Your best HiFi bargain?

[Turn it up!]

I was looking for a cheap CD player so I could dig my CDs out of the loft and found this bargain on FB Marketplace. £25 for a Denon 100W Amp, CD and cassette player, always wanted a nice little second system for the office. Hooked them up to a pair of Kef CS1a that have been sitting unused since I moved the main system to actives.

And now I get to play my teenage cassettes. Anyone for a heavy pause button 1981 top 40 chart compilation?!

Got me thinking, what's the best bargains other Wammers have found?

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[tackleberry]

By best was a lenco for £5, a pair of musfid mc4 £4 and an albarry pre for £4 all off the same house collection market.

 

[DUVET]

Mmmm one man's bargain is another man's " you paid how much ".

 

[Rockchild]

My bass traps. 😂

 

[lazycat]

A Rega Planar 2 found in a skip. With a nice Akai tuner.

The money I scored from them helped buy my Exposure amp when I was very skint.

 

[Bazzer]

OPPO UDP-205 £1399 (RRP)

Should have bought five .

 

[DUVET]

Concrete floors in my last two listening rooms . Never cost me a penny .

 

[Beobloke]

Oh good grief, where do I start?

- Boxed B&O Beogram 4000 - £4
- Rega Planar 3 and Coral 777 MC - £5
- Quad 33/303/FM2SD - £5
- Original 1960s Goodmans Maxims - £1
- Another pair of original 1960s Goodmans Maxims - 50p
- B&O Beovox MS150 speakers - £50
- Meridian MCD - £5
- Technics SL-P10 - £5
- Monitor Audio Silver 5i - £12
- Leak Troughline and TL/10 amplifier - £10
- Garrard 301 - £40
- Garrard 4HF - £4

And probably loads more I’ve forgotten…

 

[MF 1000]

Ah …define Bargain ?

 

[Turn it up!]

Ah …define Bargain ?

For me its paying way less than you were expecting to get something you wanted. And if you found it in a skip and it still worked.

 

[Lawrence001]

I did see a bloke with these huge DIY speakers at the Wam show, I felt sorry for him having to cart them home so I was going to offer him a tenner to break them up, but was to busy to get round to it.

 

[Turn it up!]

Oh good grief, where do I start?

- Boxed B&O Beogram 4000 - £4
- Rega Planar 3 and Coral 777 MC - £5
- Quad 33/303/FM2SD - £5
- Original 1960s Goodmans Maxims - £1
- Another pair of original 1960s Goodmans Maxims - 50p
- B&O Beovox MS150 speakers - £50
- Meridian MCD - £5
- Technics SL-P10 - £5
- Monitor Audio Silver 5i - £12
- Leak Troughline and TL/10 amplifier - £10
- Garrard 301 - £40
- Garrard 4HF - £4

And probably loads more I’ve forgotten…

That's some serious bargains, the Leak stands out in particular.

 

[Lawrence001]

Mmmm one man's bargain is another man's " you paid how much ".

To be fair if anyone on here thinks £5 for a Lenco is too much they're on the wrong forum. Unless they're a Linnite belt drive or Japanese DD obsessive of course.

 

[Jules_S]

I'm going to send some of you lot shopping on my behalf! 😁 Some absolute steals mentioned so far (actually, are you lot sure you DIDN'T steal them?)

 

[pmcuk]

Undoubtedly a job lot of 30 Quad II valve amps from a factory, very cheap. Most of them had line output transformers, not the standard 8 ohm types. So I went up to the Quad factory and bought a large quantity of their standard output transformers. They were pretty mystified as to why, but sold them to me nevertheless.

I fitted them with Russian output tubes and sold them for about £250 a pair. Got rid of the lot!

 

[tackleberry]

To be fair if anyone on here thinks £5 for a Lenco is too much they're on the wrong forum. Unless they're a Linnite belt drive or Japanese DD obsessive of course.

Was a strange response I thought!

 

[MF 1000]

My best ‘bargain‘ ….was getting the MF A370 monster power amp on eBay fir £650 ….went to collect and the young lad that owned it was living with his Nan - who told him to give me ‘that other bit’ then it was ‘all got rid off’ etc …….only the matching MF preamp ! Crazy but was bought without hearing it run too 🫣

Sold it on eBay a few weeks later for almost 50% of what I paid for the power amp 😁

 

[Non-Smoking Man]

Hard to beat the £750 I paid for a new/opened AT Art 9 off eBay.
It was in Fareham, close to Chichester, and I drove there and knocked on the door. A young lady came to the door, with her mum behind her in the dining room and explained that her father had sadly died before he had a chance to fit it and the mother shouted out 'its never been used'.

I went home and was the sole bidder.
When I collected the cart I saw that the mounting gear packet was still sealed, and the thing took an age to bed in. So I trusted the seller and it paid off, and the doubters missed a bargain.

Jack
Its a cracking cartridge too..

 

[wizmax]

Probably the boot fair find 6 years ago on Hayling, https://www.hifiwigwam.com/forum/threads/car-boot-find.76431/

The consignment comprised of a Garrard 301, an SME 3012, a Shure M55, a Leak Stereo 20, and a pair of original 15-ohm Leak Sandwich speakers, £100 to you sir.

 

[GLB]

Surprised this thread is not filled with the things i sold lol .