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Bw 801 250€. Kappa 9 2i 2 500€ Kenwood kt 8300 10€.
As Stephen Mejias <A href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/020408junk/" target=new>found recently</a>, there really are audiophile gems and deals to be had in the "junk" store. Have you ever found audiophile treasure in junk shops?
A Marantz 9 in pristine condition from an elderly gentleman at a garage sale. He is the original owner as evidenced by the receipt he gave me. I feel kind of badly because I paid only $30 for it (he was asking $50). It works perfectly from the circuitry to the tubes. SCORE!
Well, not a junk shop per se, but walked into a Salvation Army Store in Charlotte, NC (the same one R.E.M. bought the toy dinosaurs that accompanied early recordings they made in Reflection Studio), and walked out $200 poorer with two 1977 Large Advents, a Kenwood KA 5500 integrated amp, and some old tuner (a Fisher, maybe?). My daughter still has those Advents plus the other two pair I already had.
An E.H. Scott tube integrated amp and matching tube tuner; the amp is an EL-84 type, about 10W, and it has some of the purest sound I've ever heard on a good pair of headphones; the tuner is easily as good as a Dynaco FM-3. $20 for the pair.
A pair of Onkyo Liverpool D-500 IIs that cost me around £100. Little is known about them but they're around 20 years old and have a frquency response of 35hz–48khz so I can use them for SACD and DVD-A too! The soundstage is wonderful and palpable.
Not a junk shop but online auction.My wife found and bought me a thirty something year old Marantz 2226B receiver on eBay.It is a 26 watter,pristine cosmetics and truly wonderful sound.I have since picked up a Model 2252 that looks as though it is factory new and sounds that way too.I have never been quite so impressed with audio equipment.I really was missing the point...these Marantz receivers from the mid seventies sound like music.Thanks to Saul Marantz for designing such beautiful and musical works of art and thanks to my wife for bringing the joy back to me.
aahhh- I wish - I'm always looking at council cleanups but never find a thing. Actually - once I did find an old Dual turntable if that counts - not working very well though. Certainly no ARC electronics and ProAC or Audio Physic speakers!