Best bargain find ever ?

McIntosh MC7200, C34V, Matching McIntosh tuner and CD transport for about $90 out of pocket and a few hours of labor. Also came with a 275 and a bunch of weird McIntosh multizone junk.

My Dunlavy SC-III were free, including a center channel. Came with a Sunfire Cinema Grand amp, though it's got a hum and needs a little love.

Synare 3 analog synth drum pad for $20 ($1k+ on eBay now)

Roland SH-101 analog synth for $45

Handmade Steiner EVI analog wind synth prototype for $175

B&O Beogram 1900 from what amounts to a dumpster

In reply to: 04-05-08: Mnnc

I'd call it karma.

Best ever has been the tuner section for my MA6600. It is just the fm portion, it lists for $800.00. Won in auction for less than $100.00.

My all time best scores were a Mark Levinson 332 fully serviced and redone where the owner thought it was broken, and sold it to me for $900 and it turned out to be the rubber sealant and the amp was pristine and should need no service for a dozen or so years.

My greatest score ever was for $2800 I once scored a Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista DAC, A3CR Amp and Preamp (all heavily modified), a pair of B&W 805 Nautilus (with stands), Velodyne HGS-15, and a PS Audio P1200 (the big ole giant) all in great to perfect condition + some really fancy power cables and sold everything but the DAC and the P1200 in 36 hours making a few hundred bucks (plus selling my gear) and giving my best friend a hell of a deal on the HGS-15. That was a score of,a lifetime

I found two Goldmund turntables at Western Audio twenty years ago. The Studietto was pristine and the Studio had some mods. The owner offered me either one for $1,000 but
would only sell one. I chose the Studietto, but I should have chosen the Studio. I sold it later at a profit.