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Squire by Fender Standard Series Stratocaster in great used condition for sale. I am the original owner and bought this guitar new in April 2015 (was probably made around 2014). It has hardly see much use in the last 4 years but still plays great! The finish has a few small scratches as would be expected and the pick guard has yellowed slightly over time (see photos). Pickup configuration is Humbucker - single coil - single coil (HSS). Great for someone starting out who's looking to invest in a good quality instrument! Includes the original tremolo arm, allen keys and extra spring. Will install some fresh strings upon purchase so she's ready to jam! If you have any questions or would like more details please feel free to shoot me a DM. Thanks for Looking! R3,800

The RG is the most recognizable and distinctive guitar in the Ibanez line. Three decades of metal have forged this high-performance machine, honing it for both speed and strength. Whether you favor a hardtail (fixed) bridge or the industry-leading locking tremolo system, the RG is a precision instrument. Features • neck type Wizard III / 5pc Maple/Walnut / Neck-through. • top/back/body Nyatoh wing body. • fretboard Jatoba fretboard / White dot inlay. • fret Jumbo frets. • number of frets 24. • bridge F106 bridge. • string space 10.5mm. • neck pickup Quantum (H) neck pickup Passive/Ceramic. • bridge pickup Quantum (H) bridge pickup Passive/Ceramic.

SX Standard Series Custom Handmade Stratocaster Style Electric Guitar. In great condition. Fretboard like brand new. I just replaced the strings, strings are brand new. Comes with a shoulder strap. R1500. Cash. No shipping, must collect from my house in Cambridge, East London. WhatsApp me if interested, I do not check messages on here. Kyle: 083 500 5870.

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Fender Squier FSR Affinity Series Telecaster MN Natural The Affinity series is considered the flagship of the Squier class. Affordable and aimed at beginners, the venerable Squier Affinity series remains the best-selling line of tools for retailers worldwide. Many musicians have started their musical journey with Squier Affinity Telecaster - adored for its single-cut shape and sleepy sound! The iconic Fender Telecaster has always been characterized by a single-coil double-scan configuration. Squier FSR Affinity Tele follows this classic formula and offers a double dose of standard single-coils Squier, which have enough projection and dynamic range. Use a three-position switch to isolate each sensor; whether you want bright grasshopper tones or rounded sensor clarity at the neck. The middle position of the switch offers the best of both sensors! Guitar in excellent condition, plastic still on some of the parts. Comes with Gigbag Price slightly neg. Whatts app to 0724724728

Still in good condition, with original box and all accessories. The battery has worn a bit from age but still works. It can be replaced if you wanted to. Professional-Grade Airband Transceiver – Pro Series The Vertex Standard VXA-220 Pro VI is a compact, stylish, solid and submersible hand-held transceiver providing communication on the International Aircraft Communication Band. Additionally, it provides receive on the Navigation Band. The VXA-220 boasts 700 mW of clean audio output and it also provides 8.33 kHz synthesizer steps for the new narrow-band channel plan. The VXA-220 displays information with our exclusive Omni-GlowTM display back-lighting for minimal degradation of your night vision. NOAA weather band monitoring, 8-character Alpha/Numeric Display, 150 Memory Channels, 100 “Book Memory” Channels, VOX, and Side Tone are just some of the many features provided. The channel configurations can be easily reprogrammed in minutes using the optional PC Programming Kit and your PC. The VXA-220 Pro VI comes packaged with: antenna, desktop charger, NiMH battery, and headset adapter (CT-96).

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This RG Series is the best guitar i have ever owned. It has a bridge and neck humbucker (standard) pickup with an extra mid pickup. It has a 5-way toggle switch and a tone and volume knob. It has an detach-able whammy bar with screw in. 24 Frets featuring the Wizard 2 neck from Ibanez.

• Colour: Deep Twilight • Top Material: Poplar Burl • Side Material: Ash, Okoume • Fretboard Material: Jatoba • Neck Material: 5pc Maple, Walnut • String Configuration: 5 • Hand Orientation: Right Hand • Body Type: Solid • Body Finish: Low Gloss • Electronic Type: Active • Inlay: N • Number of Frets: 0 • String Nut: Plastic • String Nut Width: 1.85 ” • Neck Finish: Low Gloss • Neck Scale Length: 35 ” • Neck Radius: 15.74 ” • Hardware Colour: Cosmo Black • Bridge Pickup: Bartolini BH2 • Neck Pickup: Bartolini BH2 • Special Electronics: Ibanez Custom Electronics 3-Band EQ and 3-Way Mid Frequency Switch • Pickup Configuration: HH • Bridge Type: MR5S Bridge • Neck Construction: Neck Through • Pickguard: N • Control Knobs: Dome • Machine Heads: 2/3 • Series: BTB

Up for sale today is this beautiful Squier SE strat, one of the "hidden gems" of the Squier line. Check out the video in the comments for a demo of what this little beast sounds like. Significantly higher quality than today's Affinity and Bullet series, sitting just below the Standard series strats on the Squier hierarchy, these guitars came with a full-thickness agathis body and a stunning, SUPER comfy satin finish maple neck with nice thick rosewood fingerboard and medium jumbo frets. This strat has just received a full pro setup, frets precision-leveled, crowned and polished to a mirror finish for smooth, super low action (around 1.8mm on the low E, through to 1.75 on the high e). The fretboard edges have been rolled to provide a really comfy, high-end playing experience. Absolutely effortless to play, and sounds like a strat is supposed to. In excellent condition save for a few surface scratches and standard play wear (no major chips or dings). Comes with a Fender gig bag. Based in East London but happy to courier nationwide at buyer's cost and risk (an additional R200 should cover it). R3500.00 Whatsapp or email only, please.

Complete with hot cherry strap and as new gig bag new price r4990 designed for players seeking an affordable, stylish and versatile instrument, the bullet® stratocaster® sports the classic looks and tone that made the strat® one of the most popular guitars of all time built in indonesia highlights include a thin and lightweight body, an easy to play " c" shaped neck profile, three single coil pickups with five way switching for sonic variety and a tremolo bridge for expressive string bending effects i t e m s h o w n: bullet® strat® with rosewood fingerboard, fiesta red m o d e l #: 0310001540 c a s e g i b b a g: none product specs body basswood body finish polyurethane body shape stratocaster® bridge 6 saddle vintage style synchronized tremolo bridge pickup standard single coil strat® color fiesta red commodity code 9207901000 configuration s s s control knobs white plastic controls master volume, tone 1 (neck pickup), tone 2 (middle pickup) country of origin i d (indonesia) dimensions 4 00x14 50x44 50 i n fingerboard radius 9 5" (241 mm) fret size medium jumbo hardware finish chrome middle pickup standard single coil strat® neck pickup standard single coil strat® neck shape " c" shape number of frets 21 nut material synthetic bone nut width 1 650" (42 mm) orientation right hand pickguard 1 ply white pickup configuration s s s pickup switching 5 position blade: position 1 bridge pickup, position 2 bridge and middle pickup, position 3 middle pickup, position 4 middle and neck pickup, position 5 neck pickup position inlays white pearloid dot refinement neck material maple refinement neck shape c shape refinement pickups modern scale length 25 5" (64 77 cm) series bullet® string nut synthetic bone truss rods standard tuning machines standard die cast comes with full warranty and trade ins will be considered delivered anywhere in south africa for r250

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What’s not to like about this cute little bit of kit? iFi’s new ZEN Stream is a small streamer designed to be partnered with any USB DAC – such as the company’s own ZEN DAC V2, more of which later. It is uniquely flexible for its £399 price, allowing direct connection to services such as Spotify Connect, Qobuz and Tidal Connect (with decoding of MQA mastered material), UPnP, AirPlay, and Roon, via the matching app. It is compatible with a wide range of audio formats up to 384kHz PCM and DSD256, and its open-source architecture means that more functionality is promised via future firmware updates. A series of coloured LEDs indicate the sampling rate and format in use, but lack of space precludes visual display of your album artwork. It’s powered by an external plug-top 9V DC power supply, and there are dual USB sockets plus a S/PDIF coaxial RCA output. If partnered with a ZEN DAC V2, it powers the latter via its USB socket, and iFi supplies the correct USB cable. The ZEN Stream is designed to work with any USB DAC, which is great because you don’t have to commit to another DAC when you buy this streamer. For example, many people have their specific favourites that they’ve built their systems around and don’t want to change them. b'/xc2/xa0' I also tried iFi’s matching £299 ZEN DAC V2 (pictured directly above and below) running its latest firmware during this review. It’s a compact 32-bit desktop design, built to partner USB sources, so there is no S/PIDF coaxial or optical TOSLINK optical input. Although usable as part of a hi-fi system, it’s very much aimed at headphone users wanting a high-quality DAC/headphone amp at a keen price. Both 6.3mm unbalanced and 4.4mm balanced Pentaconn headphone sockets can be found on the front panel, plus a balanced 4.4mm line output round the back. A standard set of unbalanced RCA audio outputs is fitted, with a switch to toggle between fixed and variable operation. The former seems to sound slightly better than the variable and is around 3dB louder too. There’s a Power Match option for headphone users to optimise output for IEM and over-ear headphones, plus a TrueBass feature to boost the bass performance for a more even response between high and low frequencies. TrueBass only affects the headphone outputs. b'/xc2/xa0' I found a small but noticeable difference in sound quality between the high and low Power Match options, by the way. The higher gain option sounds sharper and more immediate. When I increased the volume level on the lower gain setting, it sounded smoother and less immediate. Headphone power output is claimed to be 280mW (unbalanced) or 380mW (balanced) into headphones with an impedance of 120 to 600 ohms. Even using some old low-efficiency AKG K340s, I could achieve fairly high volume levels with the volume around the 2 o’clock setting. Both these iFi products run fairly cool. 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The concerto was marvellous to hear, with full-bodied, weighty strings that had a lovely richness and warmth. Only intending to sample a few minutes, I listened to the end, so involving was the result. On TIDAL, MQA titles generally sounded best. The Decca Solti recording of Wagner ‘s opera Parsifal was wonderfully vibrant. Non-MQA titles sounded good but usually a tad flatter. I then tried the Kubelik Mahler 7 on TIDAL MQA, and it sounded very good – albeit not quite as impressive as the ripped CD. The recording had a tad less depth and fractionally reduced dynamic contrast when streamed, though the results were still close. It’s interesting that a 16-bit, 44.1kHz ripped CD can still stand its ground against hi-res formats, and that happens with pretty much every streamer I’ve heard, not just the ZEN Stream. Bringing the ZEN DAC V2 into the proceedings, and of course, I found it to be no match for the onboard digital converter built into Auralic’s Altair G2. As the latter is way more expensive, so this hardly came as a complete surprise. The Altair G2 offered greater refinement and effortlessness, as you would expect. Streaming Beethoven ‘s Sonata for Violin and Piano Op 96 on ECM with Yuko Shiokawa and Andras Schiff, it had a smooth unforced naturalness that was highly beguiling. The ECM recording is beautifully open and unexaggerated yet detailed and clear. Still, with the iFi pairing, the balance between violin and piano was nicely managed, and both instruments were reproduced superbly. It wasn’t that far behind; you could still listen to it, having heard the Auralic, all the same. b'/xc2/xa0' Trying a quick blast of Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus on headphones through the ZEN DAC V2 and its TrueBass option gave the sound a bit more weight and low-frequency power without sounding boomy or thick. If I were using headphones, I’d engage TrueBass all the time. Some users have complained that the volume control becomes unbalanced at very low settings. I found evidence of this – the left channel cuts out before the right with the control close to zero. But it’s very slight and would only be an issue with very efficient headphones. I usually partner my laptop with a 2014 Shanling H1.1 DAC, but – having been seduced by the choices offered with streaming – I’d largely neglected to listen to my ripped CDs over the last two or three years. Too much to listen to! But, using the laptop with the ZEN DAC V2, I was forcibly reminded how impressive properly ripped CDs could sound. I like to engage the acoustic equalisation option in iTunes, feeling this improves the reproduction of many recordings. The effect is subtle but beneficial. THE VERDICT IFi’s little ZEN Stream streamer is a seriously impressive new streamer, offering great functionality and fine sound in a small package at a low price. Its genius is that it will work with any DAC with a USB connection, which is most these days. Yet it’s also a very pretty picture together with iFi’s own ZEN DAC V2, both visually and sonically. Together they give an engaging and entertaining sound with more detail than you’d expect, plus a lot of operational flexibility in terms of driving headphones. I became rather taken with both of them and reckon they’re both something of a steal – whether you’re looking to use them in your main system or as a desktop or office companion.