Kamakiri
The New Dynamic
Well, arrived there about 3am, as usual, and started the rounds with a flashlight. Had about $475 cash on me at the start, came home with about $125 in my pocket after leaving at 8am!
Interesting meet. There were a lot of great scores to be had, and I'd say a rough guess there were at least 40 tube amps there for sale, everything from a homebrew amp with two 45s and Thordarson transformers that sold for $80, to twin RCA commercial monoblock amps with ~80wpc output and push-pull 6??? tubes that went for $300. The meet is going on for the next two days as well!
The biggest scores that I had heard of were a Tannoy speaker that somebody bought for $10 (from what I've heard it was worth at least $1500)....there was a guy apparently chasing him across the parking lot asking "hey, how much you want, HOW MUCH YOU WANT??!!". The gut wrenching one for me was an RCA CT-100 color TV that was in such good shape it made mine look like the dog's breakfast. It sold for $850! Oh, if I only had $850!
So what did I buy? I came up with some goodies.....the best of which were a pair of Fisher receivers, a 500-C and an 800-C. The 500 has the wooden cabinet, and NOS output tubes. Couldn't beat the deal for $100 each! There were a couple more 500c's there without tubes ranging from $75-$150. The names of HH Scott, Fisher, Eico, and Bogen were EVERYWHERE! You could have brought a full size truck and not been able to take away all of the tube gear present! Also of interest were a bunch of JBL speakers, two television station B&W image orthicon cameras, tables and tables of catalin radios, and just about everything in between that you could imagine. No good TTs to speak of save one Dual that I couldn't find the seller to inquire about the price, and a TEAC quad RR that was "locked up" for $45. Another interesting thing was a Nakamichi 1000 deck with a "head problem" for $95. I'd say that most of this stuff will still be there tomorrow, when prices will drop considerably.
One fellow I met there was an engineer for McIntosh about 20 years ago. He had a Mc tuner that he built as a one-off in the shop using components, and was in fact an AM-FM battery radio! Incredible construction quality. That, of course, was not for sale.
Another interesting thing I saw there was a mono tube amp with an Acrasound transformer. Prices at $250, I gasped! Reason? I FOUND ONE IN THE GARBAGE TWO WEEKS AGO! Since there was no power supply, I didn't know what it was! I figured it was somehting out of an old tube console or organ or something! Woohoo!
So all in all a great meet! I'll post the pics when I can!
Interesting meet. There were a lot of great scores to be had, and I'd say a rough guess there were at least 40 tube amps there for sale, everything from a homebrew amp with two 45s and Thordarson transformers that sold for $80, to twin RCA commercial monoblock amps with ~80wpc output and push-pull 6??? tubes that went for $300. The meet is going on for the next two days as well!
The biggest scores that I had heard of were a Tannoy speaker that somebody bought for $10 (from what I've heard it was worth at least $1500)....there was a guy apparently chasing him across the parking lot asking "hey, how much you want, HOW MUCH YOU WANT??!!". The gut wrenching one for me was an RCA CT-100 color TV that was in such good shape it made mine look like the dog's breakfast. It sold for $850! Oh, if I only had $850!
So what did I buy? I came up with some goodies.....the best of which were a pair of Fisher receivers, a 500-C and an 800-C. The 500 has the wooden cabinet, and NOS output tubes. Couldn't beat the deal for $100 each! There were a couple more 500c's there without tubes ranging from $75-$150. The names of HH Scott, Fisher, Eico, and Bogen were EVERYWHERE! You could have brought a full size truck and not been able to take away all of the tube gear present! Also of interest were a bunch of JBL speakers, two television station B&W image orthicon cameras, tables and tables of catalin radios, and just about everything in between that you could imagine. No good TTs to speak of save one Dual that I couldn't find the seller to inquire about the price, and a TEAC quad RR that was "locked up" for $45. Another interesting thing was a Nakamichi 1000 deck with a "head problem" for $95. I'd say that most of this stuff will still be there tomorrow, when prices will drop considerably.
One fellow I met there was an engineer for McIntosh about 20 years ago. He had a Mc tuner that he built as a one-off in the shop using components, and was in fact an AM-FM battery radio! Incredible construction quality. That, of course, was not for sale.
Another interesting thing I saw there was a mono tube amp with an Acrasound transformer. Prices at $250, I gasped! Reason? I FOUND ONE IN THE GARBAGE TWO WEEKS AGO! Since there was no power supply, I didn't know what it was! I figured it was somehting out of an old tube console or organ or something! Woohoo!
So all in all a great meet! I'll post the pics when I can!