As one that don't have a big problem of spending $400 for a single tape or $50 for one LP, I do like to rummage for bargains. Besides, my resource of cash limits the extravagant purchases.

A couple of weeks ago there was an add in Facebook's marketplace that read something like hundreds of albums for sale, possibly a thousand for $100. The pictures showed some old shellac 78's along with cardboard boxes, plastic/wooden crates, and totes full of albums.

The location of the albums was within 10 miles of home at an old mansion. The owner turned out to be a catfish of estate liquidations. He had all four levels of this mansion full of excess items from estate sales. There was many 78s(150 actually) in the album lot sale. The few looked at close seemed to be in excellent shape. There was 45s(100) and over 700 LPs. Nothing really to brag about other then the shear quantity. The 78s sold me! The lot filled my wife's Sonic and exposed its lack of power under load on the way home.

The catfish helped me load the car. I went back in the mansion to see what else might be of interest. In the basement, a set of ladder jacks was found, on the porch a set of artist fountain pens popped up, the first floor dining room produced another small lot of albums, the kitchen table supported a harmonic in C. Second floor had a couple of boxes of reel to reel tapes(175 7" reels of which half were brand new prerecorded retail releases) under the front set of windows. I never made it to the top floor and made arrangements to pick up the tapes.

So, for the price of a set of ladder jacks at Home Depot, all of the items above made it home

John

One full range speaker, analog guts, does a fine job filling the shop with tunes.