Am I nuts?

bored184
bored184 Posts: 324
edited November 2013 in Vintage Speakers
My old habit of perusing craigslist is back in full swing. I found a set of Polk Monitor 7's with the silver coil tweeter that look to be in pretty good shape that are about 4hrs away. When the seller gets back with me on a price and if its less then $30.00 I am thinking about going and looking at them. I need more speakers like I need a hole in the head, am I nuts for driving 4hrs to go look at them?
Speakers: TL Monitor 10s, RTA 11TLs, Fortes, Thiel CS 1.2
Amplifiers: ]Ashly FTX 2001 III, Dynaco ST-70, DIY F6
Pre: Adcom GFP 750, Aikido Tube Pre
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  • bigaltx24
    bigaltx24 Posts: 141
    edited January 2013
    My wife would vote yes, I would vote no, especially for some Monitor 7s.
    Denon PMA-900V
    Linn Axis with Grado Red
    Cambridge Azur 650C
    Polk SDA-1BTL
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 882
    edited January 2013
    I would say you are nuts if it is 4 hours 1 way. Kind of a wash if its 4 hours round trip, you are bored, and you want to play with some fun speakers. But I think it should be cracklist.org. when "craigslook" used to work i would search my entire area routinely. Drove 4 hours for my SDA 2.3s and 4 hours for an RT5000p set. Even drove 3 hours for an RT800/ RT 55 ht set up that I repaired and resold. Have fun!
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited January 2013
    Drive 4 hours for $30.00 speakers? You're nuts for even thinking about it.screwy.gif
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • michael1947
    michael1947 Posts: 775
    edited January 2013
    Yup way nuts.
    Main Family Room: Sony 46 LCD, Sony Blue Ray, Sony DVD/VCR combo,Onkyo TXNR 708, Parasound 5250,
    Polk SDS-SRS with mods, CSI 5 center + Klipsch SC2, Polk RT2000P rears, Klipsch KG 1.5's sides, Polk Micro Pro 1000, Polk Micro Pro 2000, Polk SW505, Belkin PF60, Signal Cable Classics,Monster IC's, 2 15 amp circuits & 1 20 amp circuit.

    Living Room: Belkin PF60, Parasound HCA2200, MIT ProlineEXP balanced IC's,Emotiva XDA-1 DAC/Pre,Emotiva ERC2 transport,MIT AVT2, Polk LSI 9's.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
    edited January 2013
    yup. nuts.
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  • Mystery
    Mystery Posts: 2,546
    edited January 2013
    I'd not drive 4 hours even if they were free.
    And if that's one way, u crazy.

    Klipsch RB81, KG3.5, B&W DM602.5, Polk.
    Subwoofers: Klipsch RW10, Triad ProSub Bronze.
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    edited January 2013
    Super nutty! And I thought I was bad!!:lol:
    "if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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  • chumlie
    chumlie Posts: 8,658
    edited January 2013
    bored184. How bored are ya ? Do you enjoy driving ?
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,442
    edited January 2013
    bored184 wrote: »
    My old habit of perusing craigslist is back in full swing. I found a set of Polk Monitor 7's with the silver coil tweeter that look to be in pretty good shape that are about 4hrs away. Am I nuts for driving 4hrs to go look at them?

    completely certifiably insane
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  • bored184
    bored184 Posts: 324
    edited January 2013
    chumlie wrote: »
    bored184. How bored are ya ? Do you enjoy driving ?

    I love driving. I am big fan of audio books, driving is about the only time I get to listen to them any more.

    As far as the Monitor 7's I didnt know if they were worth it. I love my SDA 1c's, which I will be happily using again tonight:cheesygrin:, but I would like something a little smaller for the bedroom. I had to pull some gear out of rotation to properly run the SDA's so now I want to create a bedroom setup.
    Speakers: TL Monitor 10s, RTA 11TLs, Fortes, Thiel CS 1.2
    Amplifiers: ]Ashly FTX 2001 III, Dynaco ST-70, DIY F6
    Pre: Adcom GFP 750, Aikido Tube Pre
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  • nhhiep
    nhhiep Posts: 877
    edited January 2013
    would it be much cheaper to ship them? yep, you're way beyond nuts :)
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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,526
    edited January 2013
    Monitor 7's come up pretty frequently. Not worth a 4 hr round trip.
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  • bored184
    bored184 Posts: 324
    edited January 2013
    Thanks for all the comments, I will probably pass on the monitors. This time year I get cabin fever pretty bad. I am an out doorsman at heart and most of my main interests start in the spring and last till the fall. My remedy for this is usually to go ice fishing and listen to my music while I tinker. With the warm spells we have had here in Indiana I dont trust the ice being thick enough so I find myself really tinkering with my audio equipment. I really want to tinker with my SDA's but I am trying to hold off and listen to them stock.
    Speakers: TL Monitor 10s, RTA 11TLs, Fortes, Thiel CS 1.2
    Amplifiers: ]Ashly FTX 2001 III, Dynaco ST-70, DIY F6
    Pre: Adcom GFP 750, Aikido Tube Pre
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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    edited January 2013
    Buy the kit to upgrade the crossovers. You can fully assemble them short of mounting them and have them ready to go.
    I can relate to the cabin fever thing. It's why my wife is getting angrier each day when I bring home some new piece of audio gear.
    "Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."

    "Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
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  • bored184
    bored184 Posts: 324
    edited January 2013
    ZLTFUL wrote: »
    Buy the kit to upgrade the crossovers. You can fully assemble them short of mounting them and have them ready to go.
    I can relate to the cabin fever thing. It's why my wife is getting angrier each day when I bring home some new piece of audio gear.

    There is a kit?
    Speakers: TL Monitor 10s, RTA 11TLs, Fortes, Thiel CS 1.2
    Amplifiers: ]Ashly FTX 2001 III, Dynaco ST-70, DIY F6
    Pre: Adcom GFP 750, Aikido Tube Pre
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited January 2013
    4 hours for 7's? You are nuttier than squirrel turds if you do that! Now if it were SDA's, LS70/90...along those lines then yeah I would go for it.

    Also, about those kits on ebay. I would not go that route. I would order caps from Madisound or PE.
    --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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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited January 2013
    halo71 wrote: »
    4 hours for 7's? You are nuttier than squirrel turds if you do that! Now if it were SDA's, LS70/90...along those lines then yeah I would go for it.

    Also, about those kits on ebay. I would not go that route. I would order caps from Madisound or PE.[/QUOT


    The squirrel crack is just to f-ing funny. But yea u qualify as ****.
    Main Rig:
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    Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
    MIT exp 1 ic's
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    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.
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  • attym
    attym Posts: 33
    edited November 2013
    Its an excuse for a nice drive
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  • audio_alan
    audio_alan Posts: 770
    edited November 2013
    Until you can fill your living room with speakers, you're not nuts yet. ;-)
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited November 2013
    I look at it this way. M-7s, a "classic" definitely worth a lot more than $30. If it were me, I'd work out a deal with the owner (if he is trustworthy) to pre-pay for these and have him "hold" till I could find an excuse to plot my way 4 hours on a trip where I was getting a lot of other things done on the way there and back. Where picking up the speakers becomes "secondary" and not the main reason for the trip. I've done this with a guy about 2 1/2 hours way. It took me 2-3 months to actually pick the speakers up. In the end he actually had a business trip half way to me so I took my daughter to the big city about 1 hour 10 minutes away and we did the exchange in a parking lot.

    You have to get creative. And it depends on how badly you want to hear something. I was lucky, my 7s were only 30 minutes away. But my SDA's made it from Lightman's (N.C.) house, to Noah's in Pa., to Maine (it took months to arrange for that and Russ was only too happy to ferry them to Pa. which is where I was visiting family and friends and could do the pick up! And Russman was driving up to a local Polk get together at Noah's where I got to meet a number of Polkies while I was looking over the SDAs and listening to a lot of other cool stuff. Win, win!

    cnh
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

    Polk Lsi-7s, Def Tech 8" sub, HK 3490, HK HD 990 (CDP/DAC), AKG Q701s
    [sig. changed on a monthly basis as I rotate in and out of my stash]
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,761
    edited November 2013
    I drove 3 hours each way for my LS90's. Worth every mile...
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited November 2013
    4 hours each way? For a pair of 7s? I wouldn't drive to Boston for a pair, and that's only 90 miles from me. A cherry pair of SDAs would be another matter.
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  • markamerica
    markamerica Posts: 203
    edited November 2013
    I can concur: Monitor 7 and a four hour one-way trip? Nah, that's too nutty even for me. Full disclosure: I have made a 1350 mile round trip for a pair of 1.2TLs. Total cost of fuel/trip/speakers? $1200 and my time. That's nutty enough.
    SDA SRS, SDA SRS1.2TL, SDA-1C,SDA 2B, Soundcraftsmen Amplification (A5002s, MA5002s, MA5002As)
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  • Summerwind2
    Summerwind2 Posts: 98
    edited November 2013
    its the passion that drives you.
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  • MAD
    MAD Posts: 105
    edited November 2013
    I've realized that it's all about having no regrets.

    If you think you will be fixated and kicking yourself still a month or years down the road for not getting them, thats something toconsider. If you think you'll forget about them shortly, then let em go.

    4 hours is a trek for sure. But I have had speakers that I've missed out on and have checked various craigslists everyday for oneand a half years hoping to come across them again.

    The scary part is I was at a point where any good deal I would grab and before you know it, you have too many speakers to deal with. I could make any excuse not to sell them. Making cuts is a hard thing to do.

    A little bit of me dies every time I sell a pair of speakers but I'm over that now and have learned to be more selective in my purchases. I am slowly selling parts of my collection.
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  • bored184
    bored184 Posts: 324
    edited November 2013
    I guess I probably should weigh in on what I decided to do since I started this post in January of this year. I decided to let the Monitor 7s go. Spending that much time in car just seemed to ridiculous for a pair of monitor speakers, a pair of of large SDAs would of been a different matter all together.
    Speakers: TL Monitor 10s, RTA 11TLs, Fortes, Thiel CS 1.2
    Amplifiers: ]Ashly FTX 2001 III, Dynaco ST-70, DIY F6
    Pre: Adcom GFP 750, Aikido Tube Pre
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited November 2013
    W/e, you just re-prioritized since you got Kappa 8's
    "....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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