Goodwill/SA/Thrift Store Discussions & Finds

[INeed.001THD]

I've had too much stuff out of this category to list.
Some highlights are:

Pioneer 1010 - $7.85
Scott 370R - $8
Infinity ICAR - $25
Pile of EMIT's - $10
Pioneer SX-434 - $4
Zenith CV660 Linear Tracking Drawer TT - $5

Most recently, I got a Sansui 4000, two pairs of AR2ax's, a Dual 1219, and 20 blank R2R tapes for $150.

 

[Mitkraft]

Snagged these JBL Studio Monitor 4408 for $20 yesterday at goodwill. They need re-foamed and it sounds like one tweeter works and one doesn't. I haven't opened them up to see If the problem is the tweeter itself or not. The Lpad on the one with the working tweeter seems to work find. They were painted black and some point but I can see the wood grain underneath in one spot so maybe I can remove the paint. We shall see. Was thinking they might be good garage speakers but I've ready where they make better near-field monitors and they might get too much juice in the garage and get ruined. Maybe I'll replace the White Van theater speakers I'm using for monitors on my computer desk and use the JBLs as monitors as intended. The serial numbers are 277780 and 277788, only 8 numbers apart. Not too bad.

 

[chadbang]

A little off the beaten path for me, but I was happy to find this today!!! I just hope it doesn't kill me while I'm sleeping tonight.

 

[chadbang]

While not a huge bargain I managed to get a pair of AR-2ax speakers in decent shape from a second hand store a few weeks ago for $90:...
$125 and maybe 4-5 hours into these. No way can you buy anything that sounds this good for twice the price. I think these are keepers!

These ARs sound soooooooo good. Cheap at ten times the price, in my opinion!. Rich. Big. Full. Absolutely natural.

 

[sjfloat]

Wow. I guess I should have been keeping a GW journal all these years.

OK, this isn't recent; I picked it up several years ago. But I just got around to goo-goning the price sticker off of this Onkyo TA-250c, which is currently the cassette deck I'm using. It was $2.59. I'm certain the Sherwood holding it up was also from GW, but the memory of that transaction is lost in the mists of time.

 

[Eywadude]

It's a two 78 RPM record set with a 36 page color illustrated booklet. I've found them before but they are always trashed. This is in decent shape with no crayon coloring on any of the pages. A miracle!

Must have been given to a kid who was afraid of clowns.

 

[BilboBaggins]

Nothing audio recently, but I found this today.



It's a replica, but my wife loves it so I guess my son won't be getting it!

 

[Lazarus Long]

Nothing audio recently, but I found this today.

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It's a replica, but my wife loves it so I guess my son won't be getting it!

I would paint that black and do a rub through finish..

 

[BilboBaggins]

That would be cool!

 

[highwaychile]

The wife and I went out to eat tonight and she wanted to hit a couple of thrift stores on the way. She didn't find anything, but I struck paydirt.
All of this for $16.
the Blasters "Non-Fiction" LP
James Brown "The One" hardcover book
Marshall Crenshaw "Live!" DVD-Audio
The rest are CD's:
Marshall Crenshaw "Mary Jean & 9 Others" (had it, but for $1.50 I'll pass it on to a friend)
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages "Ritual of the Savages"
Barrence Whitfield & Tom Russell "Cowboy Mambo"
The Specials s/t
Willie DeVille "Miracle"
Syd Straw "Surprise

 

[bigx5murf]

We were talking about this Sony micro system in another thread. Super cool cd mechanism.

Awesome, which thread?

 

[sjfloat]

Not as great a deal, but more recent; a week or two ago.

Sony SS-MB150H pair -- $3.95

 

[plumbob]

JBL SP-4312 pr. for $80!

 

[bigx5murf]

Not as great a deal, but more recent; a week or two ago.

Sony SS-MB150H pair -- $3.95

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There seems to always be a pair of these at goodwill, sony must've sold a ton of them. I picked up a pair for the same price to play around with. Stuffed them, and added a simple crossover. The highs on these are too fatiguing imo.

 

[sjfloat]

There seems to always be a pair of these at goodwill, sony must've sold a ton of them. I picked up a pair for the same price to play around with. Stuffed them, and added a simple crossover. The highs on these are too fatiguing imo.

Mine are still sitting there dejectedly waiting their turn.

 

[Crazy Gnome]

My wife is actually the one who found these.
She called me so i get phone consultation credit only. 15 for the lot. Its encouraging because i have been striking out lately. The Traffic is the single lp version

 

[pauldrewry]

From a library sale I walked away with 40 CD's for under $5. mostly indie with some folk and classical. I restrained myself, seeing how I could have brought ho so many more.

 

[bobsvinyl]

Another Monday media day at GW's Buy the Pound. I bought a ton of DVD season box sets for my flea market table. I took a picture of the stack after I priced them up. Everything from The X-Files to Orange is the New Black. Then I went next door to the retail store and they had 4 bins of records that had just come in. All the vinyl was VG+ or better.

 

[bigx5murf]

Picked these up at goodwill for $20 a couple of months ago. They were both busted, so I put them aside until I found enough boredom to work on them. Re-foamed both woofers, and reattached one of the crossover caps. Judging by the bead of sealant I ripped opening them up, pretty sure I'm the first one to open them up. But each speaker had 2 drinking straws guiding the long screws through the stuffing

These are passive, in the pictures of the powered versions I've seen, these are always upright, with tweeter up top, and woofer on bottom, both angled up. But the badging on these, along with the mounting system, looks like these are meant to be used horizontally as I've got them pictured. Anyone know for sure optimal positioning for these? I'm thinking of using them as rear surrounds in HT.

 

[btomjvc]

I have a pair. Mount them on shorter stands upright. They have a pretty full sound for their size. You got a good purchase there, enjoy. Oh by the way, they should make fine surrounds.