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The gear you bought and sold in 2018 (including acoustic treatment products and accessories)

sprellemannen

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Post the gear you bought and sold in 2018. With comments if you want.
 

graz_lag

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Bought :
Topping DX7s DAC (not received yet ...)
Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7 Headphones

Sold :
Nothing so far in 2018, I have an going-on selling offer for my little SqueezeBox Receiver DAC network receiver on my local Craigslist ...
 

graz_lag

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Topping seems to make excellent products!
Thanks to Amir for making us aware of their great performance by measuring them.

You are right ... One can invest an entire weekend browsing on eBay, reading thousands of DAC offers, but hell o_O if you do not know, and do not have any direct experience with any of the listed brands (Gustard, SMSL, Matrix, Topping, along with dozens of others ...) the risk you lose a lot time and - if you decide to swipe your CC, some money, is very very high, indeed ... :(
If instead you have an objective support from @amirm - your "weekend on eBay"'s scenario is totally different ...
 

graz_lag

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I would have easily exchanged one of my AKG K-7xx sets with your Sennheiser HD800 ... How much did you get it from them in liquid $ or EUR if I may ask ? ...
 

artismo

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Location
Japan
Bought:
HD58X
HE4XX
Focal Elex
Meze 99 Neo
Oppo PM-3
Blue Sadie
Blue Ella
Audeze Sine
LSR305
Yamaha HS8S
Focusrite 2i2 gen 2
Topping D30
Massdrop O2
xDuoo TA-02
5654 tubes: GE, Mullard, Voskhod (my favorite)
SMSL SU-8 [due to ASR’s measurements]
MD THX AAA 789 [as per Amir’s recommendation]
MD CTH with Chinese LPS [out of pure curiosity for the hype]
Arturia Keylab 49
Mogami cabling, Neutrik connectors

Sold:
HD58X - grainy treble
Meze 99 Neo- too bloomy, nice fat bass and warm, miss the sound and on the look out for the rare Classic 99s in White
Yamaha HS8S - bought a house and my studio got smaller (yikes), so acoustics became too terrible for mixing

Selling:
Blue Sadie OR Blue Ella -Love he sound of both, but need something more musical, so might keep the Sadie
Focusrite 2i2 gen 2, MD O2, Topping D30- replacements listed above [SMSL SU-8, MD THX AAA 789]
xDuoo TA-02 and all tubes- maybe, makes a great bedside amp

Considering buying-
Hifiman Sundara- ready for the next step
Fostex TH500RP (I know :/) - just, yeah, curious
Fostex TH909 - maybe
Sennheiser HD6XX/HD650 - vocal focus and recliner listening
Oppo PM-1/2 - can’t find a good enough price, so biding my time. Such wonderful sounding headphones
And whatever anybody else shoots my way. I like clinical SS when mixing and for critical listening, warm and vocal focused when relaxing.
 
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Djsedaw

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Sony TA-S2
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Frank Dernie

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I bought AKG Q90 headphones and a SMSL M9 DAC.
I bought the kit to update my Metric Halo LIO8 to 3d spec, but haven't fitted it yet.
Don't think I sold anything.
 

PierreV

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FX Audio D802 - still very happy with it
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Focal Utopias - quite good, but not a match for the "puts a huge smile on your face until it breaks Giya G3 sound"
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- a couple additional chromecast audio
- a Linn upgrade
- Roon
 

Biblob

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Bought:
AKG K7XX
And thanks to this forum:
Topping D10 & JDS Labs O2 amp
 

BillH

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Bedford, MA
Bought
Topping D30
Topping A30
Hifiman HE-4XX
BIC F-12

Looking to buy used Revel M106
 

Ceburaska

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Lots and lots.
My Sony PSX 555 and 75 turntables, amp, tuner and CD player, Cyrus phono and Topping D50 are new to me this year.
I bought and sold a Topping D10.
Sold my previous dac and amps (Doge, Nord and Allnic).
Bought Graham Slee phono amps, will sell them soon.
Bought an Innuos Zen mini, will soon sell my Innuos Zen.
Bought a bunch of mostly MC cartridges. Sold a bunch of mostly MM cartridges.
Basically I gave up my short lived flirtation with tubes/ valves, got a phono that I can plug 4 turntables into, continued to buy Sony biotracers, and went wholesale into a Sony ES fixation.
Overall, for once, sold more than I bought, just about.
Topping D50 (and D10) were bought under the influence of ASR. Slightly wish the D50 had a remote, but otherwise it is doing a great job.
 

vitalii427

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Kiev, Ukraine
Bought:
JBL 4367

Sold:
Schiit Yggdrasil (due to measurements :))

Selling:
YG Hailey
Classe CP-800 v2
Classe CA-M600 pair
Classe CDT-300
 
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Webninja

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Los Angeles
Bought:
Topping dx7s
JBL 305p
Roon


Sold/Selling:
Music Hall 5.1 (selling)
Yaqin ms-23b (selling)
Schiit Lyr 2 (selling)
Schiit Bifrost multi (selling)
Adam F5
Focal Chorus 706
 

JJB70

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Bought
Oppo PM-2
Audio Technica ATH MSR7
Shanling M3s

Sold
Sony 1000XM2

I bought the Oppo's as I had lusted after a pair or the pricier PM-1 for a while and when I saw these on a clearance offer and also had one of those Ebay 10% codes I pulled the trigger and haven't regretted it, wonderful headphones in every way. I replaced my travel headphones with the MSR7 as the Sony battery life was fading, the MSR7 sounds much better to my ears and for use on trains the passive sound isolation is perfectly adequate.
After a while where I just used my phone I just bought a Shanling M3s as it is clear that smart phones are losing headphone Jack's and the M3s looked nicely made, was small and was in a cheap clearance offer. So far it seems to be a terrific little product.
 

Ron Texas

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Bought Topping D30, Martil Logan Dynamo 1000W sub and a house with a nifty finished attic for music.

Sold: nothing
 

SiW

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Only recently got back into audio so started from nothing. Some early wrong turns but ASR put that right ;)

Bought:
Topping D10
Topping DX3Pro
Topping NX1s
NAD Viso
Several CYP au-d3-192 DACs
CYP au-d160
MiniDSP NanoDIGI
MiniDSP UMIK mic
Lots of cables!

Bought and sold:
Fiio A3
Fiio Taishan D03K DAC

On the look out:
Upgrade headphone :)
 

Old Listener

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SF Bay Area, California
Bought in 2018:

Dynaudio LYD48 active studio monitors (nain system speakers)
Sennheiser RS120 On-Ear Wireless RF Headphones (TV sound)
Audioengine HD6 powered speakers (TV sound)
stands for Dynaudo and Audioengine speakers

Intel 6th Gen. i5 NUC (for use as dedicated Music PC) with 8 GB RAM and 256 GD SSD
Windows 8.1 Pro for use on the NUC

Motorola G6 smartphone and q28 GB mini SDHC memory card (for audio on the go)

Lenovo 10 inch tablet (for selecting music and controlling volume)


Gave Away:

Waveform Mach 17 and external crossover
ATI 6 channel amp
 

pierre

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Baught
Audeze mx4
Thx aaa
Rme da16
Topping d50
5 focal trio
6 focal shape

Sold
1 Audio gd
Alpha dog

Selling
Accuphase e360
Tannoy DC10A
 

SplitTime

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FYI: oppodigital.com is listing “refurbished” PM-2 for sale $399. I have had PM-1 for several years and love them. Maybe a late Christmas present?? :)
 
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