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Best table to Expect To Find at a Garage Sale

I asked a group of buddies in my local Audio group if any one had a "garage" sale table. No one really had one,that was working.
What do you think you will see at garage sales? I see mostly 80s junkier than junk cheap tables from the usual suspects. I have yet to run into that Vintage Empire, Garrard, Linn etc, no on seems to selling there Transrotator Gravita either because they thinks its just a fancy lazy susan. I never see VPI etc. What have you come to expect?
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pawlowski6132
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80s Marantz TTs.
pmotz
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I've been going to garage sales, estate (tag) sales, and the like for 25 years and I can count on one hand the number of sales where "high end" equipment was for sale. So I certainly wouldn't tell anyone to expect to find high end equipment that way. I have seen quite a few ads here on Audiogon which said the equipment was an "estate" find, but I think it is rare. High end turntables are probably one of the less likely items to find only becuase it's an even smaller sub-set of the general population. I can't recall seeing any high end turntables, just the "junk" you mention. Now vinyl, that's another story. LOTS of that available at garage sales and such.
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jgiacalo
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I picked up a pristine Thorens TD160 at a garage sale last year for $10 that with $30 worth of tweaks smoked my Music Hall MMF5.
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