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FA: Rare Dual 701 on eBay...ends Sunday night
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo"
wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo"
wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house.
Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house.
Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:34:22 GMT, "Harry Lavo"
wrote: Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house. Well then, if so, how come it's rare? This was a fairely popular TT in its time. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:34:22 GMT, "Harry Lavo"
wrote: Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house. Well then, if so, how come it's rare? This was a fairely popular TT in its time. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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Ron -
You sure you are not confusing the 701 with the remainder of the 700 series, which followed several years later...the 704, 714, and 721 were very popular manual and semi-automatic tables in the late '70's. The 701 cost $400 when introduced in mid '70's and was a pretty specialized table with nothing else in that price range at the time except audiophile turntables. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:34:22 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house. Well then, if so, how come it's rare? This was a fairely popular TT in its time. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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Ron -
You sure you are not confusing the 701 with the remainder of the 700 series, which followed several years later...the 704, 714, and 721 were very popular manual and semi-automatic tables in the late '70's. The 701 cost $400 when introduced in mid '70's and was a pretty specialized table with nothing else in that price range at the time except audiophile turntables. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:34:22 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house. Well then, if so, how come it's rare? This was a fairely popular TT in its time. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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Actually, I owned a 701 for several years, until replaced with a Revox B791 in 1980 or so. The 701 was an excellent TT for the price. Two of my friends also bought one and several stores in the Boston area carried it. over the years, I repaired several 701s, brought in by neighbors. It wasn't as ubiquitous as, say, the 1214, but not exactly rare, either. But what I was responding to was your assumption that rarity is a selling point. It may be, for collectors; but for people that buy a TT simply to use it, rarity is (or should be) a deterrant. -- Ron On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 02:30:34 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: Ron - You sure you are not confusing the 701 with the remainder of the 700 series, which followed several years later...the 704, 714, and 721 were very popular manual and semi-automatic tables in the late '70's. The 701 cost $400 when introduced in mid '70's and was a pretty specialized table with nothing else in that price range at the time except audiophile turntables. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:34:22 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house. Well then, if so, how come it's rare? This was a fairely popular TT in its time. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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Actually, I owned a 701 for several years, until replaced with a Revox B791 in 1980 or so. The 701 was an excellent TT for the price. Two of my friends also bought one and several stores in the Boston area carried it. over the years, I repaired several 701s, brought in by neighbors. It wasn't as ubiquitous as, say, the 1214, but not exactly rare, either. But what I was responding to was your assumption that rarity is a selling point. It may be, for collectors; but for people that buy a TT simply to use it, rarity is (or should be) a deterrant. -- Ron On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 02:30:34 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: Ron - You sure you are not confusing the 701 with the remainder of the 700 series, which followed several years later...the 704, 714, and 721 were very popular manual and semi-automatic tables in the late '70's. The 701 cost $400 when introduced in mid '70's and was a pretty specialized table with nothing else in that price range at the time except audiophile turntables. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 18:34:22 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: Utterly reliable and built like a brick s---house. Well then, if so, how come it's rare? This was a fairely popular TT in its time. Harry "Ron" wrote in message ... On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 03:01:11 GMT, "Harry Lavo" wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ESSE%3AIT&rd=1 I am curious... Why do you feel that a 'rare' piece is somehow more desireable. If anything, it's highly disadvantageous: replacement parts are also rare, service is difficult to find and the fact that it's rare means that most such units have already died long ago. The 701 was a nice turtable for it's time but any that still remain are living on borrowed time. -- Ron |
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