Author: Mark Alexander

I’m doing everything possible to stay as far away from social media as I can this weekend. To that end, I tackled one of my post-retirement tasks early.

My office closet had become unmanageable. Last weekend I pulled everything out and started going through shit.

The big boxed items hoarding the most space were the two vintage receivers  as well as a vintage amp I’d posted extensively about here but were no longer in use. I’d been planning on putting them all up on eBay for over a year, but they had to be unboxed, photographed, and in the case of the amp, the speaker terminal board needed to be reattached. I kept putting it off because it was all just too much.

Well my friends, now they’re up (here and here in case you’re interested). And one has already sold.

I also realized my old Yamaha CD player was sitting on a shelf in the bedroom closet, and BAM! That’s listed now too.

While there is some sentimental attachment to all this gear, it feels damn good to be getting it out of here—especially since I lost my mind last week and bought another Minidisc deck:

I should have sought this one out initially, but until I stumbled across a review on YouTube I didn’t know it even existed. It’s got all the functionality of the Sony deck I bought, but in addition it has a headphone jack, pitch control, and—most importantly—a keyboard jack so track/disc names can be easily input. Will I eBay the other one? Probably not. It’s always good to have a backup…