There are no words for this...

Drenis
Drenis Posts: 2,871
edited November 2012 in Vintage Speakers
So look what popped up for sale locally...

http://winnipeg.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-electronics-all-old-school-equpment-all-just-not-speakers-W0QQAdIdZ430268464

...what the hell was this guy thinking? Can YOU spot what's wrong with this picture?

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...WOW :eek:
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  • goofyGAguy
    goofyGAguy Posts: 545
    edited November 2012
    Sacrilege.
    My humble setup...

    ...is no more. :cry:
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited November 2012
    He should be burned at the stake....along with those speakers.
    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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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2012
    Laminate a piece of .5" or .75" MDF over the existing baffle and start over.
    "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: 28,646
    edited November 2012
    Now THAT is a frankenpolk! HAHHAHA
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited November 2012
    Wow. I never cease to be amazed at what some people will do.
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited November 2012
    It's even funnier if you actually read the entire ad.
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  • nikonik
    nikonik Posts: 120
    edited November 2012
    Thanks for the laugh! Ive heard of stuff like that but have never seen anything so fu till today.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,726
    edited November 2012
    I dunno ...... that pic makes me kind of horny.
    Sal Palooza
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  • philr168
    philr168 Posts: 91
    edited November 2012
    whyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited November 2012
    perhaps he should consider another hobby,
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited November 2012
    Hang em
    Main Rig:
    Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
    Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
    Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
    MIT exp 1 ic's
    Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
    AQ kingcobra ic's
    OPPO 83 CDP
    Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
    Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
    Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
    ADS L1590/2 Biamped
    MIT exps2 speaker cable
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited November 2012
    Clue me in, what's wrong with the speaker? I know nothing about them.
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • deronb1
    deronb1 Posts: 5,021
    edited November 2012
    I'm curious if those "extra" drivers are even active. The guy probably saw some blank space and thought they would look more bad **** with more stuff. As far as the giant woofer? No idea what he was thinking. Unless he is an evil genius, there is no way to make it active with the stock boards and wires.
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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited November 2012
    Oh - My - God! :eek: I always thought frankenpolks such as these were more of an urban legend than reality? Nice pink listening room :cheesygrin:

    Curious though, I wonder what they sound like?
    "Science is suppose to explain observations not dismiss them as impossible" - Norm on AA; 2.3TL's w/sonicaps/mills/jantzen inductors, Gimpod's boards, Lg Solen SDA inductors, RD-0198's, MW's dynamatted, Armaflex speaker gaskets, H-nuts, brass spikes, Cardas CCGR BP's, upgraded IC Cable, Black Hole Damping Sheet strips, interior of cabinets sealed with Loctite Power Grab, AI-1 interface with 1000VA A-L transformer
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  • drgalexo
    drgalexo Posts: 159
    edited November 2012
    I think it's photoshop, you couldn't be thinking.
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  • Oldmanind
    Oldmanind Posts: 49
    edited November 2012
    what a shame
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  • newrival
    newrival Posts: 2,017
    edited November 2012
    photoshop for an obscure for sale ad? Not likely.

    I do want to hear them though.
    design is where science and art break even.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited November 2012
    Send Liam Neeson in before it's too late.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited November 2012
    He must be one of them there "a u d i o f i l e s" making homebrewed improvements
    Home Theater/2 Channel:
    Front: SDA-2ATL forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/143984/my-2as-finally-finished-almost/p1
    Center: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/150760/my-center-channel-project/p1
    Surrounds & Rears: Custom Built forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/151647/my-surround-project/p1
    Sonicaps, Mills, RDO-194s-198s, Dynamat, Hurricane Nuts, Blackhole5
    Pioneer Elite VSX-72TXV, Carver PM-600, SVS PB2-Plus Subwoofer

    dhsspeakerservice.com/
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  • OldmanSRS
    OldmanSRS Posts: 419
    edited November 2012
    The red walls don't go well with them :-)?
    '65 427 Shelby Cobra
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    __________________
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    '86 Polk SDA CRS+
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    Four Polk T-15's
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    edited November 2012
    I bet they sound magical!
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited November 2012
    Drenis, its almost worth a drive on your part to verify if this is a "legit" frankenpolk sighting and see just how bad they are butchered internally.

    As some said it could just be that those are not even active, but who knows.....

    Might be a fun way to spend a couple hours lol
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited November 2012
    The sh**ty part is they look like they USED to be 2.3TL's
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited November 2012
    redroom redroom it's The Shining!
    :evil:But looking at the speakers are worse than watch the Exorcist
    OldmanSRS wrote: »
    The red walls don't go well with them :-)?
    POLK SDA 2.3 TLS BOUGHT NEW IN 1990, Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-198
    POLK CSI-A6 POLK MONITOR 70'S ONKYO TX NR-808 SONY CDP-333ES
    PIONEER PL-510A SONY BDP S5100
    POLK SDA 1C BOUGHT USED 2011,Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-194
    ONKYO HT RC-360 SONY BDP S590 TECHNICS SL BD-1
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited November 2012
    decal wrote: »
    Clue me in, what's wrong with the speaker? I know nothing about them.


    You kidding right?
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • chandler9a
    chandler9a Posts: 878
    edited November 2012
    That's actually hard to look at. Really.
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  • PolkieMan
    PolkieMan Posts: 2,446
    edited November 2012
    Clue me in, what's wrong with the speaker? I know nothing about them.

    nothing you should buy them :lol:
    halo71 wrote: »
    You kidding right?
    POLK SDA 2.3 TLS BOUGHT NEW IN 1990, Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-198
    POLK CSI-A6 POLK MONITOR 70'S ONKYO TX NR-808 SONY CDP-333ES
    PIONEER PL-510A SONY BDP S5100
    POLK SDA 1C BOUGHT USED 2011,Gimpod/Sonic Caps/Mills RDO-194
    ONKYO HT RC-360 SONY BDP S590 TECHNICS SL BD-1
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  • oldmodman
    oldmodman Posts: 740
    edited November 2012
    He had a bunch of midrange horns and 075 screamers sitting around and just couldn't let them go to waste.

    So he wasted his pair of Polks.
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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited November 2012
    I bet that active PR sounds good, too.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited November 2012
    halo71 wrote: »
    You kidding right?
    PolkieMan wrote: »
    Clue me in, what's wrong with the speaker? I know nothing about them.

    nothing you should buy them :lol:

    No, I'm not kidding. I don't know jack about Polk speakers. I do know when someone is being an a-hole though.
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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