I may violate some rules here, mods delete if I am, I have an original first issue Emotiva USP-1 preamp with phono input and UPA2 two channel amplifier I would sell. We 'upgraded' our entertainment center and these pieces no longer fit into it. I am the original owner and each piece comes with their original boxes, remote, power cords, and manuals.
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As I said, I have seen them on eBay for much less.
Do you remember Alma Gates, the retired school teacher who set a world spl record? It was a Ford Bronco and had I think something like 80k watts of power using kicker audio. It set a record over 170 dB.
The best thing I remember from the fog of the 80s/90s audio media was discovering Speaker Builder and The Audio Critic. For the first time I could read logical, professional information on audio products / technology / concepts. I bought a significant amount of back issues and poured through them many times.
https://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic.htm
https://cc-webshop.com/collections/speaker-builder-magazine
https://www.biline.ca/audio_critic/audio_critic.htm
https://cc-webshop.com/collections/speaker-builder-magazine
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I wasn't aware that Alma was a retired school teacher. But I remember the gates family. I remember I bought a used kicker component set from a local guy that competed for them that was down on his luck, and I was just trying to help him out by buying the set. Turns out the tweeters were blown. I reached out to a guy on the car audio forum who worked for a kicker, I think his handle was polecat, and he got me set up with a new component set. It was a wonderful time where the companies were small enough that they actually cared. Things were real and seemed to matter. Today everything is disposable and nothing matters.
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