Hi, By best trash to treasure story for audio is....
My local dump AKA recycling station has a "Take it or Leave it". A place to put unwanted goods if you dont want to put them on Ebay, want to have a tag sale or feel its just to good to be put in the crusher. I puruse it several times a week and some times several time a day, if I happen to be passing by.
A couple of years a go, I was on my way to work when I stopped in to take a look see. I approaghed the "Take it or Leave it" shack, an open lean-to about 10 feet by 20 feet, when I see a pair of speakers. Not just any speakers, this is Audiogon,afterall, but a pair of Super Quads! Thats right, Quads with the RTR tweeters and the KEF? woofers.
Well the woofers were not there but I loaded these up and drove off to work.
The next day as I examined them and I saw a phone number and name on them with property theft info in case they ever went missing. I called the guy and he told me he had them since new and disposed of them as he knew no one that wanted them. The seperate woofer system he gave to his nephew for subs. I tried to get the subs back to match them up again to no avail. Sold them to someone more intereseted in them than myself as I was allready using my pair of Acoustat6
Bob