What is the rarest item in your system?
What is the rarest item in your system?
We have already been asked what is the oldest item in your audio system and what is the heaviest?
Well now, what is the rarest item in your system?
For me it is my Breuer Dynamic Type 5A pickup arm. Hand made by the late Herr Breuer in Lausanne, Switzerland it was imported in small quantities by Linn Products to replace the Grace 707 arm that partnered the Linn LP12 turntable.
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...-5A-pickup-arm
The Breuer Type 5 arm was later replaced by the even rarer Type 8; does anyone have one of those?
The second and third reasonably rare items I have (but do not use) are the Quad AM1 and AM3 tuner.
Only 2500 and 2000 units respectively of these were sold.
I have a Quad 520f professional amplifier fitted with Neutrik Speakon connectors of which only 3000 were sold, so is reasonably rare. Though not as rare as the single channel 510 similarly fitted with Neutriks, of which only 600 were sold.
One other item that is a little unusual, but probably not particularly rare, is an ‘American’ SME S2 perforated headshell with a raised logo. Usually the logo is “SME”, but since Shure and SME distributed one another’s products in their respective countries, SME arms made for export to the US had “Shure SME” as the logo. However rarer still would be the S2 headshell SME made available to Radford for use with the B&O SP6/7 that Radford imported and distributed at the time. The headshell had a silver finish, rather than black, and had “Radford” written on the raised nameplate.
So what rare and/or odd items do you have out there? Does anyone use the original Naim 200 poweramps? Or possess the rare Quad 240 poweramp, of which only 180 were made.
How about the Quad 50 monoblock amp (not the 50D or 50E) or even the Quad 40!
Come on now – ‘fess up.
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Originally Posted by walpurgis
