The Endangered Repairman

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4. They bought a Bose

complete junk. There are plenty of excellent stereo systems out there and they can be repaired. They cost a lot of money- thousands. However there is an alternative and that is the used market. The peak of 2 channel receivers was probably the seventies were sound and build quality was excellent. There are tons of high quality hi fi equipment on ebay. I recently picked up a Harman Kardon 330B for $50.0 It has 20 watts a channel. You can get any of their fine receivers for less than $150. Sansui, Marantz, Yamaha all made excellent equipment. Individual pieces(amp, tuner preamp) from Dynaco are all available and you may pay a bit more for them but sound quality is really excellent. A good quality amp/premap may cost you $600-$7000 but sound quality equal to that in the new market is $2,000. There are many excellent CD players to be had and also terrific speakers. You have to know what you are looking for. Turntables are alive and well and nothing sounds like a good turntable. MP3 are terrible.