Best Find Ever???

This is really a 2 part story! About 12 years ago, I was visiting my mother when she lived in NM. I was bored and picked up a thrifty nickle newspaper. I saw an advertisement about a single JBL speaker with supertweeters that was about 4 feet tall for $100.00. The ad just didn't sound right, so I thought "what the hell" and called. What the guy said on the phone made no sense about the supertweeter, but he said the speaker was from about 1960. I had my mother take me to the guys house and we opened the door and saw a mint JBL Hartsfield! I gave the guy the $100.00 he wanted, and then had to ship it for $400.00 back to Chicago! The guy really was more concerned that someone buy it who appreciated it then the money.

I used that speaker for about 8 years until all my vintage audio collection was sold to pay lawyers fees during a nasty divorce. Who knows, maybe it was Kharma for only paying that guy $100.00 but maybe not. There were 2 assets that were being considered by the court to be immediately sold to pay off the attorneys. Those two assets were my vintage gear and some Panera Bread stock that I had been holding for a couple of years at a loss (while the rest of the market was steamrolling ahead). To make a long story short, the gear was sold at less than half its value by the court and I was crushed. Meanwhile, the Panera Bread stock went up 800% in the next 18 months. The moral of the story is be careful what you pray for!

That settles it...I'm never getting married (again)!!

I'm currently using a NAD 7250pe receiver that my dad found in a thrift shop for $40. It sounds better than their current line up to me.

Shortly after it came out, I found a VPI SDS advertised in the Pennysaver for $150. My attention fully aroused, I called the number and asked if it was still available. The seller told me, "Yes", and that she would sell it for $100 if I showed up right away with the cash. Needless to say I ran over there with the funds as fast as the Toyota would carry me. When I got there, I found the SDS in an unopened box, along with a completely disassembled audio system of mega proportions. The seller explained that the SDS was part of a system that her husband had been building, and that she was selling all of it off to whoever arrived with cash. I asked her why, and she told me that her husband was on a business trip and that she had only a limited amount of time before he came home. She had just found out that he had been cheating on her with a business associate, and she wanted to deprive him of the only thing that he truly loved. I nodded, plunked down the benjamin and got out of there as fast as the Toyota would carry me. A friend of mine asked me if I felt any guilt over this transaction, and after I thought about it for a second I said, "Nah, the guy got what he deserved. You can't properly pursue more than one vice at a time."