junius wrote:
John S. wrote:
Actually for my first decent tabletop receiver I paid $400.00 new for
a Kenwood R5000, added the filters, memory option and a few other
goodies.

Wow, where did you get a new R5000 for $400.00? I remember pricing
those back in 1989, and the best price I could find was $779.95....

Gilfer...(remember them) were selling them for a good price early on.
The yen went out of sight and Kenwood jacked the price up.