Items for sale without remotes.
Interesting topic in the sense who’s still using stock remotes....in this day and age where everything can be controlled by a single app. I have not used original remotes supplied with my electronics in over a decade. All electronics in my system are controlled by Harmony App. Last thing I want to do is clutter my man cave with remotes 😉 |
This is an interesting topic. I have been seeing a ton of stuff being put up for sale by TMR Audio without remotes. Even more expensive stuff. But I agree with whatjd. Any audiophile who loses a remote is just stupid. What sort of events lead to something like this? One idea that comes to mind is stolen equipment. |
This issue was discussed in 2018 in the following thread, which you also started: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/items-for-sale-here-and-on-ebay-without-remotes My comment in that thread: One reason a seller may not have the remote, at least in the case of an older piece, is that at some point in the past he or she may have left its batteries in too long and they leaked. Which might have created such a mess on the terminals and elsewhere inside that it was thrown out. Another possibility is that a remote was discarded simply because it no longer worked, and the owner chose not to replace it. Or the receiving transducer or related circuitry in the component no longer worked, and the owner erroneously assumed that the remote itself was at fault. Although it hasn’t happened to me too often, over the years I have experienced multiple failures of both remotes and the related receiving circuitry in components. Regards, -- Al |
