Western Electric

[EVBoy]

Check this out. Noaf.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-western-...vip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l10137

 

[grillebilly]

Judging by the gear laying around in the picture the seller is no stranger to high end gear.

 

[Audio Fan]

Just take a look at his other auctions and your jaw will drop. An absolute hoard in what appears to be a run down warehouse. A pickers dream.

 

[grillebilly]

other auctions

I wonder what else he has already sold. So many hard to find items in one place.

 

[Leland47]

I think this is the same guy that had an Ebay ad up for his whole warehouse full of stuff for something like $598 thousand dollars....

Can't find his ad now...but he's been mentioned here on Dollars and Sense before.

Great gear he has for sure!

 

[Audio Fan]

I thought that this may be that auction as well, but that one had much more in the way of speakers and seemed better organized. This appears more like an audio junk yard where you could pull your own parts. But man, what parts you could pull.

 

[satellite65]

I think this is the same guy that had an Ebay ad up for his whole warehouse full of stuff for something like $598 thousand dollars....

Can't find his ad now...but he's been mentioned here on Dollars and Sense before.

Great gear he has for sure!

I think that was myostuff from NW suburbs of Chicago. This is different username and location.

 

[Audio Fan]

I wonder what else he has already sold. So many hard to find items in one place.

This is unlike ANY collection I have ever seen. Out of curiosity, I searched through the selling history for about the last two years and pulled almost strictly items that sold for more than $1,000, most went for much more and below is a incredible inventory. Sales go back several years, so this is not a new seller. This collection must have been handed down and/or was collecting over many decades.

Selling highlights:
- 1 western electric 714A filter from 86C amp with 2 179A audio choke
- 2 altec peerleess input 4722 for step up MC for thorens garrard or ortofon
- 2 JBL N7000 from olympus for 075 or 077
- 1 Langevin western electric 211 power supply
- 1 pair of IPC western electric LU horns for LU 1060 Lu1000 we 555
- 1 western electric 7355A monitor amplifier cage
- UTC LS57 for western electric 300b 2A3 or other tubes for PP or single ended
- 1 pair western electric KS 6368 monitor horns
- 1 original western electric 755A
- 2 JBL 077 super tweetors
- 2 ALTEC 515 hollywood label from 1940
- western electric ipc 1 cabinet with 4 AM1065 tube pre-M
- 1 Otofon 212 9" tone arm needs repair soldas a parts unit
- 2 UTC HA 100X input for MC step up for SME Ortofon or EMT turntable
- 2 western electric 716A filter from 86C amp with 2 179A audio choke
- 2 Langevin 117A monitor amplifier lisence by western electric
- 1 pair of ALTEC 805B horns
- 2 western electric 142B sounds great with rogers ls3/5A-
- 1 Leak 12.1 power amplifier with all good transformers
- 1 stephone tru-sonic E52A field coil 15" speaker same era western electric
- 1 stephone tru-sonic E52A field coil 15" speaker same era western electric #2
- 1 Working Working MCintosh MC240 with telefunken tubes
- 1 Working Working MCintosh MX110 turner pre-M with telefunken tubes Z model
- 1 Thorens TD-124 near mint condition with wooden tone arm
- Mcintosh stereo MC2505 near mint with menu
- 1 Mint condition mcintosh C32 pre-M with All original packing and paper works
- Altec Lansing High Fidelity integrated stereo tube amplifier model 353A
- 1 complete restored scott 299 stereo tube amplifier with mullard 5AR4
- 1 NOS western electric engraving and printed base 274B for 124A amplifier
- 1 early version MCintosh MC 240 stereo power amplifier
- 1 garrard 301 early version .with menu and brooks
- 1 tannoy 12" silver monitor with xover
- 2 JBL 4343 WX near mint or mint with all packing and sale recipe
- 1 QUAD I tube power amplifier
- 2 rca MI 9359 2A3 Push 4 809A tube amplifier from western electric theatre.
- 1 Neuwmann telefunken PA-2 turntable
- 2 Altec 1505B horns for 288C or others
- 1 marantz 7C pre- amplifier beati Beati beatiful condition for Roger Ls 3/5A
- 2 western electric TA 7381 tube pre-amp excellent condition.
- 1 marantz 8B power amplifier beati Beati beatiful condition for Roger Ls 3/5A
- 1 Faichild model 600 Conax tube limitor compressor
- western electric 116B pre-M with silver 618A removed from we117A amp
- 1 western electric 14A monitor horn from wildrange sound system 1926

 

[gogofast]

I'm sure we've all had dreams about discovering a warehouse full of such stuff. Seriously, a few years ago, I had a dream of going to a garage sale and finding a garage full of WE tubes in boxes after boxes. Then I woke up and realized it was a dream.....

 

[tyella]

Holy crap! I just did a cursory peruse through the sold items and this fella has pulled close to $43K in the last week.
This person knows his stuff, has a great source, and knows how to list.

(I'm quietly stepping away with my $30 sales)

 

[Archguy]

Judging by the gear laying around in the picture the seller is no stranger to high end gear.

Can anyone explain for me why two ancient WE woofers are worth more than $11K to someone?

Large number of bidders, too. Clearly I'm not in the know!

I do this for living.I know How to packed.Maybe you will pay little Bid.But I m sure you will be more than happy to pay.You know why. ...Buyer has to declare costume at your country.

If he has a first language, it certainly isn't English. Wonder how he came by this colossal hoard?

And where is he, even? Missouri? Illinois??

this fella has pulled close to $43K in the last week.

I wonder if the IRS is one of his 348 followers.

$25 Grand for this one. And I can't even give my old Zeniths away--I've tried.

 

[Snow]

Can anyone explain for me why two ancient WE woofers are worth more than $11K to someone?

Large number of bidders, too. Clearly I'm not in the know!

Many older woofers sell for 5k each or more not just WE speakers even though most WE things bring a premium some old JBL Altec etc field coil speakers can sell for 20k or more

 

[Leland47]

I guess he was attending Auctions and Collecting 40 years ago when there were no buyers....and Tube Gear was usually thrown away....?

 

[Audio Fan]

I guess he was attending Auctions and Collecting 40 years ago when there were no buyers....and Tube Gear was usually thrown away....?

I suspect it was an early audio business that catered to commercial installation/upgrades from the 30's up through the 60's/70's. Most everything appears to be commercial quality components, so I am just guessing, but given the way things seem haphazardly stored on shelves, it seems to have been accumulated over decades. If someone then found it all intact and took it over, it would be the audio story for the record books.

 

[Leland47]

I suspect it was an early audio business that catered to commercial installation/upgrades from the 30's up through the 60's/70's. Most everything appears to be commercial quality components, so I am just guessing, but given the way things seem haphazardly stored on shelves, it seems to have been accumulated over decades. If someone then found it all intact and took it over, it would be the audio story for the record books.

Yes, that make much more sense.

 

[Sam Cogley]

Can anyone explain for me why two ancient WE woofers are worth more than $11K to someone?

They really do sound amazing.

 

[WmartinB]

I suspect it was an early audio business that catered to commercial installation/upgrades from the 30's up through the 60's/70's. Most everything appears to be commercial quality components, so I am just guessing, but given the way things seem haphazardly stored on shelves, it seems to have been accumulated over decades. If someone then found it all intact and took it over, it would be the audio story for the record books.

I've sold directly to the owner off of ebay, he's a chinese exporter who i believe owns a shipping business here in the US and has guys pick up gear. He's amazingly fast with pickups, I've also coordinated two purchases for other AK memebers, one being a very large IPC theater speaker - Picks up within 1-2 days cash in hand

 

[johnny_fever]

UNREAL amount of costly completed listings

 

[Dazaa]

UNREAL amount of costly completed listings

Now consider that at some point in time this was out dated old rubbish and loads will have gone straight to landfill...

 

[tyella]

Now consider that at some point in time this was out dated old rubbish and loads will have gone straight to landfill...

Also calculate the storage costs for 60+ years. Is that a whole warehouse? Couldn't have been cheap to store all of that, presumably paying utilities (heat/air) the whole time. I only mention this to keep myself from filling my house with stuff that I "know" will be valuable someday.