timgriffin
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No wonder I can never find anything at thrift stores 
chicks' Goodwill Systems
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schen
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Goodwill Strikes again
I'll have to thank Chick for inspiring me to get off of my duff and look through the local Goodwills! Actually, what motivated me was my wife who had cleaned out the kids' rooms and needed me to take away 3 bags of stuff. So I was off to Goodwill tonight and decided that since Chick had had such good luck I should look around inside after dropping off the stuff.
At the second one I went to (both on the way home). There it sat! An Onkyo TA-R301 Cassette Deck, for $8! Not a 3-Head Nakamichi, but hey, not bad at all. I'm actually listening to it right now in my office hooked up to my trusty Advent Response 420s.
I'll have to thank Chick for inspiring me to get off of my duff and look through the local Goodwills! Actually, what motivated me was my wife who had cleaned out the kids' rooms and needed me to take away 3 bags of stuff. So I was off to Goodwill tonight and decided that since Chick had had such good luck I should look around inside after dropping off the stuff.
At the second one I went to (both on the way home). There it sat! An Onkyo TA-R301 Cassette Deck, for $8! Not a 3-Head Nakamichi, but hey, not bad at all. I'm actually listening to it right now in my office hooked up to my trusty Advent Response 420s.
chicks
Lunatic Member
Picked up this little Pioneer SX-590 at Thrift Town yesterday. It just looked so pathetic sitting there, covered in filth. After a preliminary cleanup, lots of dusting inside, and a Deoxit job, it's looking great and performing nicely.
Still more cleaning to come. I rather like the black dial, vs. the -580's all-silver look. Just 20Wpc, great for a bedroom or garage system. Can't go wrong with power meters!
Still more cleaning to come. I rather like the black dial, vs. the -580's all-silver look. Just 20Wpc, great for a bedroom or garage system. Can't go wrong with power meters!
targeteye
Super Member
Hey chicks ... I enjoyed reading your thread as well. One of these days 'll have to make a post of the ones that got away (or rather sold). Gear is always cycling thru my house as well. I just a junk hound and i'm always looking for stuff. Always have always will. More of a hobby than anything else. The top side is it pays for my systems which otherwise I could never have afforded and I can spend the money without having to feel guilty about it.
Great thread!
Great thread!
chicks
Lunatic Member
Moving up the foodchain
More changes.
Found a little Sony shortwave radio at the GW a couple of months ago. It had some issues, so I joined a Yahoo group that supports the radio. Asked a couple of questions, got an email from a guy who repairs them. Now, I have no interest in SW radios, just wanted to see if I could fix it up and resell it, as I'd seen how much they sell for.
So, the guy found out I was interested in vintage audio, and offered to trade the radio for a heavy Kenwood amp he had. I had never heard of the Model 600, so wasn't terribly interested - until I searched and found it on TVK. :thmbsp:
Had to replace the (expensive) main filter caps and repair the phono jacks, but it's truly a Supreme match for the big JVC TT.
Then last week, I spotted some AR91 speakers on the local CL. Called the seller, turns out he had posted them here on Barter Town previously, and got no responses. I don't look for speakers on BT, as they're usually way off in Michigan or someplace with ridiculously high shipping costs. These were 45 minutes away. Did the deal yesterday, refinished them with Howards last evening, and here they are. They make great stands for the little Sony tuna and the OmniFi streamer, and sound like the updated AR-3's that they are.
Done for a while, just need to fix the grilles on the speakers, and sell a bunch of stuff, then enjoy the music.
Note: Not a single piece of gear in the main system is now from the GW. All paid for with GW gear, though.
More changes.
Found a little Sony shortwave radio at the GW a couple of months ago. It had some issues, so I joined a Yahoo group that supports the radio. Asked a couple of questions, got an email from a guy who repairs them. Now, I have no interest in SW radios, just wanted to see if I could fix it up and resell it, as I'd seen how much they sell for.
So, the guy found out I was interested in vintage audio, and offered to trade the radio for a heavy Kenwood amp he had. I had never heard of the Model 600, so wasn't terribly interested - until I searched and found it on TVK. :thmbsp:
Had to replace the (expensive) main filter caps and repair the phono jacks, but it's truly a Supreme match for the big JVC TT.
Then last week, I spotted some AR91 speakers on the local CL. Called the seller, turns out he had posted them here on Barter Town previously, and got no responses. I don't look for speakers on BT, as they're usually way off in Michigan or someplace with ridiculously high shipping costs. These were 45 minutes away. Did the deal yesterday, refinished them with Howards last evening, and here they are. They make great stands for the little Sony tuna and the OmniFi streamer, and sound like the updated AR-3's that they are.
Done for a while, just need to fix the grilles on the speakers, and sell a bunch of stuff, then enjoy the music.
Note: Not a single piece of gear in the main system is now from the GW. All paid for with GW gear, though.
slippers-on
Music...let it move you!
More changes.
Found a little Sony shortwave radio at the GW a couple of months ago. It had some issues, so I joined a Yahoo group that supports the radio. Asked a couple of questions, got an email from a guy who repairs them. Now, I have no interest in SW radios, just wanted to see if I could fix it up and resell it, as I'd seen how much they sell for.
So, the guy found out I was interested in vintage audio, and offered to trade the radio for a heavy Kenwood amp he had. I had never heard of the Model 600, so wasn't terribly interested - until I searched and found it on TVK. :thmbsp:
Had to replace the (expensive) main filter caps and repair the phono jacks, but it's truly a Supreme match for the big JVC TT.
Then last week, I spotted some AR91 speakers on the local CL. Called the seller, turns out he had posted them here on Barter Town previously, and got no responses. I don't look for speakers on BT, as they're usually way off in Michigan or someplace with ridiculously high shipping costs. These were 45 minutes away. Did the deal yesterday, refinished them with Howards last evening, and here they are. They make great stands for the little Sony tuna and the OmniFi streamer, and sound like the updated AR-3's that they are.
Done for a while, just need to fix the grilles on the speakers, and sell a bunch of stuff, then enjoy the music.
Note: Not a single piece of gear in the main system is now from the GW. All paid for with GW gear, though.
Very nice....
Art K.
The Voodoo You Do!
schen
Member
Under that Yamy
What is that under the Yamaha receiver? It wouldn't happen to be an Advent Response would it?
Sure hate to stick this beautiful Yammie into storage. What to do, what to do... :scratch2:
What is that under the Yamaha receiver? It wouldn't happen to be an Advent Response would it?
chicks
Lunatic Member
Nope, just a little Tivoli Pal radio.
uxwbill
Lurking in the Shadows
voltcontrol
Fizheuer Zieheuer
w o w ... One heck of a trade..
http://www.thevintageknob.org/kenwood-Model_600.html
http://www.thevintageknob.org/kenwood-Model_600.html
chicks
Lunatic Member
Reserved For Yamaha Orthodynamic Headphones. Just a cover for the headphone jacks. Probably fairly rare for them to have survived.
chicks
Lunatic Member
Yep, it's a holy grail, but I was completely ignorant of its existence. Not anymore.
Unfortunately, now I need the matching tuna...
maxhoffa
Active Member
Wow . . and I thought that *I* did well at the sales and thriftos . . . not so much now.
I'm moving to Chico in a few months so you might have a little bit of comp at the GW's now. I'll have to make a loop into Sac once a week or something.
The GW's in the Los Angeles county area, where we lived before moving to Germany for a bit, would all centralize donations, clear out the cream, and then resend the sifted donations back to the stores. It got reaaaaaalllllly tough to make good pulls out of those stores (in the Pomona/Claremont/Ontario region) by 2007. Before that, you'd pull all kinds of nice vintage gear out of them, 14k watches, art work, etc. But with the centralized donation policy, that changed big time.
Sounds like Sactown GW's still uses the 'in the back door out the front door' policy which is the way it *should* work.
Oh, and I obviously have ZERO problem with trolling the thriftos for gear at pennies on the dollar. I don't see the moral hazard to that at all. To each his own though.
But bottom line, NICE work!
I'm moving to Chico in a few months so you might have a little bit of comp at the GW's now. I'll have to make a loop into Sac once a week or something.
The GW's in the Los Angeles county area, where we lived before moving to Germany for a bit, would all centralize donations, clear out the cream, and then resend the sifted donations back to the stores. It got reaaaaaalllllly tough to make good pulls out of those stores (in the Pomona/Claremont/Ontario region) by 2007. Before that, you'd pull all kinds of nice vintage gear out of them, 14k watches, art work, etc. But with the centralized donation policy, that changed big time.
Sounds like Sactown GW's still uses the 'in the back door out the front door' policy which is the way it *should* work.
Oh, and I obviously have ZERO problem with trolling the thriftos for gear at pennies on the dollar. I don't see the moral hazard to that at all. To each his own though.
But bottom line, NICE work!
chicks
Lunatic Member
Of course you do.
That, or a nice Akai AT-2600 with audiophile mods. Know anyone with one of those?