posted on December 1, 2003 09:06:06 AM new
I put up a 'vintage', what I thought, was a stereo receiver. Got an email from, what sounded like an angry ebayer, all in CAPS
THIS IS NOT A RECEIVER! ITS A TUNER!
Its already got a bid on it.
In pictures, I showed the back, the model, BUT, duh me, I put in description: I don't have speakers at the moment to hook it up.
Ok I'll need to write to the current bidder then, tell them, then end it? or revise it, but to revise, I'll have to cancel their bid?
argh
Any help, would be appreciated! I'm going to have to go out pretty soon, but will be back
thanks! (again )
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posted on December 1, 2003 09:21:16 AM new
A tuner is a device that simply receives radio signals (AM and/or FM).
An amplifier just amplifies an input signal before sending the signals to your speakers. They require an input device, such as a CD player, turntable, or tuner.
A reciever will incorporate both of these into one unit. A receiver not only receives radio signals, but it also amplifies them so they can be sent to your speakers. Receivers also perform switching between inputs, which is sometimes considered the job of a "preamplifier." High-end audio setups usually break these functions down into separate components, but for consumer-grade usage, a good receiver with all these functions built into one unit will do a perfectly good job.
posted on December 1, 2003 09:22:05 AM new
Without seeing the item I can say that if it requires speakers, it is a receiver. If all it has 2 RCA output jacks on the back, it then is a tuner only. A receiver will have volume, tone, balancce and other controls on the front as well.
posted on December 1, 2003 09:27:42 AM new
If it is a tuner, and not an amplifier as well, you might do well to email bidders to explain, cancel the bids, drop starting price to below $10.00 to get lowest listing fee, turn off automatic relist in Vendio (or be ready to revise quickly if it relists automatically) and change the ad.
If it does not have speaker outputs, then the guy is probably right.
The change will cost you 30 cents plus 25 cents for gallery if that was chosen.
posted on December 1, 2003 09:28:04 AM new
Hi, thanks you guys... what I actually DO know about are old radios, tube type, which I DO collect. The stereo stuff, I leave up to someone else in this house
ok here's the auction.... please don't laugh where I put in, I don't have speakers to hook it up too..... we do, only everything is still packed and we've lived here over 6 months NOW
posted on December 1, 2003 03:40:28 PM new
I'm back... ok, going to try and test it right tonight. I surely don't want to deceive any bidders. I got this one at an estate auction, and no one was bidding on it, so I did and got it for $3.00! So, I did plug it in, the light came on, and turning the 'tuner' knob the meter moves on it.
I don't know, now that it has another bid, but I have time, I think 5 days, and I think I can get it straightened out long before then, and notify the bidders, and go from there.
I really appreciate all the help.
Tom, yeah, actually, I thought it looked really cool. I have a new Tivoli, and it looks almost like this KLH, wood cased, small, and GREAT SOUND (but of course the Tivoli has a speaker on one side ) Tivoli is a Bose competitor.
thanks all... I thought I had done all the research on this before listing... but still, I am glad this one was caught way before it is over.
Thanks
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posted on December 1, 2003 04:55:42 PM new
Ok, couldn't wait, found an old headset with the jacks that would fit in the back of this thing, and through the headset I got the radio! AM or FM I have no idea!
any ideas? this is getting crazy!
I know I'm being a PITA, but this is another one driving me nuts!
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posted on December 1, 2003 05:41:43 PM new
Why would you NOT hear the radio??
Ralph is confused by yer observation! A receiver is a COMBO -Tuner+Pre-AMP+Amp...hook up a turntable & ya have a snazzy set to play all yer Tony Orlando & Dawn LP's
posted on December 1, 2003 05:59:57 PM new
LOL! how bout some ABBA?
I don't know... a headset is a speaker, it worked, heard sound
I'm confused on being told (not the person from here, I think it was here!) that wrote this morning telling me that its not a receiver, as I put in the auction, but a tuner.
I hate stereos, why couldn't they just stick with the AM tube radios???????
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posted on December 1, 2003 07:58:33 PM new
Near.....I don't know if it is a tuner or a receiver. I want to know if you were the model on the tile?
"Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is "Political Correctness.'" --Charlton Heston
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