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I have several:Marantz 10B at the swap, $25.
McIntosh MC75 at the swap, $12
Vintage JBL towers, (needed refoaming) $20
JBL L65A's (woofers were replaced with no-name woofs) $40, Spent some change on ebay,and got the original woofs.
Yamaha KX-1200U cassette deck, $20.Lots more, but these are the highlights.
What's your story?
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A MAC1900 at a flea market for $100 was a nice find, and a pair of pristine Celestion SL6si speakers for $20. Many more deals on Denon receivers/CD players, Infinity speakers (IL40 @ $150/pr.) and Grado 325i's.
There is nothing like that "Holy Shi7" feeling when you spot a treasure!
I have never seen on piece of Mac gear, tubed, transistor, trashed or otherwise in a thrift store or yard sale. I know it's around, because Myer Emco, where I worked at one time, sold it for decades. I have had amazing luck, but never with Mac.
Those Celestion SL6si are amazing speakers. I hope you kept them. Some things are worth a lot of money because they truly are valuable. That is one of the few speakers that could displace my Spendor BC-1's. When you have a speaker like that, it can make you very lazy about listening to anything else!
Dave
I found it at a church tag sale underneath some other junk. It turns out that it belonged to the pastor. The nuns convinced him to sell it as one of the few "big ticket" items of the sale. It was missing two of the front pushbuttons, but I ordered them from AudioClassics.com for $4.00 each.
I really didn't expect it to work when I got it home but it powered up no problem and sounded excellent! It's driving the Celestions now and it's a magical combination. Those were found at a liquidation sale along with a Denon DRA-465R receiver and a Denon CD player (don't recall the model) for $40.00 total.
That was a good year.
Last fall I saw an ad on Kijiji for solar panels for $500.00. I almost choked because the photograph I was looking at were a pair of Apogee Divas. I called the guy and he said he had just bought the contents of a barn and they were in the lot. No electronics, but he had the aluminum stands. I let him know I would be there to pick up the solar panels in an hour. When they were safely in my car I let the guy know they were actually speakers. He was just grateful to get the $450.00 we negotiated for them.
FREE !!!!
A quad each of 300B / 350B / 274....all in WE boxes, complete with seals, and the cotton-muslin wrapping inside.
They were to be thrown away.
My father grabbed them and they now reside sealed in a box in my study.
I have had several good scores over the years. Some that come to mind:
Pair of Altec Valencia speakers from a pawn shop. $400, immediately flipped for 3x...
Nak Dragon in non working condition for $200
Dual 721q with a Shure V15-III cartridge for $50; kept the cartridge and swapped the table for a Thorens TD318.
Cary 40m monoblocks and an Audible Illusions M3 for $300 !!! (my current system).
Heath AS103 (Heathkit AR3a) for $25
Plus lots more over the years !
Best,
Ross
As far as I know there are no swapmeets around the Boise Idaho area and the thrift stores usually have nothing or someone else has the people working at the stores alerting them when something good comes in, so I've been doing okay on Craigslist instead.I picked up a pair of Infinity RS 2.5s last year for $250. They only needed to have the woofer surrounds replaced and the cabinets refinished.
Last fall I bought a pair of (Craigslist) Infinity Quantum 2s for $50. The lady asked if I would be interested in the rest of her late husband's system and I replied that I might be, but I'd have to see what all there was. She had another gentleman who was interested in getting a receiver who got first dibs on any of the equipment. She called me when she got the stuff out of storage and brought it home.
I got there at the same time as the other guy did and we were both looking through the boxes she had sitting on her garage floor. The guy asked me if there was a receiver in the whole bunch and I told him no, that they were all separates. He said that separates were too complicated so he was not interested in any of it. Then the lady told me that whatever I wanted was mine if I just hauled it all away. I asked her if she was sure about that and she said to just take it all.
I loaded up my truck with a H-K Citation 14 tuner, a H-K Citation 17 preamp (tuner & preamp had a walnut cabinet), a H-K Citation 16 amplifier, H-K 500 tuner, Carver CD player, Pioneer PL-50A turntable, and a bunch of speaker wire and interconnects. It all looked to be in great condition and everything worked except for the CD player. The nice gal just wanted someone to have the equipment who would appreciate it as much as her husband did.
I'm sending the preamp off to get rebuilt this week. The amp goes next. I'm rebuilding the Quantum 2's myself and the late husband replaced the old Watkins woofers in these with the newer poly cone Watkins, so there's two less things to mess with. Anyway, that's my latest findings.
Larry D.
Edits: 04/05/15
A friend emailed me yesterday with this picture. He said he found this on a Brooklyn street the night before. He said it's heavy, any good?
Dave
You kidding?
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In some ways I wish I was...
Dave
I think I detect a noteof irony, (or jealousy?) but yes, your friend made quite the haul, and in a very nice plinth. Did you offer to buy it from him yet?
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Well, yes a touch of jealousy at such an unreal find but I have plenty of good stuff myself. I told him what it is and suggested some routes to getting it running properly, I couldn't in good faith offer to buy unless i was going to pay market value. Are you familiar with that plinth? Would it be worth keeping in that?
Dave
Market value for a non-working unit is considerable lower that fully restored. You might be able to come to an agreement. It is a white elephant to someone not into audio.
Dave
Sure, he's into modern audio and vinyl, he's going to fix it up, just didn't know what it was. Now if he fixes it up and doesn't like it...
Dave
Not familiar with that plinth, but it looks like a nice one, looks to me to be custom made.
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about 1980 I was strolling through the local swap in Santa Ana, and there was a 1954 tweed Fender Champ. Asked how much, he said $25. Bought it on the spot,and used it with my electric guitar, worked great. Recently, I needed the cash,and sold it for a cool $1000. Not bad, even though I wish I still had it.
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A sampling...
Revox G36, working and nearly in spec $35 original tubes
JBL 4311B Pair vgc $20
McIntosh MX113 xclent $25
KLH Model 11 FM Portable vgc $25 in the luggage section
Naim Nait 1 like new $15
Scott 310E working $ 6
211 tubes pair, found in antique store $ 6 sold on ebay for $$$
Flipped a lot of stuff to support the "hobby". Still have some in use (and too much in storage, though slowly thinning the herd)
Unfortunately, haven't found anything like these in several years. Used to find multiple items every time I went hunting. Now it's mostly BPC or VCR's. It's out there...just harder to find.
jD
About twenty years ago I spent a fair amount of time trolling the surplus stores in San Diego for tubes and transformers. At one store I had a nice chat with the sales guy, an engineer from the Ukraine, making minimum wage selling surplus electronic parts out of a dingy warehouse. He was proud of the shop and offered to take me up into the loft where the tubes were stored. The idea was, you asked for a particular tube down in the office, they checked their inventory sheet, and the Ukrainian engineer ran up to fetch them. They charged whatever Antique Electric Supply listed as their purchase price, e.g., the price they paid to buy the tube.
So customers were not generally allowed up in the loft. It was hot, musty, and dark up there and racks of tubes were lined up alongside tables with tubes on them and more boxes on the floor. It was a big jumbled mess with very little order to it that I could see. Anyway, at the far end of one old table covered with boxes of tubes were two Western Electric 300B tubes in the old style boxes from the early 1940s sitting prominently by themselves. I made a mental note, bought a few token tubes to thank him for the tour and left.
A year or so later Sound Practices issue No. 1 came out with its glowing praise for the old triode and I remembered the tubes at the surplus store. I also remembered that Ned Carlson had been selling them for years at about $160 each. I called Ned and he said that someone "offshore" had bought out the entire inventory of his supplier (AT&T) and that there were no more. Happily I had a backup source, so I went back to the surplus store. I found my Ukrainian buddy and asked if I could go up in the loft to pick out some tubes. He said the owner didn't want anyone up there any more and further they didn't list any 300B tubes in the inventory. I told him exactly where they were and he went up to search.
A few minutes later he came back with the two tan boxes with the sealed blue and white tape that said Western Electric on it. I asked him how much and he looked up the AES price. He almost choked! $180 each he said. I told him that was a lot of money, was he sure, all the while hoping the owner wouldn't return and demand the retail price. So he said, yes that's what the computer says, but he would give me a 10% discount for buying both tubes. OK, I said but that sure sounds like a lot as I hurriedly wrote the check praying that the owner wouldn't show up and nix the sale.
As I finished my signature, the owner walked in the door and made his way to the office to see what was going on. I handed the check to my buddy, thanked him, grabbed the tubes, and headed out the door. I was about 50 yds. up the street when I heard a familiar accent. Mr. Sir! MR. SIR! My heart sank. YOU FORGOT YOUR RECEIPT!
That reminds me of a similar story where there was a Ampeg SVT head for 140 bucks on craigslist. A friend of mine was the first one there to buy it. Turns out it was a 1969 version with 6146 outputs. Also turns out it never had been used because of a factory wiring issue. He paid the guy 140 and the phone was ringing off the hook so he takes the amp and is hurrying to the car with it and the guy comes running after him saying hey mister you forgot the cover. Amp had the original cover, was in near mint condition and only needed a slight rewiring job to be basically a brand new first year svt for 140 bucks!
Telefunken Hymnus 5014 console $35
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Prior to that is a little more understandable, many of the deals listed are unreal!
Dave
Someh ighlights:
Acoustat 2+2 - $175
McIntosh MC 275, C22, (4) ML-1Cs - $250
McIntosh C28 - $30
Jadis Defy 7 - $10 (just kidding)
Empire 598 - $45
an on and on and on.....
"I can't compete with the dead". (Buck W. 2010)
Nothing really outstanding in the equipment department apart from a 2-chassis mono amp with UTC LS iron out of a console for $30.
Best steal overall was at a used book store in Florida, Blue and Silver copy of Encores with David Oistrakh and Vladimir Yampolsky in excellent shape for $6.
Dave
....is in the link below. I've had a few good ones since.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Those are some scores! What did you keep of that lot?
Dave
...which I still have.
I used the Micro Seiki BL-51 for a year or two and the Crown/Yamaha combination for about three years.
Easy come, easy go.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
I had to take a peak at you systems. All the equipment you have is stuff that I like. I particularly like the tweaks on you vinyl system!
Dave
All I ever see is cr*p. I think our town is too poor to donate anything of value. Have picked up a lot of good paperbacks tho
Dynaco A25's $10
Marantz 2226b. $30
B&o speakers. $10
The funniest was when I took an old lawnmower to the dump cuz it seemed frozen. Threw it into the pit which is 5 feet below truck level. Attendant runs over and pulls it out at starts it! Back it goes into truck. Then, I spy a wood cabinet in the dump pile right below me, turns out there's a pair of JBL 4401 small monitors laying there. Those go in the truck as well!
"When the demon is at your door, in the mornin' it won't be there no more"
Steely Dan
Mint in box Pioneer RT-707 RTR at a garage sale for $45.00. Funny thing is I don't even use it. Safely stored away just gathering dust.
I think I lusted after one of those when I was a kid. At one point I would have taken it over Barbara Eden! Like either one of those things would really happen:-)
The Pioneer is nice but it ain't no Barbara Eden!
Edits: 04/02/15
Um, yes.
Dave
$6 for a pair of KEF 103.2's in mint condition
WE 555 for 20 bucks.
Terrible condition 10B and 7T for 10 bucks.
Best deal ever was approx 2000 reel to reel decks and 1500 ss receivers and 110 tube hifi receivers/amps/tuners etc for free. 13,000 pounds of it went to scrap though. Flooded basement.
While walking my Dog, I stumbled up a yard sale.............
Mint condition 1969 Webster TP12-1 EF86/6V6 PP mono PA amp.
The 6V6 tubes were RCA, while the EF86 tube was a Holland-made Amperex Bugle Boy.
$20.
I eventually converted it into one outstanding guitar amp!
Steve
Walked into thrift store in town. The owner knows I'm into speakers. They are kinda fugly but turns out to be Aristocrats. As I walk away he says that the home built console goes with them for $80. I check it out but we have to remove the wrap. As we we unwrap it I find goodies. The older gentleman in the shop says thats a nice turntable. I quit wrapping and have him load it into my truck...
$80
Aristocrats with Wolverines
Scott 299D
Fisher Tuner
Garrard 301 Turntable
Garrard TPA10 Tonearm
Haven't had a haul like that since then...
High sensitivity, wide dynamic range, low distortion, and smooth frequency response. Pwk
http://www.itishifi.com
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