Panasonic speaker old. Emotiva Unveils BasX MR1L 9.2 Channel Dolby Atmos & DTS: X Cinema Receiver

Emotiva Unveils BasX MR1L 9.2 Channel Dolby Atmos DTS:X Cinema Receiver

The BasX MR1L cinema receiver combines a high performance 13.2 channel immersive surround sound processor, and an audiophile quality 9 channel power amplifier in a single chassis.

The flow of new products continues this summer and that’s rather unusual for the industry and a telling sign that manufacturers are hoping to build some momentum heading into Q4 2023. Sales are strong for some brands but other companies are reporting that things are “soft.” One of the largest parent companies (story forthcoming) just published a dismal earnings report and it is clear that consumers are looking for deals; that is especially true in the home theater category.

Emotiva loves to deliver a lot of value for the money and the new BasX MR1L cinema receiver might be one of their best options yet for those looking for a true workhorse AVR that won’t crap out when the movie or music requires some grunt to drive your surround sound loudspeaker system.

The BasX MR1L cinema receiver combines a high performance 13.2 channel immersive surround sound processor, and an audiophile quality 9 channel amplifier in a single chassis.

Tip: The MR1L (9.2-channel) is the less expensive version of the MR1 (11.2-channel) for those that don’t plan to use that many speakers.

The 1,599 USD asking price makes it rather competitive with the latest AVRs from Marantz and Denon that offer comparable features and power output. The Emotiva BasX MR1L does not offer support for Dirac Live which is becoming a standard feature on some AVRs in the price range, however.

The processor section of the MR1L supports 4K UHD video, including HDR and Dolby Vision, enhanced ARC (eARC), and the latest Dolby Atmos and DTS:X immersive surround sound formats.

The MR1L features six HDMI 2.0b video inputs, all of which support 4K UHD HDR video, and includes support for enhanced ARC (eARC). Included with the MR1L is a measurement microphone and the latest version of EmoQ, our well-regarded automatic room correction system. The MR1L also offers multiple analog and digital audio inputs, and an integrated Bluetooth receiver with aptX.

The amplifier section of the BasX MR1L features 9 channels of audiophile-grade Class A/B amplification, powered by a massive 660 VA toroidal transformer, to deliver superb sound quality and cool reliable operation.

The MR1L exhibits complete control over difficult loads and low impedance speakers, leaving less capable receivers gasping for air. The MR1L also includes a full set of line level 13.2 channel preamp outputs, and of course, the amplifier section can be totally disabled if you wish to use the MR1L as a dedicated surround sound processor.

The BasX MR1L is a true audiophile component, designed and built by professionals to deliver the outstanding performance that both audiophiles and casual listeners can appreciate.

The MR1L also features precision high- speed video switches that route video directly from the selected input to the output without any extraneous processing, ensuring that you’ll continue to get the absolute best possible picture quality from your HD and 4k UHD video sources along with support for both ARC and Enhanced eARC.

Active HDMI Output Switching

As defined in the HDMI standard, if you have two devices with different video capabilities connected to the two outputs on the MR1L, and both are on, your video source will negotiate a video format supported by both, and the MR1L will send that same video signal to both devices. So, for example, if you have a 4K TV, and a 1080p TV, and only the 4K TV is turned on, it will receive a 4K signal; however, if both TVs are turned on, then both will receive a 1080p video signal (because that is the highest resolution format that both TVs support). The same requirement is also true for some other features – like HDR. Unfortunately, many modern TVs and projectors do not report their status correctly to the processor and source device. As a result of this, for example, you may find that you don’t get 4K video on your 4K TV set unless the 1080p TV set is physically disconnected (unplugged).

The MR1L has a special feature that enables you to avoid this sort of problem. On the MR1L you have the option to temporarily disable each HDMI Output individually. So, in the example above, by disabling the HDMI Output connected to the 1080p TV set when that set isn’t in use, you can prevent it from limiting the 4K video signal being sent to your 4K set.

Video Performance

The MR1L features 6 HDMI 2.0b video inputs, all of which support 4K UHD HDR video formats including eARC.

Powerful Analog Devices SHARC DSP supports the latest Dolby Atmos, Dolby Surround, DTS, DTS:X, DTS Neural X, and other popular modes.

Automatic Room Correction

The MR1L includes the latest and most advanced version of our EMO-Q Automatic Room Correction System. EMO-Q® now displays a visual interface which includes graphs of both the measured and corrected room response. Channels can now also be tested, and the results adjusted, individually.

Audiophile Amplifiers

The MR1L includes both audiophile quality Class A/B amplifiers, which feature advanced power supply topology for optimum efficiency, and line level analog preamp outputs. This enables the MR1L to be used with a combination of passive loudspeakers and external amplifiers

The BasX MR1L Is a true audiophile component, designed and built by professionals to deliver the outstanding performance that both audiophiles and casual listeners can appreciate.

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The Best 4K Blu-ray Player

The absolute best picture and sound quality still comes from physical discs (namely, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs), not streaming media services.

If you want movies to look and sound their best through your high-performance 4K TV and surround-sound system, you need the Panasonic DP-UB420 4K Blu-ray disc player. It optimizes 4K video playback for your particular TV, and it makes Blu-ray and DVD movies look their best, too.

What you need to know

If you want the absolute best video and audio presentation of your favorite films, a 4K Blu-ray player is the component to buy.

The number of new 4K Blu-ray players to test is dwindling. Most manufacturers have stopped making new players.

We compare players side-by-side on the same TVs, using a combination of test patterns and Ultra HD and standard Blu-ray discs.

We evaluate the design and build of each player, how easy it is to use, and how fast and responsive the interface is.

The best 4K player for all of your video discs

The Panasonic DP-UB420 provides the best image quality with 4K Ultra HD discs, thanks to a feature that optimizes HDR video for your display.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 200.

The Panasonic DP-UB420 distinguishes itself from most other 4K Blu-ray players in two key ways. First, Panasonic’s 4K players are the only models that offer an HDR Optimizer feature, which adjusts the output of high dynamic range video to suit your TV’s brightness capabilities. In our testing, this feature made HDR content look better on TVs that weren’t as bright.

Second, the DP-UB420 offers the cleanest 4K upscaling for Blu-ray and DVD discs, producing the most detail without introducing extra noise into the picture.

The DP-UB420 offers support for the HDR10, HDR10, and HLG high dynamic range formats but not Dolby Vision. It doesn’t have as many built-in streaming services as some other 4K players, but it does include the big three: Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video.

If you own a Dolby Vision–capable 4K HDR TV

The Panasonic DP-UB820 supports all the major HDR formats, including Dolby Vision.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 500.

The Panasonic DP-UB820 is very similar to the DP-UB420 in performance but adds support for the Dolby Vision HDR standard, which gives you even better picture quality if you also have Dolby Vision–supported discs and TVs. It also has more audio connection options, adds a front-panel display, and is faster in use than the DP-UB420, but it costs significantly more.

If you don’t need 4K playback

The Sony BDP-S1700 is a good basic player that can handle your Blu-ray and DVD playback needs, but it can’t do 4K.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 75.

If you get your 4K content primarily through a media streamer or Smart TV, and you just need an affordable player to handle your old Blu-ray and DVD collections, the Sony BDP-S1700 Blu-ray player can do the job simply and reliably. It offers good video performance and a user-friendly interface.

This player also allows you to access the non-4K versions of many streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, but it can connect to your home network only via Ethernet, not Wi-Fi.

The best 4K player for all of your video discs

The Panasonic DP-UB420 provides the best image quality with 4K Ultra HD discs, thanks to a feature that optimizes HDR video for your display.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 200.

If you own a Dolby Vision–capable 4K HDR TV

The Panasonic DP-UB820 supports all the major HDR formats, including Dolby Vision.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 500.

If you don’t need 4K playback

The Sony BDP-S1700 is a good basic player that can handle your Blu-ray and DVD playback needs, but it can’t do 4K.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 75.

Why you should trust me

I’ve been reviewing TVs, Blu-ray players, and home theater equipment since 2008. In my past, I spent time at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, running the Blu-ray and DVD Benchmark that the team created. With the help of Stacey Spears (co-creator of the Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark test disc), the team devised a testing system to determine which Blu-ray players were actually accurate and which were not, working to show that, even in the digital domain, you can introduce errors because of color-space conversions and other factors.

I’m also ISF-trained for evaluating image quality, and I’m up to date on all of the current and future HDR standards, so I know what to look for when evaluating players.

Who this is for

A 4K Blu-ray player (along with the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs that play on it) is the best way to get the most pristine video and audio presentation of your favorite films. It’s a logical purchase for the person who has paid more to get a higher-performance display—such as one of the more premium picks in our guides to the best LCD/LED TV, the best OLED TV, and the best 4K projector—and wants the best video source to go with it.

Streaming may be the most convenient way to get your TV and movie fix, but it’s not the highest-quality way. The picture quality varies greatly from service to service and is largely dependent on your Internet speed and reliability. A Netflix 4K HDR stream, for example, has a maximum bit rate of 15.6 megabits per second (Mbps), while a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc can average 100 Mbps.

This means that 4K discs can provide more fine detail, less compression, fewer artifacts, and a better-looking image. And whereas all streaming services use compressed audio formats, most 4K Blu-ray discs contain lossless soundtracks.

In order to fully explain why 4K Blu-ray video is better, we must define some key terms:

• 4K or Ultra HD refers to the number of pixels in a display. Whereas a 1080p HDTV has 1,080 lines of resolution with 1,920 pixels in each line, 4K TVs have twice as many lines, with twice as many pixels in each line: 3840×2160 pixels.
• High dynamic range (HDR) refers to video standards that enable higher contrast ratios—or, starker differences between light and dark areas of the screen—than prior technologies. HDR10 and Dolby Vision are the two major competing HDR standards for disc and streaming content. To our eyes, Dolby Vision HDR content looks better than HDR10 content, but HDR10 has wider support from manufacturers and movie studios. Every HDR device, including any 4K display that’s HDR-compatible, can handle HDR10 content. Dolby Vision, on the other hand, is supported by some streaming services and some 4K Blu-ray discs (those discs also include HDR10, though). You need a Dolby Vision disc, a Dolby Vision–compatible player, and a Dolby Vision–compatible display to take advantage of it. Some content, both streaming and disc, is now available in HDR10, yet another standard designed to compete with Dolby Vision, but it isn’t as common as Dolby Vision.
• Wide color gamut (WCG) refers to technology that allows TVs to display a wider range of colors than they could before. Most 4K Ultra HD content has a wider color gamut than regular HD content, matching or besting the color gamut used in theatrical cinema.

On its own, the improved resolution in 4K Blu-ray content over standard Blu-ray content may not be that obvious. Many 4K Blu-ray discs use “2K digital intermediates,” which means that the movie is finished at 2K resolution and then upconverted to 4K. Most Hollywood movies are currently made this way, because finishing in 4K is more expensive and time-consuming.

The more obvious improvements in picture quality come primarily from HDR and WCG, not from the increased image resolution. If you have a 4K TV that does real HDR and can reproduce a wider color gamut, 4K Blu-ray discs will outperform any video you’ve watched at home and will look more dynamic and colorful than what you can see in almost any movie theater.

How we picked and tested

When we originally created this guide in 2017, we researched all of the 4K Blu-ray players available at that time and called in almost every player we could. But these days, the number of new players is dwindling: Some manufacturers (including Samsung and Oppo) have stopped making new 4K Blu-ray players altogether, and others (including LG and Sony) have not introduced new models in many years. The only new models we’re seeing are extremely expensive players aimed at the enthusiast market, which we have chosen not to review.

For our testing, we used multiple copies of the Spears Munsil UHD HDR Benchmark 4K Blu-ray disc in different players plugged into the same TV (using different HDMI inputs). This setup allowed us to compare still images sourced from each player side by side.

We compared the players using a TCL QLED LCD TV and Sony OLED TV, both of which support Dolby Vision, and we calibrated each to be as accurate as possible so that we could see exactly what the disc was outputting on the screen.

In addition to picture quality, we considered the design of the players, how easy they were to use, how responsive the interface was, which streaming services they offered, and how well they upscaled lower-resolution Blu-ray and DVD movies to a 4K resolution.

Although many Blu-ray players also contain streaming apps such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, we’ve found that these streaming platforms are often slower and less user-friendly than what you can find in a dedicated media streamer or Smart TV. So, while we appreciate the inclusion of streaming apps, it is not a major criterion in our selection of the best Blu-ray player.

Our pick: Panasonic DP-UB420

The best 4K player for all of your video discs

The Panasonic DP-UB420 provides the best image quality with 4K Ultra HD discs, thanks to a feature that optimizes HDR video for your display.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 200.

If you want the highest quality from your Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, the Panasonic DP-UB420 is the best player we’ve tested. Whereas 4K content looked essentially identical through the other players we tried, this model’s optional HDR Optimizer feature actually improved the image on most HDR displays. The player supports the HDR10, HDR10, and HLG high dynamic range formats (but not Dolby Vision), and it contains apps for Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video.

HDR Optimizer is the difference maker. Most movies presented on 4K Ultra HD discs contain some highlights that are too bright for today’s displays to handle. A display can deal with these bright highlights in a number of different ways; commonly the display clips the highlight so the entire highlight becomes white, and you lose detail. With the DP-UB420 you can select the type of display you have, and it will reduce the brightness of those highlights so that you can see them better.

In our tests, when watching 4K HDR content on a Sony A1E OLED TV, we were able to see more details in bright highlights through the DP-UB420 than we could with other players, as well as more vivid colors that were washed out or were only white on other players. And HDR Optimizer did not affect the other areas of the scene: In scenes that did not contain highlights that were too bright for the TV’s abilities, HDR Optimizer made no difference, but when it did need to come into play, it was quite effective.

Most important, HDR Optimizer lets you select your type of display (LCD or OLED), which changes how it works. When I tested it using a TCL 8-Series LCD/LED TV (a very bright HDR display), HDR Optimizer made fewer adjustments than it did when mated with the less-bright Sony A1E OLED TV. With the TCL TV, it modified the very brightest highlights while leaving the rest of the image as it was.

With the 2018 Vizio P-Series TV, which uses its own tone mapping to avoid clipping highlights, HDR Optimizer still improved the image by preserving color saturation in those highlights. There is no technically correct way to handle highlights that a TV can’t show, but the DP-UB420’s HDR Optimizer created an image that we thought looked better compared with those of other 4K players.

This player does a better job with standard Blu-ray discs and DVDs. When upscaling Blu-ray and DVD discs to a 4K resolution, the DP-UB420 offered the clearest, most detailed chroma scaling we’ve seen. To save space, Blu-ray discs reduce the amount of chroma, or color, details that they store, so the player has to re-create that. This Panasonic player produced an image with more details and fewer artifacts. The result wouldn’t be mistaken for 4K HDR content, but the Panasonic DP-UB420 makes this lower-resolution content look as good as possible.

The DP-UB420 offers support for the HDR10 format, although currently few discs that use this format are available. However, it does not support Dolby Vision discs (see Flaws but not dealbreakers below). If you need Dolby Vision playback, look at our upgrade pick.

The DP-UB420 has the essential features we look for. There are two HDMI outputs, one for video and audio and another for audio-only (if you need to send audio signals to an older AV receiver that doesn’t support 4K HDR video), plus an optical digital audio output. It includes both Ethernet and 802.11ac Wi-Fi for network streaming and easy firmware updates.

The DP-UB420 supports Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and YouTube for streaming. It can’t play high-resolution SACD and DVD-Audio discs, but it does have two USB inputs that support high-res files (including FLAC and DSD).

Overall, we think the DP-UB420 is designed for the hardcore videophile who wants the absolute best picture quality and is willing to give up some secondary audio and streaming features to get it.

Flaws but not dealbreakers

The Panasonic DP-UB420 doesn’t support Dolby Vision. While there are a lot more Dolby Vision–capable TVs than there used to be, the number of discs that support Dolby Vision is still fairly low. Many titles that stream in Dolby Vision are not released in Dolby Vision on disc. The HDR Optimizer feature on the DP-UB420 does a good job of optimizing HDR for an individual display, even if the result isn’t quite as good as Dolby Vision might be. If you really need Dolby Vision, we advise you to get our upgrade pick.

The remote is just okay. It has lots of small buttons and no backlighting so it’s hard to use in the dark. It can also be confusing to learn, without lots of practice, which button you need to hit during playback (Option, Pop-Up Menu, HDR Setting, and the like) to adjust a setting.

There’s no front-panel display. You can’t see the time or track/chapter info, but such a feature isn’t useful if you keep the player inside a cabinet anyway. In addition, the user interface isn’t as good as what other companies such as Sony offer; you have to navigate through more menu layers to find what you need, and no customization is available, but overall it’s fine.

Upgrade pick: Panasonic DP-UB820

If you own a Dolby Vision–capable 4K HDR TV

The Panasonic DP-UB820 supports all the major HDR formats, including Dolby Vision.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 500.

If you have a Dolby Vision TV and want support for Dolby Vision discs, get the Panasonic DP-UB820. This player offers everything we like about the DP-UB420, including the excellent HDR Optimizer feature to make standard HDR10 discs look their best on your display. On top of that, it adds support for Dolby Vision HDR, so owners of Dolby Vision–supported TVs and discs can enjoy the best possible playback.

Unlike our former Sony picks that supported Dolby Vision, the DP-UB820 automatically enables and disables it on a per-title basis, so you don’t risk having reduced image quality if you leave the setting on or off by accident. This makes the DP-UB820 more intuitive to use on a daily basis.

The DP-UB820 adds a front-panel display and more connection options. If you don’t plan to tuck away your player, the front-panel display can provide helpful, instant status info. Like the DP-UB420, the DP-UB820 has two USB ports through which you can play high-resolution audio files, but this player adds a 192 kHz, 32-bit digital-to-analog converter and 7.1-channel analog audio outputs to appeal to the more audiophile-oriented listener.

If you don’t need 4K playback: Sony BDP-S1700

If you don’t need 4K playback

The Sony BDP-S1700 is a good basic player that can handle your Blu-ray and DVD playback needs, but it can’t do 4K.

Buying Options

At the time of publishing, the price was 75.

Although this is a guide about 4K Blu-ray players, we recognize that many people get their 4K content solely from streaming and don’t plan to buy any new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs. If that describes you, but you’d still like to have a player around to handle your existing disc collection, the Sony BDP-S1700 offers good standard 1080p Blu-ray playback and DVD playback with a user-friendly interface for an affordable price.

It requires a wired connection to your network. The BDP-S1700 includes the non-4K versions of streaming apps such as Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu—but it can connect to your network only via wired Ethernet, not Wi-Fi, which may affect where you can place it or force you to run cable. But we recommend using the streaming apps in your Smart TV or dedicated streaming media player anyhow, since they’re probably faster and more stable.

Because the BDP-S1700 has a slower processor than more expensive players, the user interface can lag at times—but all the budget players we tested suffered from this same issue, which applies mostly to launching and navigating the streaming services.

We have not seen as many reports of this Sony player freezing up as we have for pricier Wi-Fi–equipped players like the BDP-S3700, which is why we chose to recommend this one as a reliable budget option.

The competition

Most mainstream AV manufacturers have either stopped making Blu-ray players altogether or have not introduced a new model in years. The new action is coming from smaller companies making very expensive players aimed at the AV enthusiast.

This includes the Magnetar UDP900 (3,000) and UDP800 (1,600) and the Reavon UBR-X200 (1,800), UBR-X110 (1,000), and UBR-X100 (900). These high-end players are designed to fill the void left when Oppo Digital discontinued its line of universal disc players (which also supported playback of high-resolution SACD and DVD-Audio discs). They use the same MediaTek chip that the Oppo players used and have similarly high build quality.

If your old Oppo player has died and you want the closest possible replacement, one of these players may be worth a look. But they are simply too expensive for most shoppers, so we did not test them. Our Panasonic picks deliver everything most people need for great Ultra HD Blu-ray playback at a lower price.

Here are some other 4K Blu-ray players that are still available:

The LG UBK80 has only a single HDMI output, so we eliminated it from consideration because it’s less compatible with older audio gear. The LG UBK90 has two HDMI outputs and supports Dolby Vision, but when playing back discs, you have to manually choose a 24p or 60p refresh rate. Other players change automatically depending on the content to avoid judder, so with this LG model you might see motion artifacts if you leave it in the wrong mode. This is a bewildering design choice because it requires you to have deep knowledge of video playback settings in order to watch a movie properly.

The Panasonic DP-UB9000 is that company’s highest-end player that includes audiophile features such as balanced XLR audio outputs and two additional tone-mapping options for projectors compared with the DP-UB820. It also has higher-end construction and a backlit remote control, but it typically costs twice as much as the already expensive DP-UB820 does, a high price for features that few people will need.

Panasonic also offers the cheaper DP-UB154, which supports the HDR10, HDR10, and HLG high dynamic range formats, but not Dolby Vision. It has only a single HDMI AV output and lacks the HDR Optimizer feature and streaming functions of our top pick. It’s worth spending a little more to get the UB420.

The Sony UBP-X700 and UBP-X800M2 were our previous 4K Blu-ray player picks, but over time people experienced problems with these players locking up and refusing to play discs. One of our units did this and then started working again later, but it’s a common enough issue that it’s concerning to us. Since the Panasonic DP-UB420 offers improved image quality with most discs, and since Dolby Vision on Sony players is a pain to use, we think the Panasonic is a better choice now.

The Microsoft Xbox Series X and Xbox One X can play 4K Blu-ray discs in HDR10 with Dolby Atmos audio, but they do not support Dolby Vision with discs. Navigating the user interface with a game controller isn’t a good experience, so if you want to use the Xbox for watching movies, we’d recommend buying an IR remote from 8BitDo. The image quality with SDR and HDR10 content is the same as any other player we tested, and if you already own one of these consoles for playing games, then spending 20 on a remote to watch movies is by far the best deal going. But we wouldn’t buy one as a dedicated disc player for movies.

The Sony Playstation 5 Disc Version can also play 4K Blu-ray discs, but doesn’t support Dolby Atmos or Dolby Vision. Sony makes a first party remote for the PS5 for watching movies or streaming media, which is recommended if you plan to use your console for this purpose. The PS5 won’t be as good as a dedicated player because it doesn’t support the best audio and video quality, but if you own a Playstation 5, the addition of a 30 remote will allow the console to work just fine for watching 4K discs.

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FILE PHOTO: A logo of Panasonic Corp is pictured at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, October 2, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo

(Reuters). UK battery startup Nexeon will supply high-energy silicon anode material to Panasonic’s newest U.S. plant starting in 2025, the companies said on Monday.

The use of silicon-rich anodes will enable Panasonic battery cells to store more energy and charge more quickly, the companies said. The greater energy density also gives Panasonic the option of making smaller, lighter packs with similar range to current battery cells.

Abingdon-based Nexeon will supply the material to Panasonic Energy Co’s 4 billion De Soto, Kansas plant, which is slated to open in early 2025.

Among Nexeon’s competitors in developing silicon-rich anodes are two U.S. startups: Group14, based in Woodinville, Washington, and Sila Nanotechnologies, based in Alameda, California.

Founded in 2006, Nexeon has raised more than 260 million and was most recently valued at 350 million, according to investor website PitchBook.com. Among its corporate investors and partners is Korea’s SK Group, which makes batteries and battery materials.

Group14 has raised 650 million and was most recently valued at 3 billion, according to PitchBook. Its corporate investors include German automaker Porsche, as well as SK and BASF. Group14 has a deal to supply silicon anode materials to Porsche affiliate Cellforce.

Sila has raised 935 million and was most recently valued at 3.3 billion, according to PitchBook. Corporate investors include Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, Samsung and Chinese battery giant CATL. Mercedes is scheduled to be Sila’s first automotive customer in 2025, starting with the EQG electric SUV.

(Reporting by Paul Lienert in Detroit; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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All of our items are sold As Is. There are no written or implied guaranties. All of our items are sold Where is. The successful bidder is responsible for removing their purchased items from the sale. It will be the bidders responsibility to determine the sale condition on each item they purchase. All of our auction sales are final. The successful bidders are responsible for removing all purchased items immediately following the auction. All items will need to be loaded by the successful bidder, we do not provide loading help. Shipping can be arranged on any item.

A bid on an item constitutes acceptance of the item and terms of the auction. Your bid is a binding contract; non-paying bidders will be blocked from future auction at the discretion of the auctioneer. Make sure your contact info is complete and correct on the bidder sign up page. Payment is due on completion of the auction, invoices will be sent and online payment options are available.

Items will be available for pick-up at the stated/posted times only for the auction. Items paid for but not picked up will be forfeit after 30 days, no refunds given.

If you need shipping please be aware that the cost of shipping may be more than what the item cost. All items ship from zip code 84109, you can go to USPS.com for estimates of cost.

Your bid constitutes acceptance of the terms, you are also agreeing to pay for and pick up items in the stated times.