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Friday night on my way to pick up son I stop at the Goodwill, nothing as usual. As I walk to my car I notice a turntable in the dumpster - Thorens TD145 with Grace F9 (E or L ?) cartridge. Works fine after putting belt back on! The Grace stylus rides and looks fine and sounds fantastic. If it is worn or has a bad suspension I sure can't tell.Saturday stop at a different Goodwill. Crummy little console looks odd. A Fisher 400 is stuffed into the hole where something solid state used to be. It slides right out. I ask if it's OK to buy just the receiver, they say sure and mark it down to $19.99. Its dirty and cigarette tar coated but looks like it will clean up nicely. Makes up for the last 100 times I've stopped and found zilch. Persistence pays off. Never give up!
Gary
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I gravitate towards the furniture section to inspect the consoles now on the rare ocassions I break down and go to thrifts (recovering thriftoholic). This after finding one at a yard sale for $25 with a mint Fisher 800C...
Nice Turntable, I bought the same turntable at a used audio place 12 years ago. Best turntable I've owned, it has never skipped or repeated, unless I stomped near it, It came with a Grado cartridge. My girlfriend pulled an old sanyo out of the trash so she could listen to her fathers albums, not the greatest turntable but it works well. I lent her one of my Pioneer SX828's so she could use it.
That Fisher 400 is a sweet receiver. Bought one myself on eBay a couple years ago and it stopped working about three months after I bought it (bad solder joints in the power switch). Had the thing recapped and essentially overhauled during the repair, installed a quad of Electro Harmonix 7868's, and the sound through a pair of Cornwall I's is nothing short of amazing. It was a little rolled off at the extremes when I got it, but now it has amazing clarity at the top and a surprising amount of punch in the low frequencies for a 25 watt per channel receiver....while maintaining that 'lush' mid-range.Best audio I have heard in some time....and it was cheap, too, albeit not as cheap as your's.
If I figure a gallon of gas for each Goodwill trip and I count the 1000 other times I've gone without finding anything then they only cost $3000!
Gary
LOL - Last year I scored a McIntosh MC240 for $30 (all original tubes, 7 of 10 cosmetics). It only took me 20 years and 5000 garage/yard/estate sales to do it. I do believe it would have been cheaper to just buy it outright - but hey - I like the thrill of the hunt. Found a TON of other good stuff in the process so what the heck. Nice Score!
Sounds superb. Base is separating in back so I'll make a new one.
Gary
That's a nice TT and nothing beats free. I picked up my second Thorens at a garage sale just before last Thanksgiving. Came from the original owner. Thorens TD125 MkII and cover, with SME 3009 and newly mounted Shure V15 III, an extra NOS Shure cartridge and an NOS stylus. Everything was in original boxes and had been packed away for 20+ years. Had to pay for mine though—$25. I'm going to try a photo upload but not sure if it's gonna work.
I have the same table. I do get why the put the 16rpm speed on it. I have yet to see a 16rmp record and I am a serios record collector! I would have much rather had a 78 speed. My 125 has a 3009 Series II Improved tone arm but I'm missing the little weight on the right side of the tonearm the does the downforce. It looks like I will have to order from England to get it. I think I payed $20 for it.JICO makes a replacement SAS stylus for the V15 II that they have been buzzing about for a while on the Vinyle Asylum. I have a V15 II and a V15 IV that I was going to give the JICO a try on.
My main table is a TD124 that I built a custom plinth for. I got it out of a console with EV Wolverine LT12's for $50. It had an ESL (by Ortofon arm) that I replaced with one of those Sonus Formula 4's. I'll try to put up a picture tonight.
Gary
I look forward to the picture. I think the Woverines I have are LT12s. They are a 12" Triax (tweeter and wizzer). Do you still have the ESL?
Nice score! The only problem with the Grace is that it could ruin you for any other cartidge and needles are made of pure unobtainiun!
Just kidding.. Nice score .
See my reply above if you want to feel better!
Gary
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