j chauvin
04-23-2008, 03:31 PM
I hit a long awaited neighborhood sale today.
My nephew got a jump start and hit this sale last night and pulled away with a NAD 3020 and 4020 for $55.
I headed out with my brother and dad this morning -not knowing what to expect since they had opened the night before.
My dad scored a Denon DCD-810 for $5. It looked as if it was hardly used. My brother scored a Denon DR-M400 at a different sale across the street for $5. (He actually did a body block on me BEFORE he saw the deck.) Not bad and actually kind of enjoyable to see others get some nice equipment. Goodness knows I don't need anything. ;)
Shortly later, and running out of time before we had to head out to meet Mom and my sister for lunch (it is my brother's birthday today). I found a really cool portable. JVC 9475JW -receives shortwave and switches for normal and high bias cassettes. It needs quite a bit of cleaning up, but I got it for $12. See pics below. (Note the very cool vu power meters!)
We went to lunch and returned for only a short time after lunch as I had to pick up my oldest daughter from school. I decided to bring both girls back to the sales and hit an Estate Sale I had passed a few times during the day.
So, it's about 4:00pm and I'm walk into the house and the guy says, "It's the 2nd day of the sale, so everything is 1/3 off." Cool, but I'm not expecting much. I see a TV with VCR and a tag that says, "TV and CD Player -$75". While there was a remote and manual for a DCM-440, there was only the older Mits 20" and generic VCR. No CD Player. The lady apologized for the mix up and suggested I head downstairs to see what I can find.
I head down and round the corner and see a couple pairs of speakers. The first pair was a crappy old pair of bookshelf speakers. On top it said, "Philco B&B speakers -$32.50" ($21.45 w/ 2nd day discount). So, I go to check out the other speakers right next to them. On the top it says, "Black Tower Speakers -$57.50" ($37.95 w/ 2nd day discount). I tilt the speaker to take a look at the back and I read "Snell Type J IV".
Hmmmmmm....:scratch2:....decisions, decisions!
I QUICKLY go find assistance and get the speakers marked "sold" and go off to do some other hunting. No other audio to be found, but I did find 14 variety of Type II blank cassettes (already recorded) Mostly Maxell XL-II and TDK-SA. All priced at $0.10 each (total of $0.93 for all 14).
Anyway, I bring the speakers and cassettes up and check out for $39.26.
Not bad if i do say so myself!
I was only slightly dissappointed to get home to find both woofers bad -one had a tear in the surround and the other was DOA. I still would have bought it. The cabinets are in very nice shape. Sadly, the woofers are $149 each from Snell. I might be able to get them a bit cheaper, but we'll see. I may have to go for a rebuild.
(Also scored a Panasonic SL-S290 portable CD player for $2 (w/ A/C adaptor) and 4 more Type II cassettes -including one SA-X and XL-IIS- for $1)
j
My nephew got a jump start and hit this sale last night and pulled away with a NAD 3020 and 4020 for $55.
I headed out with my brother and dad this morning -not knowing what to expect since they had opened the night before.
My dad scored a Denon DCD-810 for $5. It looked as if it was hardly used. My brother scored a Denon DR-M400 at a different sale across the street for $5. (He actually did a body block on me BEFORE he saw the deck.) Not bad and actually kind of enjoyable to see others get some nice equipment. Goodness knows I don't need anything. ;)
Shortly later, and running out of time before we had to head out to meet Mom and my sister for lunch (it is my brother's birthday today). I found a really cool portable. JVC 9475JW -receives shortwave and switches for normal and high bias cassettes. It needs quite a bit of cleaning up, but I got it for $12. See pics below. (Note the very cool vu power meters!)
We went to lunch and returned for only a short time after lunch as I had to pick up my oldest daughter from school. I decided to bring both girls back to the sales and hit an Estate Sale I had passed a few times during the day.
So, it's about 4:00pm and I'm walk into the house and the guy says, "It's the 2nd day of the sale, so everything is 1/3 off." Cool, but I'm not expecting much. I see a TV with VCR and a tag that says, "TV and CD Player -$75". While there was a remote and manual for a DCM-440, there was only the older Mits 20" and generic VCR. No CD Player. The lady apologized for the mix up and suggested I head downstairs to see what I can find.
I head down and round the corner and see a couple pairs of speakers. The first pair was a crappy old pair of bookshelf speakers. On top it said, "Philco B&B speakers -$32.50" ($21.45 w/ 2nd day discount). So, I go to check out the other speakers right next to them. On the top it says, "Black Tower Speakers -$57.50" ($37.95 w/ 2nd day discount). I tilt the speaker to take a look at the back and I read "Snell Type J IV".
Hmmmmmm....:scratch2:....decisions, decisions!
I QUICKLY go find assistance and get the speakers marked "sold" and go off to do some other hunting. No other audio to be found, but I did find 14 variety of Type II blank cassettes (already recorded) Mostly Maxell XL-II and TDK-SA. All priced at $0.10 each (total of $0.93 for all 14).
Anyway, I bring the speakers and cassettes up and check out for $39.26.
Not bad if i do say so myself!
I was only slightly dissappointed to get home to find both woofers bad -one had a tear in the surround and the other was DOA. I still would have bought it. The cabinets are in very nice shape. Sadly, the woofers are $149 each from Snell. I might be able to get them a bit cheaper, but we'll see. I may have to go for a rebuild.
(Also scored a Panasonic SL-S290 portable CD player for $2 (w/ A/C adaptor) and 4 more Type II cassettes -including one SA-X and XL-IIS- for $1)
j