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What's your best 'Score'?

Story #1

Few years back at a neighborhood garage sale.Lots of wives at one of the first ones I stopped at. Big sale. I asked "got any speakers?"She pointed towards the back of the garage. "Back there, haven't put them out yet".Back in the shadows lay a big dark pile. I noticed first off a M&K sub with two 12" speakers.That's the only brand I recognized, besides a Sony CD player. There were 2 surroundspeakers, two tall mains, a turntable, and a couple other things I can't remember.
Didn't' recognize the speaker brand...something called B&W.
"How much for it all?"  "$160 bucks, but you have to take it all.""Done" I put a sold sign on it, and continued walking the neighborhood.An hour later I came back. Damn those speakers were heavy. I carried the surroundsout to my car. There were 3 or 4 guys who zoomed over to me, "Are you the guy whobought the speakers?". '"Yea, hey will you guys help me carry the big ones?" They started offeringme much more than I paid. "No thanks". What a smug ass I must have appeared.

"Do you know what you've got?"  "Not really, but I do own M&K equipment so I know I mademy money back on that alone." They just hung their heads.
Well, that's the day I started my audiophile journey. MSRP total for everything was $7,700.Wish I could remember the model numbers on everything. The main speakers were powered, I rememberthat much. Kept the sub. Cleared around 4K selling it all off.

Story #2.

8,00 square foot outbuilding. Filled to the brim. Took them a year to get to the first wall. 300 movie projectors, 120 short wave radios, 7 cars, you get the picture.So I'm 20' up the wall, standing on a precarious stack of boxes. I reach up above me and grab something small andheavy. It say Western Electric. My heart started pumping. Trying to keep my cool, I hand it down to the sellers. "Put if on the pile".  I bought the pile for $200. Sold the W.E 555 tweeter to a guy who flew from Korea to get it." $4,000.Then in broken English he says, "I have 100 of these now". That's $400,000 in tweeter? WTF?I looked him up. Can't remember his name, but his dad owns one of the top 3 Audio amp manufactures. Their amps start around 100K.
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tweak1
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+1 elevic

Reminded me...

some 40 years ago I had just gotten a really good post car bj and mj buzz at the time. I had dropped the woman off some 10 minutes prior, and went on about my morning, coming across an open-air art festival in downtown Hollywood, FL. I was wearing a Pioneer T Shirt that said Incredibly Good.


I stopped at one both that was loaded with gorgeous blown glass perfume bottles. As I was admiring the bottles I heard someone ask 'How incredibly good are you? It took a minute to register as I was really into looking at/into the bottles, LOL. Well, I guess you know the rest. I don't recall her name, but her dog's name was Ivan.
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rvpiano
2,708 posts
 
About 20 new Sheffield Direct Disc LP’s for $7.99 apiece when Tower Records went out of business.
elevick
2,638 posts
 
dill, were you itchy for a week after???
dill
2,545 posts
 
Yes, the cream really helped a lot!
gmosley
132 posts
 
I got a pair of Quicksilver Mono Blocks from a homeless man for $ 20.00 bucks Bad tubes ( cracked glass ) he was pushing them around in a shopping cart. Gave a woman $ 200 bucks for a storage locker that her dad had, he had died, she did not want anything in the locker, because her dad was a hard core audiophile and neglected her as a child, she told me he was a business owner in San Francisco,Well when I opened the locker!!!!! I was in the Golden age of audio. I had to sit down and collect my self. 4 pairs of Altec Voice of the theater, one pair of Hartfields, Ten Cabinets of JBL's various models, 8 JBL D 130 woofers. Electro-voice kw 15" in the Box 4 pairs and tons of records! Another score a Sansui 9090 db at Goodwill with the owners manual in the box for $ 15.00's and the best SCORE to me was two mono blocks and pre-amp by Nelson Pass at a Estate sale,the Young lady was the executor of the estate and just wanted the "JUNK" cleaned out, so I HELPED HER and she was happy with the $150.00 for the PASS junk, That I hurried to my car with!!!! 
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