Thank You, John!

Back in November of 2018, about six months after acquiring a set of the classic Technics Micro Series components, I wrote of my frustration in locating the special connector that came with the preamp back in 1979 that was used to elegantly connect the preamp with the power amp and the tuner. It was, of course, possible to use regular RCA connector cables, but it was messy in comparison.

Back in 2007 when I sold my last set of Micro Series components to my buddy John, the set included one of these connectors. (If I ever thought I'd own another set of these components, I would've held onto it, knowing even then how rare these things were, but I was enamored of the behemoth Kenwood receiver I'd acquired a couple years earlier and could never see myself getting rid of it.)

A year ago John casually mentioned that he wasn't using the tuner any more—much less the connector, so I immediately asked if I could buy the connector back from him.

"Sure," he said. "If I knew where it was."

He had recently moved to a new condo and much of his "junk" as he called it, was still in boxes. I asked him every few months if he'd run across it, but he was still unpacking and hadn't seen it.

Then out of the blue last week I got a text from him that said, "Found it," and a picture:

I asked how much he wanted for this piece of Unobtainium and he replied, "Just cover the shipping."

It arrived today, and I am one happy guy.

Elegant. (I consider Technics the Apple of its day.)