Wilson Audio speakers for $899 on CL in Florida!?!?!

fishbones
fishbones Posts: 947
edited April 2011 in The Clubhouse
I don't know much about the Wilson Audio line, especially older ones like these, but I thought this was interesting. They say they were $20K new back in their day. They have a strange design look to them, to me? No affiliation...

http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/ele/2331157770.html
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited April 2011
    Damn! too far away!
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2011
    Junk.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    Interesting. FIVE inch DOME mids? Crazy stuff!
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,610
    edited April 2011
    Theres so many reasons why that should suck by todays standards
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2011
    The top part of the box appears to be an open baffle design.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    Look at what they make now, why would you compare it to today's standards? That could be the kind of speaker Wilson wants back, just for the archive. I've seen it happen SEVERAL times (Polk, Klipsch, and Thiel), and sometimes they compensate by 'trading' the owner for a current model.

    ;)
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2011
    I wouldn't want a current model either. :P
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,610
    edited April 2011
    Someone should buy those and trade them for some Sophias
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • fishbones
    fishbones Posts: 947
    edited April 2011
    For a speaker lover/collector, these would probably be a must have in a collection.

    I wonder about the midrange multiple driver configuration too? I also wonder if these have been re-done, and not original, cause they look weird?
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited April 2011
    Yikes can you say midrange comb filtering.I'd opt for a pair of Blose 901's before those abortions.
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited April 2011
    pepster wrote: »
    The top part of the box appears to be an open baffle design.

    But it would still be a monopole not a dipole as there would be no rear wave output from the domes as they are sealed.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2011
    Not sure the top ones are sealed.

    3nf3mb3o15Y45V65R6b4ha31a73dedbe3122e.jpg

    Edit: I see what you are saying, the dome mids are sealed via damped rear chamber.:wink:
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited April 2011
    Interesting... Wilson must be ashamed of them, they're nowhere to be found on their company history timeline. :biggrin:
    design is where science and art break even.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2011
    I found them mentioned, $150,000!:eek:
    My favorite story took place about 1991. I went to a store to buy a CD player, in the realm of $700. This store also had high end stuff, including the Wilson Audio Music monoliths which sold for $150,000. He also sold the new Krell CD players which were $5,000 and $11,000 a little out of my bracket. He didn?t want to play the Sony $700 ES unit, but wanted me to buy one of the Krell units. I asked if I could hear it on the Wilson Speakers. He said no, not unless I buy the Krell $11,000 unit. (He had the speakers on when I walked in, it?s not like he had to set them up.) he would not even play the Sony for me, I had to buy it. He then said he had no return policy for it. Never having heard the unit (or the Wilson?s) I left and bought the unit elsewhere.


    I get the feeling the above audio store is no longer in business!:biggrin:
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    I've sent the pic to my friend Deborah Wilson, I'll update when she replies.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited April 2011
    Name dropper.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited April 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    I've sent the pic to my friend Deborah Wilson, I'll update when she replies.

    Braggart!!!
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited April 2011
    Face wrote: »
    I wouldn't want a current model either. :P

    I would.
    -Kevin
    HT: Philips 52PFL7432D 52" LCD 1080p / Onkyo TX-SR 606 / Oppo BDP-83 SE / Comcast cable. (all HDMI)B&W 801 - Front, Polk CS350 LS - Center, Polk LS90 - Rear
    2 Channel:
    Oppo BDP-83 SE
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    She's a looker too. ;)
    George Grand wrote: »
    Name dropper.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,412
    edited April 2011
    newrival wrote: »
    Interesting... Wilson must be ashamed of them, they're nowhere to be found on their company history timeline. :biggrin:

    I also went out and looked at all the web site and didn't see anything that remotely resembled those, but the web site is a treat especially the user photos.....Some damn fine equipment in those pictures
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited April 2011
    Eh..just because they aren't listed doesn't make them a dog. Who knows,30 years from now,you may not see the SRT's on this site, sda array,crosstalk, can't possibly sound good. Just sayin' is all, don't judge by appearance gents.
    HT SYSTEM-
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2011
    RuSsMaN wrote: »
    She's a looker too. ;)
    That I'll agree with!
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited April 2011
    Dave if he saw the ad would probably say to himself "I thought I destroyed all those!"

    They look just awful, and if they played music, probably even more awfuler (haha not a word).

    If he would be willing to trade me a new pair I would like the Maxx 3 or even the Alex. series 2. a 70K or 180K speaker for 900 thats a good deal to me!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    Debbie says 'no' as being original Wilson - apparently more than a few in the era were using 'Wilson' as a namesake.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • fishbones
    fishbones Posts: 947
    edited April 2011
    Good to know! Thanks for checking for us.
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited April 2011
    those are 10 min from me...some kid w cash needs to buy those for his eminem mp2s
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited April 2011
    edit: nm
    design is where science and art break even.
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