What's your best audio "find"

In the early 1990's I purchased a pair of large vintage Tannoy speakers at a tag sale, for $20. I sold them shortly afterwards for $1500, which was about what they were worth at the time. Their main value was in the drivers, not the primitively designed cabinets, which undoubtedly compromised the sound that the drivers were capable of.

Regards,
-- Al

A mint pair of Marantz Model 9s with original boxes, manual and performance cards for $2500.

Nice, Ron!

During the same period in the early 90's that I mentioned in my previous post, I also found (through local classified ads) near mint pairs of Marantz 2's and 9's, for about 1/3 of the amount I ended up selling them for. Both were all original except for tubes.

Most likely because of some aspect of their condition, I couldn't get the 9's to sound quite as good as I would have expected. The 2's, though, were definitely among the better sounding amplifiers I have ever heard. I'm still kind of kicking myself for selling them, although they were not quite powerful enough for my purposes (especially in triode mode, in which they sounded best), and they were worth too much to hold onto given that I wouldn't be using them most of the time.

Best regards,
-- Al