I have to share this. Found these beauty’s at two different garage sales last week, got them for $10.00 per pair. The holey basket had one where the surround was separating from the cone and the other was perfect. I have only seen pictures of the black non rib cones holey baskets. The AKAI had surrounds partially separating from the cones. All have good surrounds, not stiff. I have glued the surround on them. What a great find!
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Some time ago, in a now distant galaxy, I found a pair of fully functional LS3-5As for $25 or some similar trivial asking price. On the tag it said "Sound Good" - I was thinking "I bet they do". It was a Friday yard sale on the way to work and I went anyway, was late to work as a result.
I can beat that, if you go back to an even further distant galaxy, maybe 35 years ago, eastern Massachusetts. Came home with a pair of 12" Tannoy concentrics in cabinets for something like $15. Guy said "I dont know what they are, but they sound great". I didnt know either, bought them on suspicion due to the cab construction/heft - until I opened the backs and saw what every audiophile yard sale goin' flea market huntin' could possibly wish for, as luck would have it.
More recently, even in this galaxy, I picked a pair of Klipsch Heresys for $52 - but it was 30% off day at the thrift store, so I got the discount off their $26 each tags. Cabs got a few minor but nasty dings from I assume their handling, but they seem to work fine.
I can beat that, if you go back to an even further distant galaxy, maybe 35 years ago, eastern Massachusetts. Came home with a pair of 12" Tannoy concentrics in cabinets for something like $15. Guy said "I dont know what they are, but they sound great". I didnt know either, bought them on suspicion due to the cab construction/heft - until I opened the backs and saw what every audiophile yard sale goin' flea market huntin' could possibly wish for, as luck would have it.
More recently, even in this galaxy, I picked a pair of Klipsch Heresys for $52 - but it was 30% off day at the thrift store, so I got the discount off their $26 each tags. Cabs got a few minor but nasty dings from I assume their handling, but they seem to work fine.
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I stopped at a community yard sale where I found a Dynaco mark 3
with a make offer tag so I offered $1. It was thoughtful that he mentioned
I might not be able to find parts for it. On another occasion I picked up
a pair of Phillips 9762M drivers for $5 . But on one occasion I was disappointed
that a dead Audio Research D76a that I had bought just for parts wasn't
dead it just had a short caused by a lose nut from one of the transformers
that had fallen onto the circuit board. Funny that nut hadn't caused any
damage just a few sparks.
with a make offer tag so I offered $1. It was thoughtful that he mentioned
I might not be able to find parts for it. On another occasion I picked up
a pair of Phillips 9762M drivers for $5 . But on one occasion I was disappointed
that a dead Audio Research D76a that I had bought just for parts wasn't
dead it just had a short caused by a lose nut from one of the transformers
that had fallen onto the circuit board. Funny that nut hadn't caused any
damage just a few sparks.
Once I bought a factory wired Dyna FM-3 for $1 at a garage sale. Worked perfectly.
Does finding two HK-430 receivers in mint condition on the side of the road count?
Does finding two HK-430 receivers in mint condition on the side of the road count?
I found 2 old Lab Volt power supplies. One had a switchable output of either .5 to 40V 2A DC, 0 to 40 V 2A AC or
30 to 300 Vdc @ 100ma. Then the next one had a bunch of parts and my memory may be wrong but I think it had
2 34v 2A center tap transformers each with a 2 A variac and one 5v 10 A transformer. And a 0 to 130 VDC 2A power
supply all for $5 .
30 to 300 Vdc @ 100ma. Then the next one had a bunch of parts and my memory may be wrong but I think it had
2 34v 2A center tap transformers each with a 2 A variac and one 5v 10 A transformer. And a 0 to 130 VDC 2A power
supply all for $5 .