This weekend’s treasure find was a perfect find for Father’s Day, because it gave the boys something to do when my lad came down to bring his stepdad a few beers and have vegie tacos with us for Sunday lunch. The Marantz amp that my Dad had given us ten years ago (an excellent quality one at the time, and if it hadn’t blown, would still be awesome) had bitten the bullet so for the last few months we’ve been just listening to the sound from the television through the television. That kinda sucks – listening to the season finale of Game of Thrones is definitely not as thunderingly awesome as it is pumping through an amp and some good speakers. Oh, and the telly? That’s another hand me down from Dad, who does like to update his tech, meaning we get good quality second hand for a budget price. I swear Dad just updates for us sometimes. We have a woman who we sold our last two tellies to when Dad updated, so we have her number saved as she insists we just call her so the tech passes down the line.
I am so not a fan of buying new just for the sake of it, even if I really, really want it. I won’t get a loan for something no matter how much I want it, and I’ll always look for second hand over brand new. And new isn’t always necessarily the best anyway – sometimes old school can do just the job, or secondhand still be as thumpingly awesome as something that just rolled off the shelf. Waiting for what we want calls for patience, but if it’s meant to be, it WILL come your way. We’ve been waiting for months for a new amp. Months. Jamie had almost even considered new.
So, Sunday morning the man was doing his usual thumb through Facebook Marketplace and shoving Landrovers in my face and saying ‘Can I please buy this one’ when he finally found it. A new amp for $50. Not only that, but all the speakers. The subwoofer alone is still worth $600 bucks on the marketplace.
The whole thing new would have been around 2500 bucks – the guy just said ‘he had too much stuff’ and wanted rid of it. Seriously. Too much stuff? The system’s worth serious money to us, and we know we could have easily sold it on and made at least a grand’s profit – but we needed a good sound system for the television and to play our tunes through. Whilst we don’t need a CD player we do need to play Spotify or plug our phones in to listen to Jamie’s dub mixes which he finds online – thumping tunes makes us happy some days when silence doesn’t.
The boy is doing a degree in Audio and Sound engineering so it was sweet to watch the two of them chat sound systems (Jamie used to have a reggae sound system in England back in the day so knows a thing or too about the tech) and drink a beer or two.
Seriously though. Fifty bucks. What a treasurefind!
First song on new stereo?
Sounded freaking awesome!
And the old speakers? Perfectly good Bang and Olufsen speakers - they went to my son. Because we always should do as this quote says -
'Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist' - Alistair Begg
If you'd like to use the #treasurefinds tag, you'll be in the running to win 50 Steem. As things are slow at the moment (even more so this week due to the Hard Fork!) I'm going to collect all them in a post draft and make a decision when I hit 50 #treasurefinds posts, even if that takes til Christmas. You can post anything you like - from charity shop finds to gemstones, old family photos hidden in attics to a plant pushing up from the concrete in the middle of a city, to an old book you've been searching for for years, to a collection of ammonites and feathers on a windowsill. As long as it's a 'find' and makes your heart jump for joy, it's in the running. You can read the original post here.
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