Elmwood Park NJ Dynaco tube amp/pre, Pioneer turntables + RTR

[cyclotronic]

Started this morning:

https://www.estatesales.net/NJ/Elmwood-Park/07407/1669161

One of the first people in ahead of me took the Dynaco (Dynakit) Stereo 70 amp and PAS 2 preamp for $400 the pair. Same guy also took the Pioneer PL-61 turntable for $65. Besides some crappy records and used reel-to-reel tapes, I only bought the Pioneer PR-100 empty metal reel in original box -- it's visible in one of the pics. Most of the other gear was pretty junky.

I opened up the nicer looking wooden speakers with the tan grills and they had an RCA 15" woofer inside, model SPR-15 or part number MI-17662, which is apparently a rebranded Electrovoice Wolverine LS-15 (see http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussi...ine-ls-15-not-an-electrovoice-wolverine-ls-15 ) They looked kind of cool, but the magnet was too small for their size. No tweeter and no crossover in those boxes. They were asking $60 the pair, which seemed fair, but I left them. The other large speakers were RCA, almost certainly 1970s from the looks of them. Someone bought them for $50 without opening them up.

 

[sixthday]

Dynaco ST-70 with PAS 2 for $400 is very good.

 

[sixthday]

Went there today. Out of those crappy records. I found 7 Quad including one CD-4. I considered it as worth the trip

 

[cyclotronic]

I'll certainly buy quad discs -- I happened to get the 1st Chicago LP on quad at a different sale the same day, and that's a $30+ record retail -- but quad of tepid pop/country/classical/etc doesn't do it for me. That was the first time in a while that I saw a collection that size with zero rock, zero soul, and maybe a half-dozen jazz discs tops.