what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history?

It is great to have all the money you need to have the best and endless upgrading. But what about the components you've had that were inexpensive that turned out to be favorites of yours?

jusam03-16-2023 7:09pm

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cd318 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,636 posts 03-17-2023 at 08:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @alerrico The one and only NAD 3020A back in the 70's. Was the start of you can get quality without all the fuss from NAD. Of course! I can't believe that I've somehow forgotten about the first amp I bought! I got mine in the mid 1980s and it did a great facsimile of far bigger and far more costly amps that followed it. None of which came close to matching it for value for money. A stone cold bargain if ever there was one. I wish I'd kept it now.
taheeti Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 45 posts 03-17-2023 at 10:19pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Job 225 amp $1,300 in 2017 HH Scott LK-72 $500 in 2019 McIntosh MC240 $1,000 + $1,000 for total refurb including tubes in 2022 Buchardt S300 “C” stock new $850 in 2018. Pristine condition not sure where the “C” stock comes from!
harrylavo Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 341 posts 03-17-2023 at 10:20pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The Dynaco tube system --- FM3 tuner, PAS3 preamp, and ST-70 power amp, without a question....still not off today's best systems with fresh tubes and critical components updated with modern capacitors. The second best: KLH ORIGINAL (not new model) Loudspeakers ..... still very competitive with my Thiel 2 2's and 3.5's.
middlemass Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 899 posts 03-17-2023 at 10:46pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Superphon Revelation Dual Mono.
alerrico Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 29 posts 03-18-2023 at 12:17am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Forgot about my "Elcaset" deck Made by Technics in the late 70s it took a huge cassette that had three colors of quality. Blue was the lowest and all you would ever need. The unit automatically sensed the tape type. I pulled and pushed the tape which was the size of reel-to-reel tape and it ran at twice the speed of a regular cassette. I had a guy at the stereo store going on and on about the Nakamichi Dragon how it was the best and highest quality cassette deck ever made. So I lugged this monster into his store....game over. I think retail was close to $2K back then and I got it on the base PX in the Philippines for $200. Format never caught on and eventually sold it but it was a stud!

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