I never finished this story... and I'm bored so I'll share
About two months ago I took off on a saturday night to drive to the Delmar Loop in STL to pickup this old vintage Sansui stereo rack. I liked the look of the speakers, they aren't top of the line Sansui, but they were 150W each and I figured a working turntable and the speakers were worth the $50 I talked the guy down to.
So I get there, which was hell... I don't know if anyone here has been to the wonderful area that is the Delmar Loop, but it's ****** crazy on saturday nights. Blueberry Hill has Chuck Berry playing every weekend, the Pageant has shows , etc etc..
The guy lives right on the back of Delmar, so this apartment is like the nicest rental place I've ever seen. I think the guy was moving because I walk in and the only thing in the place is a few packing boxes and this big assed stereo rack and speakers. I immediately get a bad feeling come over me as it looked smaller in the craigslist pics. And I'm driving the Porsche. But I figured I'd manage and we hauled it downstairs (no small feat). I didn't really inspect it, I mean, for 50$, I didn't care...
Well I get it home and hook it up... the amp needs work as one of the channels is sickly but other than that, it's nice. Both speakers sound great. And when I switch the speakers over from the cheap early 80's sansui amp to a newer THX-certified Sony I had laying around... and it was pretty damn good. Not up to the quality of my 90's JBL LX's but pretty good, really warm.
At this point I could care less about the rack. But the turntable works, and sounds decent, and the tape deck makes one of my old Genesis tapes sound like a CD.
I wrote down the model numbers of some of the components... and did some ebaying thinking it was all pretty much worthless (except the speakers).. turns out I was only half right. While the amp is your run of the mill early 80's japanese kit, I found an identical tape deck just sold on ebay for $45, an identical EQ that had sold for $60, and an identical tuner that was going for around 65$.
I paid $50 for all of it.
So I'm feeling pretty good right about now
I'm hanging on to it all, because, with a different amp and some nicer cables, it will make a nice bedroom stereo for my new house, along with my more audiophile grade JBL/Yamaha combo.
