Quote Originally Posted by Ali Tait View Post
It's the same thing with amps like the Quad II, Stereo 20 and Radford gear.Always were collector's items in recent years,but ebay put the prices through the stratosphere.The Quad and Leak are nice amps,but not world-beaters,yet command very silly prices now.Radford gear was always in a different class IMHO,and never was cheap secondhand,but again ebay has a lot to answer for here.
The magazines also have an effect on the price of older gear - For example, I remember seeing the begining of the rise of Radford gear straight after HiFi World tested a rebuilt STA15. (I paid £250 for mine!!)