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Biscuit said:
View attachment 228628I have an older Sony receiver and Bose speakers, both with spring clips. I have used bare wire as pictured on left, but have had issues. Has anyone used a double sided speaker wire with pin connectors on each end, as pictured on the right? I am wondering if anyone has used this option and whether there were any issues with the spring clips vs bare wire? If so, any recs on best pin connector speaker wire brands?
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It’s been a long time, but the only issue I remember was that the pin connector wasn’t grasped as solidly as the bare wire. Only an issue of the equipment is moved around though
 
Is anyone here in the USA planing on any purchases from the EU in the next few months? If so, are you planning on buying earlier in case Trump does impose an EU tariff or are you rolling the dice? I’m hearing of more EU manufacturers upping their US in the near term in anticipation.

I’m planning on purchasing a new Transrotor, late spring to early summer, and a potential 20% price hike would be a painful lump to take. Maybe causing me to look at a different brand (which would suck). Or I can move early and put the table on a credit card, but t I’d really rather not do that (I try to keep my credit load light as a rule, and just save up for hobby stuff).

Thoughts?
 
SnowmaNick said:
Is anyone here in the USA planing on any purchases from the EU in the next few months? If so, are you planning on buying earlier in case Trump does impose an EU tariff or are you rolling the dice? I’m hearing of more EU manufacturers upping their US in the near term in anticipation.

I’m planning on purchasing a new Transrotor, late spring to early summer, and a potential 20% price hike would be a painful lump to take. Maybe causing me to look at a different brand (which would suck). Or I can move early and put the table on a credit card, but t I’d really rather not do that (I try to keep my credit load light as a rule, and just save up for hobby stuff).

Thoughts?
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Personally, I'm not actively looking at anything but the threat of tarrifs would only inspire me to pull the trigger if I had cash in hand and was going to pull the trigger soon anyway. But it wouldn't inspire me enough to finance something. This is all luxury stuff. There's a lot of luxury items that I can't afford. If the price of something goes up, I can wait a little longer, or accept that I can't afford that thing.

But honestly with the threat of tarrifs, luxury goods are least of my concern. I'm much more worried about hikes of 15%+ on my day to day living while watching my investments crash at the same time.
 
displayname said:
Personally, I'm not actively looking at anything but the threat of tarrifs would only inspire me to pull the trigger if I had cash in hand and was going to pull the trigger soon anyway. But it wouldn't inspire me enough to finance something. This is all luxury stuff. There's a lot of luxury items that I can't afford. If the price of something goes up, I can wait a little longer, or accept that I can't afford that thing.

But honestly with the threat of tarrifs, luxury goods are least of my concern. I'm much more worried about hikes of 15%+ on my day to day living while watching my investments crash at the same time.
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Oh i hear you on that. Honestly, one of the few things that is helping me keep from blowing a mental gasket is this stuff. That and my family. So thinking about a luxury hobby item, it’s kind of like therapy right now.
 
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