In my case it would be a tie between a Yamaha CT 1010 I bought second hand for about $30 in the mid eighties, and a Sumo Athena, which I picked up around 1992 for $100. Neither are the best of course, but I still use them every day, and have built the rest of the many system iterations over the years around the phonostage built into the Sumo. She's put up with all other replacements over the years, until seeming to say "all right, that's enough. It's my turn again". |
@tbaradet1 Nice! |
Was purchasing a beautiful Luxman L-100 in 2002 from a music teacher a few towns over. While there I was admiring some of his other pieces & we made a deal on his Sansui, AU-9500. Both great components. We're shaking hands on the way out when he points to a box on the floor. Tells me "why don't you take those too, now you'll have a complete setup". Box contained a pristine set of 11ohm Rogers, LS3/5A. I offered to purchase those as well and he replied, "I have bigger speakers now, you take those" pointing to a room filled with Gershman & ARC and a Baldwin, Grand Piano. There is no better deal than free, lol. What a wonderful old gentleman with great taste in Audio.
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