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Last winter I needed a woofer for a Dynaco speaker so I started watching fairly closely the Dynaco speakers being sold on ebay. Some were going for insane prices. For quite a few weeks there were only a few pairs of A25s being auctioned, like only 4 or 5 pairs at a given time, and the prices started going up. One pair went for well over $400 and a few for between $300 and $400. I guess this attracted a lot of people looking to unload their old Dynaco, because since then there have been dozens on ebay with insane starting bids. The highest I have seen was over $700, and a lot of them over $300. None of these has sold. Only a few, with more normal starting bids of around $100 have sold. Bidding usually doesn't go above $150 to $200. Several people are re-listing week after week without lowering the ridiculously high starting bids. It may be a while before the market gets back to normal.
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One of the auctions that is still underway has a starting bid set at $699. The guy apparently thinks his pair are especially collectible because it is an older version with the vent above the tweeter instead of below the woofer and the original Scan-speak drivers. But the prize for craziness goes to the guy with the more "rare and collectible" Dynaco "Lowboys" that were designed for the sonically preferable horizontal placement. He had simply rotated the badges by 90 degrees (which they are designed to be able to do) and photographed them in the horizontal position!
Edits: 06/21/14
email me. I have two new ones.
charles
Thanks, but I am not looking to buy. I was watching ebay for while to 1)get a new woofer for one of my A-35s and 2)I was thinking maybe selling the A-35s. Incidentally, you may recall that one of my Morel MST20 tweeters was blown and I was thinking of replacing it with a Seas tweeter. Fortunately a little more searching on AA and I was able to find a supplier of voice coil for the Morel tweeter. Now the 1-35s sound so good I decided to keep them. I doubt that I could get enough for them since they no longer have the original tweeter (although they sound much better with the Morel tweeters). My son (whose frat buddies blew the drivers) graduated in May so I got the Dynacos back.
I don't see my self building another A25. the woofers are new Madisound replacement woofers. Actually better than the originals.
just sitting in a box.
charles
I wish I had known about them before I bought an old Seas 25 tv-ew.
Thought the same thing.
The market is normal. It's these crazies that have priced themselves out of the market. They are the losers here.....
If the Seller's ask and buyers buy the crazies are us who did not hoard when the marker was paying nothing. I wish I had every piece of Marantz tube gear that ever went through my hands for an average price of $200 per unit. On 9s, alone at today's prices I could be driving a Rolls.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
Amen.... Wish I had bought a few more Citation I and II's back when I could get them for $300. Fortunately I have a Citation II in each system. Oy vey, all the nice little tube amps I have let go for a song after rebuilding them...
Maybe not a Rolls, but the mortgage would be lower....
For the tube gear I PASSED UP I could have retired on!
A friend of mine died in the mid 70's. His widow asked if I wanted all the junk (stereos) that he collected. Me being all of 17 at the time wanted a brand new solid state Marantz. Not a bunch of old tube stereos.
A week later, on the curb was a pile as tall as I was, was a pile of old tube stereos. I estimate that pile to be worth over a $100 grand. And the tubes and parts - another $100 grand.
It's a classic tale. If I had bought one D(not E) Jag available in the early 60s in the classified ads in Road & Track for 5 grand I'd be a millionaire. Ain't hind sight perfect?
People were putting ford Windsor V8's in E-Type Jags so the wouldn't have to deal with the high maintenance Jag engines. Can you imagine if you had scrapped a V12 ...
Dave
This is common. A sudden spike in interest or sold prices and many start thinking Bout funding their pensions or next purchase. Not limited to Dynaco.
Discussions about certain brands and models will sometimes start the spike. I have seen other with a number of brands that only a few years ago and owner had to pay someone to take it away and now it sells.for the price of a decent used car.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
I agree that the prices can fluctuate quite a lot on all sorts of vintage audio. It seems that someone will demand an outragous price for some relatively obscure gear and if somone buys that piece all of a sudden the outragous price becomes the new price. That brings more of the same gear out of the closet and the first few sellers get the benefit of the new price. Over the course of a year or two though the price drops back to what the market will really accept.
I have been collecting Thordarson gear for a decade and have watched the price on one piece, a small SE 6L6 amp, fluctuate over several hundred dollars. I attribute this sudden change in value to one very clever seller who made a creative advt. on epay that in glowing terms (using all the guitar player venacular to describe the "tone") claimed it to be a superb amplifier for electric guitars. That previously $100 amp soon approached $500 in that auction and several subsequent auctions. Well, here we are a couple of year later and just a week or so ago a mint one of these amps went for $150. I didn't bid expecting it would be a waste of time. Who knows? Maybe I will find a match for my mono amp at a reasonable price after all.
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