This is really a 2 part story! About 12 years ago, I was visiting my mother when she lived in NM. I was bored and picked up a thrifty nickle newspaper. I saw an advertisement about a single JBL speaker with supertweeters that was about 4 feet tall for $100.00. The ad just didn't sound right, so I thought "what the hell" and called. What the guy said on the phone made no sense about the supertweeter, but he said the speaker was from about 1960. I had my mother take me to the guys house and we opened the door and saw a mint JBL Hartsfield! I gave the guy the $100.00 he wanted, and then had to ship it for $400.00 back to Chicago! The guy really was more concerned that someone buy it who appreciated it then the money.
I used that speaker for about 8 years until all my vintage audio collection was sold to pay lawyers fees during a nasty divorce. Who knows, maybe it was Kharma for only paying that guy $100.00 but maybe not. There were 2 assets that were being considered by the court to be immediately sold to pay off the attorneys. Those two assets were my vintage gear and some Panera Bread stock that I had been holding for a couple of years at a loss (while the rest of the market was steamrolling ahead). To make a long story short, the gear was sold at less than half its value by the court and I was crushed. Meanwhile, the Panera Bread stock went up 800% in the next 18 months. The moral of the story is be careful what you pray for!
I used that speaker for about 8 years until all my vintage audio collection was sold to pay lawyers fees during a nasty divorce. Who knows, maybe it was Kharma for only paying that guy $100.00 but maybe not. There were 2 assets that were being considered by the court to be immediately sold to pay off the attorneys. Those two assets were my vintage gear and some Panera Bread stock that I had been holding for a couple of years at a loss (while the rest of the market was steamrolling ahead). To make a long story short, the gear was sold at less than half its value by the court and I was crushed. Meanwhile, the Panera Bread stock went up 800% in the next 18 months. The moral of the story is be careful what you pray for!