Why so many amplifiers for sale?


I remember not so long ago when these things were the hot ticket item, touted by all the reviewers as the next-big-thing, giant-killer, blah blah blah. Once again, all of the hype proves to be just that, and now I count literally hundreds of them for sale. So what's the deal? Nobody likes amplifiers anymore? Moving onto some other world beater of a component, I suppose? Go on, tell me it's just because so many of them were sold, hence the vast sea of available product on the used marketplace. I don't buy it. Just like everything else, they've come and gone. Their fifteen minutes of fame are now over. CD players, too. Have you seen how many of those are up for sale? Tossed into the classifieds like a weathered mistress. I knew it was coming, and that's why I've been sticking to singing in the shower. None of this fly-by-night hobby plunging for me. I'm much too smart to get caught up in that.

And by the way, am I still in business? I've been e-mailing myself all week, and get no response.
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You guys are sooooo '90's! I've got all my sources connected to my pc. Then I have the pc call my cell phone to hear the playback. Yeah, it sound like shit but it is waaaayyyyy cool!
Dan_ed, so you must be the guy I see walking by with the PC on his shoulder, pressed up to your ear? A boombox for the new millenium, I presume?

My father has taken great interest in this thread, and wanted me to share his latest innovation. It still requires the use of one amp, but he's got the entire house now wired (or strung, as it were) for sound. You see, during the remodel, he had the electricians run a 16ga string equivalent throughout the house, and into five separate rooms, thus allowing him to place four of his amplifiers up for sale right here on the 'Gon. A prize to anyone who can pick them out of the classifieds.

Given the complexity of the network, he opted to use a bucket at the home base amp in lieu of the more customary cup. But now, whenever he wants music, he can pick up the cup hanging on the wall in any of the five rooms, hold it to his ear, and take in the tunes. In addition, he can simultaneously use the cellphone on the other ear for a sort of Cecil Taylor-ish stereo effect. He did say that the cats must be sequestered during the string--he used Litz, by the way--installation process, or they will invariably become permanent wall-dwellers. Unfortunately, Mingus the Persian now must be fed through the light socket in the guest bedroom, poor little guy.
Naw, I'm one of those guys you see walking down the street listening to my tunes through my cell phone while my shadow is going through all kinds of modern dance gyrations cuz' in my dreams I can dance like that, too!

Have you tried sending in a ferret after Mingus? That won't be mis-tracking dad will be hearing!