The Moscode 600 output was 300 wpc.  
One advantage of living in an area with rich audiophiles, especially when people like me couldn’t afford the equipment we really wanted, was that they often upgraded and sold off their “old” stuff at great prices.  In the early ‘90’s, I had been looking for 3 years to upgrade to a serious turntable but couldn’t afford the level of TT I wanted.  One day my local salesman called me at work and said get over there right now.  He had a customer who fell in love with the looks of the Basis Ovation TT with a Graham tone arm.  He traded in his Linn LP12 / Ittok LVII that he had owned for 2 years but had never played.  I bought the LP12 for $900 which was even cheap back then.  It is still my turntable.

My guess about the two customers who disappeared is they either died unexpectedly or went to prison for a very long time.

I was a rep for a major U.S. manufacturer and got a message from the district office to visit a lady having problems with her product. It was WAY out in the middle of Nowhere, Texas.
Problem? Easily solved.
I showed her how to plug the power cord into the wall socket.

I worked with a guy back in the 70's that bought the Bose 901's and wasn't going to open them until he bought a house... 6 years went by and we all got laid off...

You are THE storyteller and I don't miss even one of your posts. You'd think I might be jaded by now, but noooo, you reinvigorate my audiophile jones every time.

I wrote to Harvey 'Gizmo' Rosenberg when he wrote a column for Listener Magazine ~ he encouraged me to make a small pentode amplifier. Well that first tube amp blossomed into a pair of 5W parafeed endgame monoblocks. Harvey definitely marched to a different eclectic tune, but he was quite the character indeed :).

The only thing that could have made this show better would have been if Herb Reichert was also there, mostly just listening, nodding, and grinning, but maybe telling one or two of his own tall audiophile tales! 😂❤❤❤ Thanks, Steve. It’s always a pleasure. And give The Mrs. our best!

Nebraska - great album.  Perfect mood music for when you're sitting at home alone in the dark polishing your gun.

"People are strange when you're a stranger"

I am 76 and I was told by my uncle who bought me McIntosh equipment when I was 13 and he said two things, (1) to be satisfied with your system you have to have the attitude that there is,  "No HiFi like my HiFi"
and (2) ask yourself, do you listen to the music or do you listen to the system? That was 63 years ago and it as true today as it was then.

Years ago I had a regular monthly task to do for a club I was involved with, it required a couple of hours of concentration. So after the wife and kids went to bed I would play Springsteen's 'Nebraska' followed by Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush'. They're both similar albums - stripped back, minimalist. The kind of songs that get into your head. I could fiddle away at my task and listen to the music without being distracted. Great memories. Even now 30 years later I still play them together.

The stories regarding large objects blocking the speakers prove that some people have more money than sense.

These stories are hilarious..its greatly appreciated.

Harvey was a showman.  The PT Barnum of hi-fi.  You couldn't help but like him, in spite of it all.  Funny story-- Mark the man Levinson was importing a tube amp (for his Red Rose brand); Harvey listened and quipped something to the effect: "Congratulations, Mark, you've managed to make a tube amp sound like a solid state."  HR's obsession with the Futterman circuit-- few would have kept it going the way he did.  Turning Julius' small home built OTL into a four chassis monster no one could afford!  Harvey left the planet way too soon, for sure.

Trust me, it's not just "Audiophiles" that are weird.  Right now I'm helping my widowed neighbor sell off her huband's huge collection of (mostly brand new) woodworking tools.  Everything from small items like chisels... all the way up to $5000 Powermatic table saws and lathes and drill presses, etc.  A few years ago he tore down their old--regular garage--and spent probably $150,000+ dugging out a giant basement--for his custom / dream woodworking shop--then building a VERY nice garage on top of that.  Massive electrical panel to run all the tools.  Stocked it with every convceivable power tool and hand tool you can image--including a huge collection of very cool--vintage and used--hand planes, etc, etc, etc.  Problem was: He wasn't actually a carpenter / craftsman / woodworker.  He was a psychiatrist... that was INTERESTED in wood working... and planned to do it when he "retired"... but was killed a good 15 to 20 years early.  So... he's gone, the tools are just sitting down in the basement shop gathering dust... and his wife doen't know anything about them or what they're worth or how or where to get rid of them.  So... men... husbands... don't do this to your spouses.  Have an exit strategy.  And don't buy shit that you don't need TODAY--right now--that you actually can USE and ENJOY.  Because for a lot of us... tomorrow will never come.

My friend  now sadly gone to cancer  Gene Santoro a  NYC based music critic wrote for a well designed and artfull  high end audiophile magazine called "FI"( as in hiFi) wonder if anyone remembered that magazine ?

Love the diaper story! I just literally LOL'd. Thanks for a good laugh Steve!

Back in the mid 70"s a friend of mine told he had just heard a stereo system that was the best money could buy. This retired businessman had purchased the equipment from all over the
world, only the best of the best. His records came from Germany only, from one company. I was invited to have a listen. After listening to records for thirty or so minutes he asked my opinion.
Oh dear, I moved from foot to foot. He saw I was hesitant. Its ok you can say what you like. It's not the equipment it is the room . After explaining the problem. He thanked me. Six months later
we are invited back to listed to the improvements. Wow, what a change. He had employed an acoustic engineer an architect and construction company. Built, a separate room from the house
designed just for listening to music. It was the best I had ever heard. I made a comment; this would have cost more than the stereo system. The reply....no the room was only half the price of the
Stereo system. I went home to my soldering iron.

How can one be totally clueless and call yourself an audiophile and not know the basics of room interaction with your system?  
More money than brains.....

Love your content Steve! Todays offering took me back to my days at Video Concepts (Tandy Name Brand Retail Group, RIP) in the late 80's. My manager had sold one of our "Better" Technics rack systems and the buyer was having difficulties.  I was asked if I wouldn't mind taking a look.  I drove over and was astounded to find that instead of inserting the zip cord into the spring-loaded speaker terminals on the speakers, this gentleman had carefully wedged the wires between the recessed plastic that housed the terminals and the speaker cabinets.  Will  never forget.