What was your greatest audio find (at a garage sale, flea market, Craigslist, estate sale, street corner, dumpster, etc.)?
Here's mine:
About ten years ago, I was walking east from the Metropolitan Museum of Art toward the 86th Street subway station on New York City's Upper East Side. It was dusk, cold, wet. Sleet was falling pretty steadily. I was heading downtown for an art opening and dinner party. In the middle of the block (82nd or 83rd or 84th Street), between Madison and Park Avenues--stacked in a neat pile at the curb for garbage pickup (all UES garbage is well organized, nicely stacked)--I stumbled upon a white, custom-made, flush-mount 1960s-era audio cabinet, trailing torn wires, as if the equipment had just recently been ripped from the wall. Everything was covered in plaster dust, which, because of the sleet, was just beginning to puddle. Inside were an original Marantz Model 7 preamplifier and a vintage Scott tube tuner with a matching Marantz faceplate. Next to it were two Marantz Model 9 amplifiers. I ran to Park Avenue, hailed a cab, and rushed back to pick up the treasure. Then I stored it all in the trunk of a friend's car until I could cab it all to my Brooklyn apartment later that night.
If you're wondering, I strongly considered getting it all restored for $3,000.00, but opted, instead, to sell it all for $10K.
Happy Hunting
Here's mine:
About ten years ago, I was walking east from the Metropolitan Museum of Art toward the 86th Street subway station on New York City's Upper East Side. It was dusk, cold, wet. Sleet was falling pretty steadily. I was heading downtown for an art opening and dinner party. In the middle of the block (82nd or 83rd or 84th Street), between Madison and Park Avenues--stacked in a neat pile at the curb for garbage pickup (all UES garbage is well organized, nicely stacked)--I stumbled upon a white, custom-made, flush-mount 1960s-era audio cabinet, trailing torn wires, as if the equipment had just recently been ripped from the wall. Everything was covered in plaster dust, which, because of the sleet, was just beginning to puddle. Inside were an original Marantz Model 7 preamplifier and a vintage Scott tube tuner with a matching Marantz faceplate. Next to it were two Marantz Model 9 amplifiers. I ran to Park Avenue, hailed a cab, and rushed back to pick up the treasure. Then I stored it all in the trunk of a friend's car until I could cab it all to my Brooklyn apartment later that night.
If you're wondering, I strongly considered getting it all restored for $3,000.00, but opted, instead, to sell it all for $10K.
Happy Hunting
congrats.
