Just had to share...
Some of you who know me know I'm also into classic hi-fi and have far too much old 'junk' littering up my home (inc 8 pairs of speakers, 4 turntables etc etc). Anyway, today was the viewing day for the local auction. There,in the corner, was a pair of 1960s Wharfedale Airedale floor standing speakers – real high-end stuff in their day, right up there with Quad ESLs etc (yes,I have some of those, too
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). They'll be mine tomorrow...
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I check them out, ask the auctioneer where they came from and was told they were from a local house and that they came to the auction with a cabinet filled with old equipment. As the auction cannot sell untested electrical equipment, the contents were 'thrown in the skip (dumpster)'! Needless to say, I headed outside, and pulled out a Revox A77 reel-to-reel tape deck, Revox A75 tuner and a Thorens TD125 turntable with SME 3000 series 2 pick-up arm! Sadly there was no matching Revox A50 amplifier but eBay should solve that 'problem'. Then, in the old cabinet I found all the original sales brochures, manuals and an NOS Shure cartridge in its box. The total price to me? Nothing! Am I happy?
![Huh](http://cal-look.no/lounge/Smileys/default/huh.gif)
......
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Now why doesn't this happen with Okrasa equipment...
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