Best Find Ever???


I am curious to hear what the best find you ever had was. It doesn't have to be limited to audio equipment, though best audio find around here gets the 'bull-of-the-woods' I suppose. I read somewhere of a guy who got a Lexicon MC1 from his local pawn shop for $150 because the doofus behind the counter thought it was an equalizer or something. What's the retail on one of those, around $6K? I am either too new at this, too slow, or too much like Charlie Brown to score something like that.

I did have one, not audio. Back when I was young and dangerous and into motorcycles, I had a friend back his truck up to the house with about $10k worth of somebody's entire flattrack program in it. In addition to the bike, there were spare everythings (extra engines, extra wheels, parts, gears etc.--most of it new!) He swore it was legit; I paid him $750, but made him promise if the real owner ever came for it he was giving me back my money and told him I was turnin' him in. I nervously sat on it for about 6mos., (rode a bunch of wheelies) and then sold it for about $5.5k.

One caveat though, if you are going to lie, try and at least make it believable. Thanks. Chris.
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This weekend, I picked up a working Yamaha T-1 tuner in a thrift shop for $19.95. But I have a friend who found some "room dividers" in a NY-area thrift shop a few years ago. He bought them for $70, replaced the transformers in the base, and now has a mint-condition pair of KLH Model 9 electrostatics. That's my favorite story.
My wife. She literally doubled my music collection when we combined our libraries and it has since doubled since then (in the past year). She is a true music lover and aworld class woman.

Everything else I've paid fair market value for (no steals). :-( I do find the odd album at the thrifts for $1 in VG++ condition that might be for $16-32 in VG++/NM- on eBay, but that's about it.
My find is not something a bought at a steal but a little known audiophile piece I picked up.

I bought a B&K TS-108 tuner. I listened to it in a shop selling used audio equipment. It sounded great so I bought it for $100.

I did research and found out it was made by B&K only in 1990-91, and sold for about $400. The year after that it was still made in Buffalo, NY but by the new Fanfare company. Fanfare added remote and balanced outputs and it sold as the F-1 for $1500. Stereophile reviewed the B&K look alike and said it was the best tuner they ever heard.

If you can find one buy it, as it is a steal.