My wife and I went to a subdivision-wide garage sale today, where almost every other house in the development has a garage sale on the same day. So as we were leaving, and not really finding anything worth buying, we checked out one last sale, at which a high-chair caught my wife's attention. But this story is not about the high chair.
There was a medium-sized glass door stereo cabinet in the garage, with a few components, and 2 speakers on top of the cabinet. There was a price sticker for a reasonable price on the cabinet, which I figured was just for the cabinet itself. Upon talking to the seller, I found out it was for the whole system. This is a list of what I just bought. Listed after each one are the relative retail price at the time they were new, and what they are worth now. Prices obtained using the Orion Home Stereo Blue Book.
Onkyo Integra Integrated Amplifier/Reciever / $590 / $100
Yamaha CD player / $100 / $30
Yamaha Stereo Tuner / $100 / $30
Two Infinity RS 5000 speaker enclosures / $560 / $150
Glass door component cabinet / $150 / $50
The Onkyo Intergra Amplifier was top of the line when it was new, and is still considered to be a very high-end amp, over 10 years later. The 2 Infinity speaker enclosures are each about 3 feet tall, and have an 8 inch woofer, very high end tweeters, and tons of features.
So we're looking at nearly $1600 (new) / $400-500 (used) worth of equipment here.
I got it all for 20 dollars.
There was a medium-sized glass door stereo cabinet in the garage, with a few components, and 2 speakers on top of the cabinet. There was a price sticker for a reasonable price on the cabinet, which I figured was just for the cabinet itself. Upon talking to the seller, I found out it was for the whole system. This is a list of what I just bought. Listed after each one are the relative retail price at the time they were new, and what they are worth now. Prices obtained using the Orion Home Stereo Blue Book.
Onkyo Integra Integrated Amplifier/Reciever / $590 / $100
Yamaha CD player / $100 / $30
Yamaha Stereo Tuner / $100 / $30
Two Infinity RS 5000 speaker enclosures / $560 / $150
Glass door component cabinet / $150 / $50
The Onkyo Intergra Amplifier was top of the line when it was new, and is still considered to be a very high-end amp, over 10 years later. The 2 Infinity speaker enclosures are each about 3 feet tall, and have an 8 inch woofer, very high end tweeters, and tons of features.
So we're looking at nearly $1600 (new) / $400-500 (used) worth of equipment here.
I got it all for 20 dollars.
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