The AR XA table, bought new in ’69 for around eighty bucks, I believe.
My first Decca cartridge, the Blue, new in ’73 for a hundred bucks or so iirc. Changed my life!
QUAD ESL’s/pair of model II power amps/Dahlquist DQ-LP1 x/o, in the early 90’s, all for $800.
Bedini 25/25, $400 in early 90’s.
Townshend Audio Elite Rock table, $650 in early 90’s. Still have, use, and love it.
Eminent Technology LFT-8b loudspeakers, $2499 five years ago. Seriously under-acknowledged and appreciated (in the U.S.A., at least. In the UK it enjoyed a very warm reception. VPI’s Harry Weisfeld also sung it’s praises.).
Electron Kinetics Eagle 2A, $400 a couple of years ago (found here on Audiogon). The best woofer amp ever made? A favorite of JGH, and now I.
Zeta tone arm, $500 just recently (I already had one, but for five hundred bucks?!). Great arm for Deccas/Londons. The Townshend Rock actually came with it’s armboard drilled for the Zeta.