Boot Sale HiFi 2017

[Audio Al]

As its now 2017 thought it was time ;)

All my local boots are currently closed ;)

1st one opens in Feb I think maybe sooner :eyebrows:

[brian2957]

Looking forward to it Al . 2017 is going to be a very good year . I can feel it in ma .... :)

[Firebottle]

Water? Bones? :scratch:

[Audio Al]

First visit of the year yesterday, It was FfFfFfFreeeezzzzing my bits nearly snapped off :eek:

Very few sellers , some LP's all Mrs Mills and Harry Secombe that sort, and a very beaten up :doh:Technics amp ,Did not ask how much it was as it was mullered

[Audio Al]

Water? Bones? :scratch:


Wallet ;)

[brian2957]

C'mon Al we know you've got lotsa money :D

[Audio Al]

C'mon Al we know you've got lotsa money :D

Now spent on hifi ;)

Donations welcome :)

[brian2957]

Now spent on hifi ;)

Donations welcome :)

I know the feeling :)

[Michael loves music]

I like to go in a warm charity shop pay peanuts for old hifi equipment and flog it on eBay for a vast profit !!

[Audio Al]

Booty cancelled as its a mud bog :(

[Barry]

I like to go in a warm charity shop pay peanuts for old hifi equipment and flog it on eBay for a vast profit !!

I trust that was said in jest.

[Lodgesound]

I second that HEARTILY Barry!

It is one of the manifold reasons why we will NOT allow any high end machines that we aquire to go back into private hands - we only ever donate to large recognised public bodies who will use them for preservation purposes.

We will abosolutely NOT allow any private individual (flippers as they are known on Ebay) to prophit from our equipment aquisitions or disposal.

Sales of machines that we approve are priced appropriately to negate any third party prophit.

Unlike many "chancers" we have major contacts in what was once a well respected industry that has now been sadly decimated both by progress and greed.

[Audio Al]

Went today and returned with 11 LP's ,20 7" singles and 2 eight track cartridges :D still in the original boxed ,

Apparently I missed all the really good LPs :( The seller said one man purchased 31 of the good ones )

Oh well I'm happy with my finds ;)

[Audio Al]

Went to the boot sale this morning :)

Just as I arrived the heavens opened :(

End of boot sale :( :(

[Barry]

I only bought one CD for 50p.

Last week I didn't buy anything audiowise, but I did buy a jar of Marmite and a stainless steel kitchen sink complete with faucet!

[Audio Al]

Love it or hate it :eyebrows:

[Macca]

I only bought one CD for 50p.

Last week I didn't buy anything audiowise, but I did buy a jar of Marmite and a stainless steel kitchen sink complete with faucet!

It's the marmite that gets me. Who sells jars of marmite at a boot sale? I'd also ask who buys it except we already found that out.

[Audio Al]

Boot sale are slowly becoming markets selling new :(

[Barry]

It's the marmite that gets me. Who sells jars of marmite at a boot sale? I'd also ask who buys it except we already found that out.

It was half the price - and I love Marmite!

[Barry]

Boot sale are slowly becoming markets selling new :(

Yes - sellers of new cosmetics frequently appear at bootsales. As do vendors of pet food.

[Macca]

Not here they don't. Here it's all house clearance crap. I mean complete tat that just needs tipping.

[Paul-H]

Don't know why it is but all the Charity shops around here (and there are loads of them) have all stopped selling electrical gear, and all the LP'S seem to be James Last or Mrs Mills.

Still kick myself for the one time I did see an amp which was one of the big Pioneer silvers in the S-9000 range for £50 and at the time was skint (again) so had to pass, that was a few years ago now but virtually nothing in any of them now, and as said above most don't hold any electrical stock at all.

Paul

[Macca]

I think it is because due to heath & safety gone mad they are obliged to test mains powered electricals before offering for sale. And as most of it is tat that won't sell anyway they won't spend the money to do it.

[Marco]

Not here they don't. Here it's all house clearance crap. I mean complete tat that just needs tipping.

Ha- that's what you get living in an area overrun by oiks! :D;)

I always find that the nicer/wealthier the area, the better the contents generally are in charity shops and car boots...

Marco.

[Macca]

Here we spend our money on booze and fags not squander it on expensive crap just to give it away 6 months later for 50p down a booty.

[Marco]

:lolsign:

Fortunately, around here, out with of the chav dross and layabout scumbags, infecting certain housing estates, there's a lot of 'old money' and large properties locally, especially in rural towns and around Cheshire, so the 'pickings' are generally quite good - not that I go often to car boot sales though, much as I occasionally enjoy it :)

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

Only ever been to a car boot once, and then purely by chance. Walking along the sea front and a car park was being used. Nothing much to see, so I moved along rapidly. I never went back.

[Macca]

Only ever been to a car boot once, and then purely by chance. Walking along the sea front and a car park was being used. Nothing much to see, so I moved along rapidly. I never went back.

That's because when you get there at 0630 or whatever and open up your van there is a whole crowd of them there already who will unload the van for you and then buy all the good stuff. I just used to stand back and have a ciggy while they fought like rats. By 0700 you've only got the tat left.

[Spectral Morn]

That's because when you get there at 0630 or whatever and open up your van there is a whole crowd of them there already who will unload the van for you and then buy all the good stuff. I just used to stand back and have a ciggy while they fought like rats. By 0700 you've only got the tat left.

I know that happens, I have seen similar at antique fairs.

[Macca]

I know that happens, I have seen similar at antique fairs.

Car boot is just antiquing for poor people. Or angry loners with time on their hands, like me.

[Marco]

Why angry? :hmm:

Marco.

[Macca]

Loners are always angry. It's a part of the whole package.

[Marco]

Ah I see, maybe that's why I've clashed on forums with so many of those types in the past [refusing to be a target for their anger]! ;)

Unfortunately, forums are full of them. In any case, you don't look angry, merely slightly miffed.

Marco.

[Spectral Morn]

Car boot is just antiquing for poor people. Or angry loners with time on their hands, like me.

I think that car boot fairs can be a great source of interesting stuff, but I guess collectibles and antique dealers are among those picking through the stuff as it gets unloaded. There is one held about 10 mins walk from where I live,thing is I can't be bothered getting up early enough to make it worth my while. And it could be argued very easily I have way too much stuff already to be adding more to it.

[walpurgis]

I think that car boot fairs can be a great source of interesting stuff, but I guess collectibles and antique dealers are among those picking through the stuff as it gets unloaded.

There are plenty of chancer traders wanting to get in first. When selling at boot sales, I've had them come over and start going through the stuff in my car before I've even unloaded. Needless to say I tell 'em to piss off.

[Spectral Morn]

There are plenty of chancer traders wanting to get in first. At boot sales, I've had them come over and start going through the stuff in my car before I've even unloaded. Needless to say I tell 'em to piss off.

I can imagine.

[Macca]

There are plenty of chancer traders wanting to get in first. When selling at boot sales, I've had them come over and start going through the stuff in my car before I've even unloaded. Needless to say I tell 'em to piss off.

That's the best bit. First one I did was a bit of a shocker, they come running after your van as you drive in. Second one I said to my girlfriend 'Just drive around the car park in a big circle a few times and see if they will actually follow us round.' And they did! We were wetting ourselves laughing.

[Marco]

Haha - quality... Sounds funnier than watching soap-dodging chavs fighting over cheap TVs on Black Friday! :lol:

Marco.

[Macca]

Aye, good times.

[Barry]

Ha- that's what you get living in an area overrun by oiks! :D;)

I always find that the nicer/wealthier the area, the better the contents generally are in charity shops and car boots...

Marco.

You should see the stuff that's put out for disposal in some of the wealthier parts of London - all because the owners are too lazy to take it to a charity shop where some good could come of it.

[Macca]

If it is any good it will never make it to recycle or land fill. Worst case someone who works at the tip will have it. Used to have a mate who worked at the tip. Used to get all sorts of stuff. Quite a lot of records, he gave me a couple of AC DC albums. He also got a Marshall amp, little practice one. Working fine and cosmetically mint. Just incredible that someone would skip it. And this is one of the poorest areas in England.

[Marco]

Yup, it's a sad reflection on today's 'disposable society'! :rolleyes:

Marco.

[dantheman91]

i was not long ago having a discussion with my father he was a regular at out local tip for many years - HI-FI and records related and the stuff he used to pick up was incredible One occasion was a Leak TL12+ in original box and a HH Scott amplifier & Celestion 66's Sansui G 22000 my mum picked this with me one morning when we went to drop of house hold items they also found a whole host of other gems a Garrard 401 also that was buried in a plinth with leaves and twigs we did nothing with it but bin it :steam: if only we restored it all now long gone because the law legislation changed he missed a pair of Tannoy IIILZ's after this was brought in and they ended up on ebay from one of the workers. :steam: the good old days are going lads nothing like it used to be which is very very sad used to be something for everyone now everyone is after the same thing you would be amazed..

[Audio Al]

Not a lot at the booty today , I did bag 5 cassette for £1
Red hot chilli peppers " What hits "
Extreme 11 pornograffitti
Giant : Time to burn "
Alice Cooper " Schools out "
Beach Boys " endless summer "

Also had a great deal on a Lowepro Slingshot 202AW camera bag ,
New around £80 , one used on eBay £42 , I Bagged this one for £2 :D
its in the washing machine now having a freshen up , A new home for my F100 Nikon kit :D

[Firebottle]

I Bagged (lol) this one for £2 :D

That's the sort of bargain you want to pick up, good one Al.
A bit like my R2R for 10 Euros :D

[337alant]

Bad night on the drink but glad I got up as I got a Studer A820 for £20 :eek:, guy said his farther had it stored in a flight case in his garage for 20 years but he didnt know much about them :eyebrows:
To be continued

Alan

[Lodgesound]

Since an A820 is attached to it's trolley and cannot be separated easily that would be a huge flightcase weighing in at around 130 kilos.

The machine alone weighs 98 kilos.

[337alant]

Bad night on the drink but glad I got up as I got a Studer A820 for £20 :eek:, guy said his farther had it stored in a flight case in his garage for 20 years but he didnt know much about them :eyebrows:
To be continued

Alan

I couldn't believe my luck but then I was suddenly awoken from my dream by the wife saying i thought you were going to the car booty today Al ! :D:D:D

Just dreaming

Top marks Stewart impossible to get an A820 in a flight case :D:doh: Alan

[Audio Al]

I woke up early , went to the booty and found sweet F all
I think the days of booty finds are over :(

[dantheman91]

Couple of bits today

JVC TX X372 Cassette Player - £4
ADC CDX250 CD player - unusual so i nabbed it at £6 - excellent condition - Not tested yet but loads and plays so looks hopeful..:)

[dantheman91]

ADC - Sounds Bloomin Gorgeous :)

[struth]

quite a good machine that Dan... they were I think made for them by dbx pro in the states. Mid 80,s i think

[dantheman91]

quite a good machine that Dan... they were I think made for them by dbx pro in the states. Mid 80,s i think

Is their nothing you dont know laddie...;) Thank you sounds very interesting...:)

[Barry]

I woke up early , went to the booty and found sweet F all
I think the days of booty finds are over :(

Inclined to agree Al. Went to three today (05:00 start!), and all I bought was a couple of CDs a couple of LPs and a paperback copy of Aesop's Fables. Total expenditure £4.00; hardly worth the petrol.

Were it not for my GF being such a boot sale fanatic, I would knock it on the head.

[337alant]

Went to ruforth Boot sale this mornng and picked up some lps cassettes and CDs all cheap as chips :eyebrows:

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alan

[Audio Al]

Some nice finds Alan

[Barry]

Ummm, nice haul Alan - especially the Roxy Music, Tina Turner Shirley Bassey and the Previn 'The Planets'.

All I came back with was a double CD of Howlin' Wolf for 50p. Too many LPs, which attracted my attention, were simply not in a sufficiently good condition to warrent the asking price. :(

[Minstrel SE]

Interesting.

I havent been to a car boot sale or outdoor sale in ages. The bigger ones are at Styal and Chelford round here. I have never seen anything electrical really worth having. I worry that I wouldnt even know if it powers up unless Im looking for a restoration project

I prefer to shop on the online sites.

I had a chance of buying a NAD 320BEE and 521CD player at the charity shop for £12. I hummed and hawed because they were in iffy cosmetic condition covered in thick dust with a ring of rubbed plastic round the volume knob etc.....probably my mistake that but I didnt feel like another clean up project and they were just the wrong side of something that looked cared for

I see very little of interest in the charity shops now....no interesting vinyl or anything.

I pop in very occasionally if passing

[Beobloke]

Went and sold at my local boot sale today and it was a sad occasion as it was its last day - it's closing after 32 years as the council have purchased the land to build houses. :(

Saw a few interesting bits - nice Yamaha integrated amplifier, an Akai preamp and a pair of Mission 702e speakers but nothing worth getting particularly excited about. In fact, the best stuff was on my stall and I sold most of it! :D

[Saber]

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Only two I saw today i felt like taking a punt on, the Erroll Garner is pretty good, the chevalier record...will probaly go in the next cull, its a bit twee for my liking.

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My best find recently is that mission CD, cant find any real info about it on the web though, only a lesser version that I presume came with the gramaphone magazine, this one is mint too.

[Barry]

Visited two boot sales today.

Only bought four CDs and no LPs. These days, the only LPs that attract my attention are either ridiculously priced and/or are in insufficiently good condition. So no sale! Total expenditure £2.

On the other hand, my girlfriend spent £105!

[Beobloke]

Not the boot sale but I went to the National Vintage Communications Fair today and came home with the box set of Chris Rea's 'The Hofner Blue Notes' album, a Yamaha DSP-100 surround sound processor, a B&O Beomaster 5000 receiver with Master Control Panel, Beocord 5000 cassette deck, Beogram CD-50 CD player and Beogram 5500 turntable with MMC4 cartridge.

[Audio Al]

11 lip's for me today :) only £5.50 ;)

[Audio Al]

Visited two boot sales today.

Only bought four CDs and no LPs. These days, the only LPs that attract my attention are either ridiculously priced and/or are in insufficiently good condition. So no sale! Total expenditure £2.

On the other hand, my girlfriend spent £105!

I hope it was her money Barry :) hate to see a grown man cry :lol:

[Barry]

I hope it was her money Barry :)

Oh yes! (Well apart from £10 which I loaned her.)

[Minstrel SE]

The web must be killing off car boot sales and Ive just read an article to support that

I used to wander up to a local one but more often than not there was nothing of interest so I stopped going. I also start entering a mode where Im looking for anything to buy to make my trip worthwhile. Last time it was some surgical scissors and tweezers...very nice for what they are but Ive not really had a use for them.

Its mostly tat and Ive seen some sad sights of people stood infront of a Mercedes with a table full of broken toys. It would hardly cover their entry fees

All the dealers are at the major events at 5am and I just like to casually wander around later on a sunny day. I wonder what living can be made by the dealers.

There is also that slightly seedy atmosphere of people hovering hoping for a house clearance. You know what Im getting at...has somebody died and are the relatives are clearing out vintage gems they think is junk? The jumble sale feeling where people are pushing to the front. The hatchback goes up and people are crowding around in a bit of a frenzy. That just isnt my style and I find it a bit distasteful.

I've worked out that Im extremely unlikely to see a Nait 2 where somebody doesnt know what they have.:) Lets face it...thats what we dream about but sellers arent daft. Good vinyl must turn up once in a blue moon as I find it hard to believe that it hasnt been valued and sold elsewhere

I dont really want for anything that I cant see online. This season I may pop along to a couple of boots but I have no expectations other than paying over the odds for an ice cream.

[walpurgis]

I went to a huge Saturday boot sale the other week and didn't spot one piece of proper Hi-Fi.

[Spectral Morn]

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Only two I saw today i felt like taking a punt on, the Erroll Garner is pretty good, the chevalier record...will probaly go in the next cull, its a bit twee for my liking.

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My best find recently is that mission CD, cant find any real info about it on the web though, only a lesser version that I presume came with the gramaphone magazine, this one is mint too.

It was a hifi shop, show demo CD that Mission commissioned and distributed to HiFi Shops. The First one is a Mary Black one. Dave Marchant of Mission was involved in helping her career. Where did he hear her first, the hifi shop I fist worked in.

[Arkless Electronics]

Many years ago... like 25+.. I naively took a load of hi fi gear along to a boot sale hoping to make a few quid.... It was my first visit to a boot sale and I placed price tags on all the gear, which I had checked out beforehand. I had stuff priced at lets say £40 for an integrated amp that you may normally have expected to pay £60 for and thought I'd do ok.... I was laughed at! Eventually an old timer came along and explained that boot sale people will be expecting it all to be non functioning crap, that my assurances of it all being fully tested would fall on deaf ears... and that no matter how good it was, or how much it should be worth, I should not expect more than a fiver for any item! That was the last time I tried selling anything at a booty!

[Marco]

Lol... You are a daftee! Folk at car boot sales are merely looking to spend their loose change on some tat :D

Also, when it comes to electrical items, it's taken for granted that what's being sold is probably fooked, and your assurances to the contrary will mean hee-haw because you just won't be believed...

Think about it if you were in their position, would you believe that some amp, or whatever, being sold at a car boot (where there is zero comeback on anything) was fully working because 'the nice man at the stall said so'! :eyebrows:

Marco.

[Arkless Electronics]

Lol... You are a daftee! Folk at car boot sales are merely looking to spend their loose change on some tat :D

Also, when it comes to electrical items, it's taken for granted that what's being sold is probably fooked, and your assurances to the contrary will mean hee-haw because you just won't be believed...

Think about it if you were in their position, would you believe that some amp, or whatever, being sold at a car boot (where there is zero comeback on anything) was fully working because 'the nice man at the stall said so'! :eyebrows:

Marco.

Indeedy but like I said it was my first visit to a boot sale, I was younger and dafter and I didn't "know the ropes"....

[Marco]

I know mate, I've been there and done that, too! :eyebrows:

Marco.

[cre009]

I went to a huge Saturday boot sale the other week and didn't spot one piece of proper Hi-Fi.

I don't go with the expectation of finding HiFi though they occasionally turn up. Over the last 18 months I picked up a Pioneer PL12D and Technics SL-D202 at prices much lower than ebay. Both ended up working well but were in need of some maintenance. Mainly I am looking for records but have also gone looking specifically for a cassette deck and HiFi VCR and eventually picked something reasonable up.

Different car boot sales seem to have a different character. In one local one it always seems to be the same dealers occupying the same spots selling the same old with no churn. The one I have most success with seems to attract many of the same regular dealers early on but has a lot of sellers arriving quite late and there is churn. For that one the early bird does not get all the worms and arriving a bit later can be beneficial.

[Barry]

Not much today, only three LPs:

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - ‘A Day with Art Blakey 1961 Vol I’ and ‘Vol II’

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(Mine have similar but much ‘cooler’ looking covers)

Live recordings at the Sankei Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Recorded by the Tokyo Broadcasting System, Radio Section January 2, 1961.

Licensed from Teichiku Records to Eastwind. Eastwind 707 (1984)



Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd – ‘Jazz Samba’

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Verve 2352 080 (1963)

All three absolutely mint condition, both the vinyl and the sleeves. £10 the lot

[struth]

Nice score Barry.

[Barry]

Thanks Grant. I haven't had much success at 'bootys' recently, so getting £150 worth of LPs for a tenner is not too bad. :)

One seller was selling a load of classical LPs for 50p each. Mostly cello works and pieces for string quartet and quintets. Some nice boxed sets of Beethoven string quartets, but I would have to have gone through them to check for quality, so I passed them by. When I later changed my mind, the seller had packed up and left. My mistake! :doh:

[Audio Al]

Todays finds , very ltd :(
I have never seen so much sh-t in one day , very disappointing , 90% market traders 10% home sellers :(

Found one Paul Young LP , Other Voices

and
Holst The Plannets Electronically performed by Isro Tomita, RCA Red Seal, Recorded in Japan :)

And a pair of Leak speakers

They are amazingly heavy for their size , will open them up and meter them out , see if anything is open circuit
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[Audioflyer]

Just back from a car bootsale with this:-

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I was going to make an offer but before I could the chap said your's for a £10.00 :stalks: ???

Not see a silver RB300 tonearm before it also came in a wood box with the counter weight and locking nut.

Sharif.

[Audio Al]

Thats a super result :eyebrows:

[dantheman91]

Just back from a car bootsale with this:-

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I was going to make an offer but before I could the chap said your's for a £10.00 :stalks: ???

Not see a silver RB300 tonearm before it also came in a wood box with the counter weight and locking nut.

Sharif.

:eek: I will give you £20....:) Someone didn't have a clue what they had which is rare...

[Audioflyer]

I was going to offer £100.00 for the arm.

On another stall there were two sets of Quad 33 amd 303 £200.00 each set or make an offer on another stall, futher down the rows at another stall a Meridian 206 CD Player/Transport.

Sharif.

[dantheman91]

I was going to offer £100.00 for the arm.

On another stall there were two sets of Quad 33 amd 303 £200.00 each set or make an offer on another stall, futher down the rows at another stall a Meridian 206 CD Player/Transport.

Sharif.

Hi

I would love another pair of Quadies....:) you did well mate....

[Audioflyer]

I think someone was looking out for me as I needed another tonearm to replace the one on my Phonosophie No.3, the Thorens TP90 currently on the turntable is sticking at about 2/3 across an LP.

[Firebottle]

Missing the counterweight but that's fantastic, well done :thumbsup:

[farflungstar]

No, he scored the counterweight.

[Audioflyer]

Missing the counterweight but that's fantastic, well done :thumbsup:

It came with a 100g tungsten counterweight and the large locking nut.:)

Sharif.

[Barry]

Wow, that's a bargain and a half - well done!

Looks like the boot sales you go to are in a whole different league to the dross sales here.

[dantheman91]

Not boot sale but another charity shop - Rotel RD945AX for £6 :) They had only just put it out...have has the original instructions & purchase receipt :lol: im a sad b***ard really

[Barry]

Not much of interest seen today, apart from a Grundig TK14 reel-to reel machine and a rather sad-looking single channel Vortexion WVB machine with the Wright and Weaire tape mechanism.

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Didn’t ask how much the seller wanted for them.

There were the usual tatty-looking record collections, with sellers asking far too much (for example £30 for the Beatles first LP, often in dubious condition).

I only bought one LP and one DVD – hardly worth the 6 o’clock start and petrol costs.

[dantheman91]

Off to my local at 10 - haven't been for a good couple of months should be interesting with the same old shite and same sellers who knows..

[Audio Al]

Off to my local at 10 - haven't been for a good couple of months should be interesting with the same old shite and same sellers who knows..

Boot sales are all over by 6.30 am anything worth anything will be snapped up very early , enless your booty is a 10am start

[dantheman91]

10am start al i was first in to grab the following goodies

Mission 770 Freedoms , Tannoy J95 , Yamaha NS E40....:) :)

[Macca]

That's a good haul.

[dantheman91]

That's a good haul.

Indeed Martin - Just testing the missions all seems to be working well - that makes a change
I woke up and though i would go today - hot out their though was their less then an hour filled the car up...:)

All was cheap as chips.....

[dantheman91]

Tested all - working fine....:) :cool:

:yay:

The J95's have some weight to them they are in the the top 90 series along with my DC1000's

Both of these are going in my personal collection...:)

[Beobloke]

10am start al i was first in to grab the following goodies

Mission 770 Freedoms , Tannoy J95 , Yamaha NS E40....:) :)

Good haul, Dan!

What generation are the Missions? Any pictures?

[Macca]

The Yamaha NS E40 would seem to be a bit of a rarity, especially in full working order.

[dantheman91]

Good haul, Dan!

What generation are the Missions? Any pictures?

Hi Adam,

The missions i believe date from the mid to late 80's

Pictures below - No original stands unfortunately - The cabinets need a tidy up but otherwise sound..

[dantheman91]

The Yamaha NS E40 would seem to be a bit of a rarity, especially in full working order.

Hi Martin

Forgot to test them - will do it later on tonight - dont see why they wouldn't work immaculate condition.:)

[Barry]

Hi Adam,

The missions i believe date from the mid to late 80's

Pictures below - No original stands unfortunately - The cabinets need a tidy up but otherwise sound..

Nice find Dan. Those 770s are the only Missions I have heard and although that was back in the early '80s, I remember I was impressed.

[dantheman91]

Nice find Dan. Those 770s are the only Missions I have heard and although that was back in the early '80s, I remember I was impressed.

Yes Barry - Very good indeed - i had no idea of their current value i knew it was a little bit but looked last night i was surprised their again they were known in their day for being good. My dad remembers a show in bournemouth in the late 80's too i think it was at the BIC im not sure....

[dantheman91]

1 and half at work then of to the boot sale -

[dantheman91]

Nad 3020A today thats it....:)

[Audio Al]

14 Lp's from Sundays Boot sale , All rather different from my normal choises , :)

[Barry]

I've largely given up buying LPs at boot sales - I can often get better and cheaper in charity shops these days.

But I did pick up a rare three-LP box set of Beethoven's 3rd, 5th and 7th symphonies performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler in 1951-1954, so obviously in mono (Seraphim IC-6018. Seraphim were the top echelon of Angel Records, the US arm of EMI). All for the princely sum of £1. Both the records and the box are in pretty good condition, apart from the records being absolutely filthy. However a good clean on an RCM brought them up to a more than acceptable standard.

Picked up a five-DVD set of Ken Burn's 'Story of the Blues' for £7, which isn't too bad (the seller wanted £10, but I beat him down).

[struth]

I've largely given up buying LPs at boot sales - I can often get better and cheaper in charity shops these days.

But I did pick up a rare three-LP box set of Beethoven's 3rd, 5th and 7th symphonies performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler in 1951-1954, so obviously in mono (Seraphim IC-6018. Seraphim were the top echelon of Angel Records, the US arm of EMI). All for the princely sum of £1. Both the records and the box are in pretty good condition, apart from the records being absolutely filthy. However a good clean on an RCM brought them up to a more than acceptable standard.

Picked up a five-DVD set of Ken Burn's 'Story of the Blues' for £7, which isn't too bad (the seller wanted £10, but I beat him down).

paid a lot more for mine. its very good

[Barry]

Today’s boot sale gleanings:


Beethoven – ‘Symphony No.6 “Pastoral”

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir George Solti
Decca SXL 6763 (1975) 50p


Falla – ‘Nights in the gardens of Spain’, Isaac Albéniz – ‘Rapsodia española’, Joaquin Turina – Rapsodia sinfónica’

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Alicia de Larrocha (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Rafeal Frühbeck de Burgos
Decca 410 289-1 (1984) Ex library copy. 50p


Mozart – Piano Concertos 21 & 22

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Geza Anda, piano. Camerata Academica of the Salzberg Mozarteum, cond. Geza Anda
DGG 2535 317 (1962) £1.50


Tchaikovsky – ‘Swan Lake Ballet’

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(the sleeve of my copy is in much better condition than the above.)

Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra
Philips G 03545 L / GBL 5560 (no date) Mono. 50p


All in near mint condition.

[Audio Al]

Barry , can I assume you like classical music ;)

[dantheman91]

Sony Ta AX4 Amp
Teac CR 600 Receiver

Thats it for today.....£10 for the 2...

[Barry]

Today:

Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

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The Early Music Consort, directed by David Munrow
EMI SLS 989 (1979)

2-record boxed set, with 98 page illustrated booklet.

In perfect condition £1.00

Not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm interested in early music.



Plus a few CDs at 50p each.

[Lawrence001]

I've got a similar David Munroe album somewhere I'm sure but a single one.I do like some of the 70s early adopters of the period instrument movement, but I did think Christopher Hogwood and Trevor Pinnock move it up a notch by the end of the decade.

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[Barry]

I've got a similar David Munroe album somewhere I'm sure but a single one.I do like some of the 70s early adopters of the period instrument movement, but I did think Christopher Hogwood and Trevor Pinnock move it up a notch by the end of the decade.


I wouldn't disagree with you there, though one wonders what Munrow could have achieved had he not sadly taken his life at the early age of 34.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Munrow

[Lawrence001]

I hadn't realised that I had assumed he was older and retired while the younger ones took over the mantle I will listen to his recordings in a new light. I also have his Purcell "Come ye sons of art, away" and Music of the Gothic Era, the latter being one of my favourite early music vocal recordings.

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[Lawrence001]

They were both £1 charity shop purchases!

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[dantheman91]

Pair of Akai sw7 II speakers today...:)

[Audio Al]

Naff all at the boot sale today :(

[Barry]

Bought a couple of DVDs for £1.50. Ricky Lee Jones's first LP in good nick for £1.50, but bugger all else.

However my GF sold eighty quid's worth of stuff.

[Barry]

A few classical LPs:

J. S. Bach - 'Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo, No.1 in A minor, BWV 1041' and 'No.2 in E major, BWV 1042'

Members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. George Fischer: harpsichord. Violin and conductor: David Oistrakh.

J. S. Bach - 'Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo. D minor, BWV 1043'

David and Igor Oistrakh, violins, George Malcolm, harpsichord. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Sir Eugene Goossens

DGG 138 820 (1962)


Lalo - 'Symphony Espagnol for violin and orchestra, Op.21' and M. Ravel - '"Tzigane", Concert Rhapsody for violin and orchestra'

Ida Haendel, violin. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Karel Ancerl.

Supraphon SUA ST 50615 (1964)


Mahler - 'Symphony No.1'

London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Georg Solti

Decca SXL 6113 (1964)


Brahms - 'Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat, Op.83'[/B]

Wilhelm Backhaus, piano. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Karl Bohm

Decca SXL 6322 (1967)


All on lovely thick heavy vinyl, in excellent condition and complete with thick plastic outer sleeves. £1 each.

[Barry]

Bloody freezing today! All I bought was a 5V wall wart (to replace the one that charges up the portable vacuum cleaner, which I seem to have lost) and 4 DVDs. Total expenditure £4.

On the other hand sold £50's worth of stuff.