Prowler573
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R.I.P. Gossamer!!
As most here that are familiar with my presence on the forum know, I am a bit fond of Diamond Audio gear.
Right alongside Kenwood's eXcelon products.
So - most of the aboved-described grouping know I have run a Diamond Audio M6mkII12D4 for a great long while.
First powered with an eXcelon KAC-X401M followed more recently by a Diamond D61500.1 sourced from excelerater here on the forum.
As in ~
And life was good.
Here a few weekends ago I allowed a friend of mine to borrow my car to take her kids to their cousin's bday party.
Said party was being held at the house of a 3rd party who is friends with the bday cousin.
After the party wound down and my friend was loading stuff into my car to bring home with her the 3rd party's son wandered over to the back of my car.
For some reason this little reject saw fit to reach out and push in on the dustcap to my sub!
So - when my friend calls me (which she did immediately) to tell me about it, because she is apprehensive about the way I'm likely to react, she ends up making it sound like the entire dustcap was crushed in inverse of how it should be.
Naturally I quickly blow a gasket and demand to speak to this kid's mother.
After telling her how disappointed I was in her son's behavior and (not so) calmly asking her what she intended on doing about it she quickly agrees to replace the sub. (Cool!)
So - I present her with two options ~
Buy me a BNIB, @ full retail D612D4 from the local authorized DAT dealer where my M6mkII came from for $330 + tax....
or
gimme a check for a lesser amount and I can buy this BNIB TDX 12 from a source I trust which allows for a twofold benifit:
(1) She's out less money and (2) I get a sub I would prefer over what I currently have anyway.
So, I meet her a few days later, she writes me a check, and I promptly go to the nearest branch of the bank she uses to cash it thus preventing her from changing her mind and stopping payment on the check. (Am I too cynical?)
Anywayz...check's cashed, deposit's made, $$$'s PayPaled to excelerater for his BNIB, never-seen-power TDX12D4.
So - because this dingbat kid saw fit to do this (not that big of a deal overall, frankly):
...today I ended up with this:
A box.
What's in the box?
Nicely packaged!
Just plain sexy...
So - because of some rather minor cosmetic to my M6mkII I upgraded to a brand-freggin'-new (NewOldStock, really) TDX for absolutely zero money out of pocket.
Actually, from the same source I ended up with a used but in great shape D61500.1 and a BNIB TDX12D4 for less than $400/shipped out of pocket.
That's one heckuva deal no matter how you look at it!
Thanks, excelerater, for helping me to upgrade significantly beyond the eXcelon 10s and eXcelon monoblock I used to run.
Right alongside Kenwood's eXcelon products.
So - most of the aboved-described grouping know I have run a Diamond Audio M6mkII12D4 for a great long while.
First powered with an eXcelon KAC-X401M followed more recently by a Diamond D61500.1 sourced from excelerater here on the forum.
As in ~
And life was good.
Here a few weekends ago I allowed a friend of mine to borrow my car to take her kids to their cousin's bday party.
Said party was being held at the house of a 3rd party who is friends with the bday cousin.
After the party wound down and my friend was loading stuff into my car to bring home with her the 3rd party's son wandered over to the back of my car.
For some reason this little reject saw fit to reach out and push in on the dustcap to my sub!
So - when my friend calls me (which she did immediately) to tell me about it, because she is apprehensive about the way I'm likely to react, she ends up making it sound like the entire dustcap was crushed in inverse of how it should be.
Naturally I quickly blow a gasket and demand to speak to this kid's mother.
After telling her how disappointed I was in her son's behavior and (not so) calmly asking her what she intended on doing about it she quickly agrees to replace the sub. (Cool!)
So - I present her with two options ~
Buy me a BNIB, @ full retail D612D4 from the local authorized DAT dealer where my M6mkII came from for $330 + tax....
or
gimme a check for a lesser amount and I can buy this BNIB TDX 12 from a source I trust which allows for a twofold benifit:
(1) She's out less money and (2) I get a sub I would prefer over what I currently have anyway.
So, I meet her a few days later, she writes me a check, and I promptly go to the nearest branch of the bank she uses to cash it thus preventing her from changing her mind and stopping payment on the check. (Am I too cynical?)
Anywayz...check's cashed, deposit's made, $$$'s PayPaled to excelerater for his BNIB, never-seen-power TDX12D4.
So - because this dingbat kid saw fit to do this (not that big of a deal overall, frankly):
...today I ended up with this:
A box.
What's in the box?
Nicely packaged!
Just plain sexy...
So - because of some rather minor cosmetic to my M6mkII I upgraded to a brand-freggin'-new (NewOldStock, really) TDX for absolutely zero money out of pocket.
Actually, from the same source I ended up with a used but in great shape D61500.1 and a BNIB TDX12D4 for less than $400/shipped out of pocket.
That's one heckuva deal no matter how you look at it!
Thanks, excelerater, for helping me to upgrade significantly beyond the eXcelon 10s and eXcelon monoblock I used to run.
