Hello, my first post ever on AK!!!
Best find I've ever come across was in a garden shed at a place I once rented.
It is a Sansui AU-222, I took it inside and waited for it to reach room temperature. It was about -20°C outside in the shed. Plugged it in, turned it on and voila, after sitting for maybe 10 years it works flawlessly. Still had it's original blue plastic wrap on the face of it. I asked the landlord and he didn't want it, so it was FREEEEEE and I am never getting rid of it.
Next best was at the local GW, some pristine Sansui SP-1200. I didn't know anything about them but I thought they'd go perfectly with my free Au-222. They were $8 for the pair. Everything about them is mint and they sound spectacular.
Not at a thrift store or anything, some guy I found on kijiji was selling old speakers so I went round there. He had loads of ones and he wanted rid of them all. I hummed and huhhed and mucked around which one's I would take. He said they are all junk speakers and I thought, hmmmm yeah, but I can make them good. Anyway, he said if you take them all for $50 they're yours. There was 7 sets of speakers, various brands including Sansui's, Videoton Diadem (Hungarian vintage ones) and some other unbranded ones, a complete Hitachi system (the model escapes me, it was a gold integrated amp, receiver, and tape deck), a Sony PS-X40 turntable, and a Technics SA-401 receiver.........all for $50. I sold the Hitachi system and recouped $30, so all the rest, which works perfectly for $20.
stations around my area . I try to get on everyweek, well it paid off today. I got a call around 2 pm today from a guy that listened to my add on swap Shop a few weeks ago he said . I specifically was looking for the Pioneer Spec gear 1 and 2 . He tells me he has a working and very clean set 1 and 2 so we made arrangements for me to got to house and check them out . It was a total of 75 miles round trip from my house to his . I got there and he was setting it up so i could see that it worked. And yes it works but i believe the controls need a good cleaning . The super good part to this story is that when we started talking money he told me he wanted $20.00 for the pre Spec1 and $30.00 for the Spec2:scratch2:. I couldnt wait to get them in the car
