Your best freebee!

[akb778]

Found a Dual 1226 off eBay for $45 once. Perfectly working, other than that it needs a new stylus/cartridge!

[Bob in STL]

What kind of country do you people come from where people just leave good stuff out for people to take away? Amazing.

Mick, you should come to the New World some day, they say the streets are lined with gold! (Either that or vintage 70's electronics).

Free - Technics SL-1300 (Right now not fucntional as I need to fix tonearm interface with the counterwieght, otherwise all else is working on it)

Item that may as well have been free ...

$20 - Marantz 2220B - needed light bulbs and feet ($30) and a pot cleaning w/ DeOxit- now sounds great. Cleaned it up and it looks great too!

$25 - Pioneer PL-514 with Ortofon OM 10 - needed a new belt ($7) and a stylus ($15 aftermarket brand) - sounds great. Cleaned it up and made it shine.

$30 - Paradigm Titans Bookshelf speakers - almost perfect condition, had to wipe down the cabinets with vinyl cleaner to get them to shine.

The last components make a very decent stereo system for a small room. My investment is $117 and some time!

[fscl]

Tag sale, headless Sony PX-X555es $5.....

Dirty, neglected, in the attic, complete with dustcover .

The turntable (in the audio center) was gone evidenced by wires and LPs that were left behind.

Expecting the Sony to need lots of work and perhaps a difficult time tracing down / adapt / fabricate a suitable headshell..... Turns out standard Technics headshell fits... so snatched one up on fleabay....

Prelim play with a Technics headshell borrowed from an SL-B205 and the tonearm is skipping, not tracking linearly..... So remove the bottom, take off the rear tonearm and BioTracer covers and inspect. The parabolic worm and spur gear and grease is viable... Clean the guide rod and relube with the proven dry Teflon elixer..... So far about 5 LP sides and 2-7" have played perfectly.....

Happy freebeeing......

Fred and those BioTracer coils look amazingly beautiful..... and hope to verify VTF tomorrow.....

[tim_bissell]

Not me (I don't seem to get freebies) but someone I know was passing by a house being cleared (owner died) and spotted a LP12 in the stick - asked if he could have it, and got a couple of big Meridian active speakers as well!

Fortunately I am a PT guy, so I'm not jealous in the slightest....

-- Tim

[Fishtails]

What kind of country do you people come from where people just leave good stuff out for people to take away? Amazing.

I got given an aiwa z 1800 stereo that has a pxe 850 record player. Plastic rubbish, but sounds good all things considered, it was free, and also got me back into vinyl.
better than than a kick in the nuts.

Also, my father in law has a collection of mint Beatles first pressings in his attic, and god knows what else, I shall surely inherit those one day

It is great! I have gotten so much stuff off the side of the road. Totally high end stuff too. My speakers with peerless drivers and custom made brushed metal casing..yum!

[d334578]

The Garrard 301 I'm listening to right now is my all-time best freebie.

[tomsdubs]

£10 from a Cash Converters, felt like i stole it:

[confusedtim]

£10 from a Cash Converters, felt like i stole it:

Some people are so jammy, not jealous at all honest.

[cafe latte]

£10 from a Cash Converters, felt like i stole it:

Now you know you should take it right back and rectify the clear error..
Regards
CL

[Fishtails]

Oh wow!! Extremely jealous of that dual!

I will offer you $5 simce its been used:)

[megatrends]

Oh wow!! Extremely jealous of that dual!

I will offer you $5 simce its been used:)

Bewahahahahahaha!!!

[robgil]

Logic DM101, ADC tone arm, Goldring 1012gx, all in very good condition and working perfectly, free on freecycle.
Logic Datum 2 for 100 quid still attached to a logic Tempo, now on my DM101.

Anybody after a Logic Tempo with no arm?