Craigslist DC - Deal of the year

dee1949
dee1949 Posts: 1,425
edited August 2010 in The Clubhouse
...Wish I was younger and had a truck. These are Altec 19 speakers. Drivers worth 4x the price

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/ele/1903652137.html

....great for Tube guys!!! Anybody ever heard these>? Some people like them better than Klipschorn...especially in a smaller room. They are only a 2 way.
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited August 2010
    http://vintagehifipgh.com/forum/index.php?topic=649.0
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,726
    edited August 2010
    My brother would be drooling due to the good deal. He's a huge Altec fan and I think he has already owned a pair of 19s. Not my cup of tea though. DC would probably be a bit too far for him, although he did recently drive about 600 miles round trip to get a set of Altec 604H (which he prefers due to the smaller footprint).
    For rig details, see my profile. Nothing here anymore...
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  • texas ed
    texas ed Posts: 139
    edited August 2010
    The ad calls them Aztec.So which are they?I remember the old Altecs and they were killer...
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited August 2010
    If you want these....I and my truck are close by and at your service. You gotta buy me a beer and a sandwich tho.;)
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited August 2010
    ...From the picture and googling....They must be Altec. Typo ...i guess. Look exactly like the Altec's......unless there was a copy cat.

    Ciao GDB!!

    Don't have the room.....I settled on Maggies. But the price is right for the younger crowd. What set of NEW speakers can you buy for $300.00. In DC ...that is about the price for 30 drinks at a bar with tip...of course.

    ...or a pair of ParidigmAtom's"
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  • Slinger182
    Slinger182 Posts: 512
    edited August 2010
    He also call's them "Two-way stuchio monitors" which I assume means studio
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited August 2010
    texas ed wrote: »
    The ad calls them Aztec.So which are they?I remember the old Altecs and they were killer...

    Those are Altecs.
    -Kevin
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited August 2010
    ...back when I was in college , here, in DC. I was a member of what we called... " The Fine Arts Council"...we provided entertainment and CULTURE to the University. We had concerts with "the Byrds" - "Mountain" - "Sha Nah Na" and many others. For on campus parties we used "Voice of the Theartre" speakers. We often brought them home to play with at private parties. Of course we made enemies with our neighbors. But what was college all about in the "60's". Alien-nation!!!
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,426
    edited August 2010
    texas ed wrote: »
    The ad calls them Aztec.So which are they?I remember the old Altecs and they were killer...

    Little known fact, but the Aztec was the earliest documented 3rd-world-country produced speakers ripping off popular brands.

    Here we see a shifty-looking man attempting to convince some poor sap that the retail value of the Aztecs he has in the back were left over from an install job, and his boss won't want them back in the warehouse, so he's willing to let them go for well under their usual price.

    MYKGAZERweb.jpg
    "Honest, these babies cost $350! Would I lie to you? Look at the price tag conveniently stuck to the side of the box!"

    Only if you gave him 80 of your hard-earned dollars, you'd take these home to find that the cabinets were made out of wood thinner than the sweet new paneling your folks just put in the den and that there wasn't even a driver behind that horn waveguide.

    Yep, just another pair of white van speakers on Craigslist!

    ;) Jay
    Jay
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited August 2010
    ...if they are white van speakers .....they must have one gigantic van to haul these suckers around. Image on left from Craigslist.......on right - known Altec's
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,384
    edited August 2010
    texas ed wrote: »
    The ad calls them Aztec.So which are they?I remember the old Altecs and they were killer...

    White van knock-offs?:rolleyes:;):D


    The rectangular port on the side of the driver appears to be missing on the CL speakers...
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited August 2010
    ...that yellow rectangle looks to be a foam insert into port to dampen bass output.
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  • agfrost
    agfrost Posts: 2,426
    edited August 2010
    My post was a joke, of course.

    Jay
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited August 2010
    The shiny pleated compliance on the woofer is the "giveaway" that those are the real thing. Knock-offs would have foam surrounds.
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited August 2010
    stuchio. haha
    humpty dumpty was pushed
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2010
    They're real, I went and saw them.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • dee1949
    dee1949 Posts: 1,425
    edited August 2010
    dorokusai wrote: »
    They're real, I went and saw them.


    Well, did you buy them?? What did they sound like? They are monsters for monitors.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,384
    edited August 2010
    dorokusai wrote: »
    They're real, I went and saw them.

    Let me be the first to congratulate you on hitting the 20k post milestone.:cool::cool::)

    You should be there by the time I log in again...
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited August 2010
    dee1949 wrote: »
    Well, did you buy them?? What did they sound like? They are monsters for monitors.

    Nah, I passed. I just wanted to see them. I've owned and parted out enough Altec's over the years.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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