I have a good friend that called me last week about a friend of his that had a bunch of stereo equipment he wanted to get rid of. When I asked him what it was, he wasn’t sure just knew that the original owner of it (a guy we all knew that passed away) had spent alot of money on them and it was supposed to be good stuff. This friend had bought the guys Harley, to help the family out, and the rest was thrown in to clear the house out. He was trying to make room in his garage and the stuff had been sitting in there for over 5 years and not used. He didn’t want to be bothered trying to sell it online. I showed up today and he showed me this shelf that had 7 or 8 pieces on it. Most was 80s and up stuff, Sherwood EQ 460b, a Sherwood PD7288 linear tracking turntable missing the dust cover, a Sherwood dual cassette player and a Kenwood cd changer. I wasnt really interested in those, but told him I might be able to sell it on market place for him but not to expect much for them. Then I saw the stuff I was interested in.
First was a Phase Linear 400 amp, then there was a Phase Linear 700b amplifier, a bunch of radio shack fans apparently to cool the phase linear, a SAE A502 amp, and a BK components pre-amplifier Pro-5. Along with a Stanton L737S cartridge. i was trying to figure out a decent price to pay him to help him out. He was in his mid 70s, has a real nice 69 Camaro in the garage and a bunch of Harleys and was retired just enjoying playing with cars and bikes. Didn’t really give a damn about audio stuff. He did mention that at one time he could have his two tvs on the walls of his shop playing the same channel at same time and something happen and it stopped working. I took a look and ended up spending an hour and a half messing with it and got them working for him. He also had a Yamaha a/v system hooked up for stereo that cuts out and hums at times. He had a 90s Marantz that someone told him the Yamaha was better. Looking up the specs he got some bad advice, so I’m going over next week and redoing his whole system for him, swapping out receivers and changing out speakers. I’m also going to pick up a small dac so he can play his tv and his Sirius from phone through the stereo. When we finally sorted out his tv, I told him I only had $400 on me and I’d have to pick up more to give him what I thought was a fair price. He told me if I promised to come over and sort out the shop stereo for him I could have them for the $400 since I already fixed the TVs. He is a pretty cool guy and I now have a new friend. Anyway I’m pretty sure I did ok, I’m not real knowledge about most of the stuff I bought so if anyone has any advice or info I’d be grateful. Probably going to take it to my tech to go over, especially the Phase Linear stuff (yeah I know Flame Linear!) the rest I need to look up info on. I don’t really need 200&350 watt amps with my speakers, I’m running a Sansui AU-7900 through a set of Braun L810 speakers, and I’m pretty happy how it sounds. I may try out the SAE A502 and hang onto that for a bit.
First was a Phase Linear 400 amp, then there was a Phase Linear 700b amplifier, a bunch of radio shack fans apparently to cool the phase linear, a SAE A502 amp, and a BK components pre-amplifier Pro-5. Along with a Stanton L737S cartridge. i was trying to figure out a decent price to pay him to help him out. He was in his mid 70s, has a real nice 69 Camaro in the garage and a bunch of Harleys and was retired just enjoying playing with cars and bikes. Didn’t really give a damn about audio stuff. He did mention that at one time he could have his two tvs on the walls of his shop playing the same channel at same time and something happen and it stopped working. I took a look and ended up spending an hour and a half messing with it and got them working for him. He also had a Yamaha a/v system hooked up for stereo that cuts out and hums at times. He had a 90s Marantz that someone told him the Yamaha was better. Looking up the specs he got some bad advice, so I’m going over next week and redoing his whole system for him, swapping out receivers and changing out speakers. I’m also going to pick up a small dac so he can play his tv and his Sirius from phone through the stereo. When we finally sorted out his tv, I told him I only had $400 on me and I’d have to pick up more to give him what I thought was a fair price. He told me if I promised to come over and sort out the shop stereo for him I could have them for the $400 since I already fixed the TVs. He is a pretty cool guy and I now have a new friend. Anyway I’m pretty sure I did ok, I’m not real knowledge about most of the stuff I bought so if anyone has any advice or info I’d be grateful. Probably going to take it to my tech to go over, especially the Phase Linear stuff (yeah I know Flame Linear!) the rest I need to look up info on. I don’t really need 200&350 watt amps with my speakers, I’m running a Sansui AU-7900 through a set of Braun L810 speakers, and I’m pretty happy how it sounds. I may try out the SAE A502 and hang onto that for a bit.
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