and priced right. Not sold separately. Both for $25

Item 237: Emerson EAN3000 Antenna Eliminator. Auxilliary antenna IN connector (lower left above). Two antenna OUT connectors (lower right above). Power LED light. LO/HI gain switch. AC/Cable switch. Built-in AC plug on back (see above right picture). Inserts into any wall outlet and uses your entire house wiring system as an antenna. NEW-in-the-Box. Never used. Price: $20

Item 233: Ferrante & Teicher, For You With Love. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Four LPs in the boxed set. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $20

Item 232: ELECTROHOME Stereo Hi-Fi with the Difference, presents a Stereo Command Performance. LP #1: Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, Dimension 3. LP #2: Persuasive Percussion - Vol. 4, Enoch Light and the Command All-Stars. LP #3: The Big Band's Back In Town, featuring Doc Serverinsen. LP #4: The Robert de Cormier Folk Singers. LP #5: Songs for Lonesome Lovers, The Ray Charles Singers. LP #6: Spanish Guitar, Tony Mottola and his Orchestra. LP #7: William Steinberg and the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Seven LPs in the boxed set. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $35

Item 231: The Longines Symphonette Society proudly presents Bert Kaempfert, Strangers in the Night and 49 other great Kaempfert selections. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Five LPs in the boxed set. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $25

Item 230: The Longines Symphonette's complete treasury of nostalgic holiday music. Christmas at the Fireside. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Four LPs in the boxed set. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $20

Item 229: The Great Band Era. 37 top bands play 10 years of top tunes (1936 to 1945). Original recordings by Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Les Brown, Shep Fields, and many more. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Ten LPs in the boxed set. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $50

Item 228: Serenade for Lovers. Romantic Mood Music by the Melachrino Strings, Vic Damone, Harry Belafonte, Jack Jones, Chet Atkins, Hugo Winterhalter, John Gary, Ed Ames, Henry Mancini, Perry Como and 29 others. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Nine LPs in the boxed set plus pamphlet. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $45

Item 227: The Longines Symphonette Recording Society. Gold Medal Recording. The Memory Years 1925-1960. Selected Recordings by the distinguished American conductor Mishel Piastro. These LPs belonged to my mother, before she passed. They are in NEW condition. No scratches. She was an audiophile way back when. My uncle and mother passed their love of music on to me. I am also an audiophile, but these LPs don't interest me. Six LPs in the boxed set. Pricing is based on $5 per record. Price: $30 FYI, a true audiophile knows that stereo LPs are the highest fidelity music format available. CDs are compressed digital garbage forced on us long ago by the music industry. However, the LP's demise was not a bad thing. Since its departure, this analog music format has evolved into a hi-end music reproduction media, beyond what it could ever have become when it was mainstream. No more sand filler in the vinyl to save a buck, 200+ gram LPs are now the standard, etc. Digital will never reproduce the dynamic fidelity, nuances or warmth of analog. We are analog beings, and analog begets analog. Arguably, the evolved audiophile also understands that two channel stereo is for music, and 5.1 (7.1, etc.) surround is for movies, not music. - PBVS

Item 219: Two CD racks that break down for compact storage. Each rack holds 20 CDs. What else can I say. WYSIWYG. Another good filler to achieve your $25 minimum. Price: $5 for both

Item 218: SIMA Audio/Video Processing Control Center, Pro Edit 3. This color processor/editor/enhancer/mixer not only edits audio (above, right side of control panel), but it also edits video (above, left side of control panel). Video slide knobs from left to right are color, tint, detail, picture set. Center slide knob is video gain. Audio slide knobs from left to right are AV source, music, mic, output. Bottom square push buttons from left to right are power, auto fade, bypass, source 1, source 2. Back panel outputs and inputs are left and right audio and video RCA jacks (see picture below). Front panel right and left microphone inputs are 1/8" phono jacks. This unit cost me about $100. Includes wall-wart power supply. Price: $50

Item 153: Got turntables? If not, move on. If you have an old turntable, or one of the new ultra-expensive hi-end super tables, with adjustable speed capability, this strobe disc will set your table's speed right on the money. And you don't need any special light source beyond a standard incandesant light bulb. In the years when I offered hi-end audio components, like turntables and isolation platforms (still do the isolation stuff), this strobe disc was a good seller. You have three distinct speed circles, 33, 45 and 78 rpm. The disc is made of heavy card stock with a hole in the middle. I use one on my 3-arm super table all the time and it works great! Remember, all items priced under [say] $10 are [what I call] "fillers" to help acquire your minimum purchase. If you only want this disc, it will cost you $3 plus $7 for shipping = $10. Not such a good deal. Price: $3 each

Item 152: RCA Hi-End VR685HF VHS Recorder with flying erase heads. This was RCA's top-of-the-line Hi-Fi stereo VCR back in the day. It has every hi-end feature you could cram in an A/V component. Yes, I said 4-HEAD DOUBLE AZIMUTH FLYING ERASE! That means that this studio-quality reference machine (for its day) can dub video, cut and edit without the five or ten seconds of snowy picture after every cut. Push the pause button to edit, push the play button to continue, and you get instant breaks between video cuts. This function is just like all the VHS camcorders of yesteryear, except these flying erase heads don't have a lens attached. Includes original manual and very cool remote with "flywheel" video control. This recorder cost me $600 a while back. Very little use. Price: $95

Item 149: Samsung SIR-T351 Digital HDTV-Ready Hi-Def Tuner. This stand-alone component is a perfect way to upgrade analog or flat-screen TVs that don't have a built-in Digital ATSC tuner. Understand, this is not your typical digital converter box that sells for about $50. This guy is Hi-Definition and outputs every format available including HDMI, DVI, Component, S-Video, Optical, Composite and it even has a DB15 DTV RGB output. Resolutions are 1080i, 720p, 480p, 480i. Also has all the 16 x 9 widescreen HDTV progressive scanning modes. Here's the rub, and it's a very small one. This component has the DVI hi-def output on the back, not the HDMI. If you use a, hard to find, DVI to HDMI cable, you get HDMI hi-def video output, but no audio through the HDMI cable. DVI had 1080i hi-def video just like HDMI, but it never sent the audio through the DVI cable. So when you use the HDMI adapter cable (included), you only get the hi-def video signal out, and this DVI/HDMI video output supports the new HDCP function too. This is why I've included the DVI to HDMI cable and an optical cable (shown attached to the rear of the component above). If you use the HDMI [cable] for the hi-def video, you can also use the TOSLINK optical cable to get Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 surround sound to your non-HDMI analog receiver. Almost all of the pre-HDMI receivers had Component video and Optical audio control capabilities. You just have to use two cables - one for hi-def video and one for 5.1 surround audio. No big deal. Of course, if you don't want to use the digital DVI, HDMI or Optical audio outputs, this HDTV tuner had hi-def 1080i component video outputs too. If your TV set accepts component video inputs, you can still receive hi-def 1080i signals free, over the air. Like NEW. Includes remote control, original owner's manual, and the two hi-def cables mentioned and shown above. If you need a good component cable, see my CABLES link. This hi-end Digital HDTV Tuner component sold for about $150. These rare hi-def capable digital HDTV tuners are selling for a premium now, if you can find one, because this unit was pulled from the shelves right after I bought it. Nothing wrong with the unit. It is just A/V industry greed. There is a conspiracy between all HDTV manufacturers. They don't want to sell you a $150 HDTV Tuner so you can upgrade your existing analog TV set. They want to force you to buy a multi-thousand dollar HDTV with a built-in tuner just like this one. Samsung screwed up offering this one early on, until they learned of their mistake and pulled them off the market. Of course, the industry will deny everything, and never comment on this subject. Samsung makes HDTVs too. Need I say more? Price: $95

Item 148: Audio/Video Manual Selector AV-521Y/C. 5 source input, 2 source output. Switches S-video, composite 2-channel audio and video via line-level RCA type plugs. Has a mini headphone jack on the front. Rubber suction feet on the bottom to keep it in place when pushing the buttons. No power required. Sells for about $40 new. New condition. Price: $20

Item 147: SOLD Hard-to-find, not in your local Ultimate Electronics or Best Buy, Audio Authority 1154A Component HDTV Video Selecter. The A stands for automatic. No remote required, and definitely not needed. This unit senses the signal, any one of four, inputs from your components and automatically switches to it. No remotes required, or needed. Or you can switch components manually using the front panel push button. It switches everything through hi-def analog component, plus TOSLINK Optical and composite audio and video inputs x4 and output x1. Take a close look at the back of the unit above to see all that switching capability. This unit really works great - automatically! Best switcher on the market for automatic component/composite/optical switching x 4. Includes wall-wart power supply and manual. Cost me over $100 only a couple of years ago. Price: $50

Item 145: 10" HiVi F Series Woofer. Rock the house! Power handling: 120 watts RMS/170 watts max - Impedance: 8 ohms - Freq response: 28-800 Hz. Kevlar fiber composite cone, high loss rubber surround, flat linear spider (not telescope), high power handling voice coil on aluminum former. Comes with documentation, mounting screws and a roll of sticky-backed sealer. 5" deep. This driver could be the heart of a great subwoofer project. Sells new for $80. This one is New in the Box. Never used. Price: $40

Item 95: Definitive Technology (DT) ProMonitor 200 speakers. ProCinema series. These are not the smaller Pro60s, Pro80s or Pro100s. These are the big boys - the Pro 200s. They were very hard to find because no one offered these monsters locally. Too hi-end. I had to special order them. They are the largest ProCinema speakers offered by DT. Note the CD in the picture to show their giant comparative size. These audiophile-level speakers would be great for an upgrade from 5.1 to 7.1 surround, or just use them in a stereo configuration with a separate subwoofer? Or you could upgrade (switch around) your lower quality right and left front speakers, moving them to the rear-back 7.1 position, and inserting these guys in a place of dominance. They have swivel bases and gold plated terminals. 16"H (with bases) x 11"D x 7.75"W. Freq. Response 28Hz-30 kHz. Efficiency 91 dB. Power handling up to 200 watts per channel. Phase coherent Linkwitz-Riley crossovers. Original box, base adjustment wrench and manual, including the [never installed] chrome Definitive name plates (shown at the bottom of the bag in the above left picture). These guys cost $500 for the pair about a year ago. Yes, I'm also an audio/videophile and have been since near birth. Hi-def A/V rules! Like NEW. Not sold separately. They are big and heavy, so there will be additional cost for shipping. $175 for both

Item 94: SOLD This Sharp Dual Stereo Cassette Player/Recorder was used at BFO to play the audio cassettes for slide shows, using narrated slide sets like the ones sold below. Great for dubbing cassettes or recording them from an external source. It probably had a dozen cassettes played in the component, ever.  Like new. Includes original manual. I would like $50

Item 93: SOLD Like-New SONY Blu-ray Player, Model BDP-S300. I've had this component for less than a year and it has served perfectly. I just upgraded from a cutting-edge (this component) to a bleeding-edge model. You can't get into hi-def Blu-ray for less than what I am asking, and all Blu-ray players upgrade your standard-def movies to 1080p rez. This unit has all the current features like 1080p output, 24 frame per second and 36-bit deep color capability. And it includes all the current outputs including HDMI. I just ordered the latest 4.20 firmware upgrade from Sony and installed it in this unit, so it is actually better than when it was new (note the disc in the picture). And I'll throw in 6 Blu-ray movies (my choice, not yours). Since the average Blu-ray movie costs $30, that's $180 worth of Blu-ray movies for FREE. I dare you to find a better deal for even close to my price! I paid $400, but you can buy this component now for around $300 on sale. You don't get a lot of free movies when you purchase a new hi-def player anymore since the format war is over and Sony's Blu-ray format won. Includes original box, remote, manual and 6 free Blu-ray movies. Mint condition. No offers. $150

Item 76: This 2-channel device is for stereo [or mono] audio conversion applications. It simply converts a +4dB signal to a -10dB signal, or visa versa. It has four 1/4" pnono jacks on the bottom of the box. One input and one output for each channel. It is a passive device and requires no external power. If you are an audiophile and have a turntable and listen to LPs (records), this device will work miracles between your phono stage amplifier and your amp/receiver. You will need to do some simple cable matching, but I guarantee it will be worth the effort. It also does a nice job of eliminating hum between components. Yes, I use one in my audio system and I would not listen to my LPs without it in the path. I have a bunch of them. You can look them up on the internet to find their retail price. My price is a fraction of the new price and all are NEW in the blister pack. Price: $15 each

Item 75: Gold plated RCA jacks for panel mounting. They are NEW and in their original packaging. One has a red center and the other has a black center. I have a large quantity of these jacks. SOLD 15 pair, still have a bunch. They cost about $5 a pair for the gold plated ones. You can have one for 50 cents, when you buy at least 10 for $5 - what a deal!