Thoughts on these? Good deal or not?

dbKiller

I live down near Tampa and found this listing on Craigslist. I have never had heard any of the vintage speakers but they seem to have a good following.

http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/ele/4279914347.html

JayCee

RUN, RUN, RUN. Upgraded caps, tweets, etc....if as described, $500 less than I paid for my 1.2tl's before mods. You won't be disappointed. Do look them over very closely and ask for specifics on the XO's.

dbKiller

I showed these to a friend, also a Polk owner and on this forum and we were talking about riding to audition these. I would love to see and hear these first hand. They are beast from what I have seen in photos.

dbKiller

JayCee, how is the bass output on these? I can only imagine the mids and highs from stock units.

heartystatue

I,m surprised they are still available.

JayCee

dbKiller wrote: »

JayCee, how is the bass output on these? I can only imagine the mids and highs from stock units.

Very good...you won't need a sub. If properly set up they can hit you in the chest. But, they are big and do need space to breath. 6' apart or more and at least 3-4' from any corner. Small rooms tend to bloat the bass and muddy the mids.

dbKiller

Yeah, I am in between houses and living in an aprtment at the moment. I would love to get these with an amp for 2 channel music. I do believe at the least my friend and I will go give them a look. Would be sweet in a man cave.

JayCee

nbrowser wrote: »

So stop posting here and go DO IT!, don't forget to take a grand cash with you...hehe

+1 :-)

dbKiller

I will hopefully be able to make it up there tomorrow after work. They will make my old RT2000P look like bookshelf units im sure.

Toolfan66

The tweeters are RDO-198's, and the XO's are Sonicaps, and mills resistors, and are 1.2tl upgraded... A $1000 is a steal...

dbKiller

Looking at them on Google raises another question, how power hungry are they?

EndersShadow

DSkip wrote: »

Deal with power later.... grab them. That's $400 alone saved in upgrading tweeters, not to mention all the crossover work. You're getting a $12-1500 speaker for under $600 bones and you don't have the headache of doing the work yourself.

Unless I am missing it, the list price is 1k, so either I am illiterate (likely) or he raised his price..

vmaxer

I'd take them in a heartbeat.

EndersShadow

DSkip wrote: »

Unmodded ones go for 1.2 to 1.5k from everything I've seen. Getting these for $1k is equivalent to getting a stock pair for under $600.

Gotcha.

dbKiller

Well I was informed by the warden late last night that if I bring another set of speakers into the house before selling some I will have to move my clothes out. I have 2 Polk setups and a complete Paradigm setup, and the Paradigm is sitting in a spare room not being used. So that being said, Unfortunately I am not going to be able to pick these up at the moment if anyone else is in Florida and wants them!

Velocitydreamer

If I weren't as broke as a hobo, I'd nab em ;P I still think we should demo just to hear them

dbKiller wrote: »

Well I was informed by the warden late last night that if I bring another set of speakers into the house before selling some I will have to move my clothes out. I have 2 Polk setups and a complete Paradigm setup, and the Paradigm is sitting in a spare room not being used. So that being said, Unfortunately I am not going to be able to pick these up at the moment if anyone else is in Florida and wants them!

dbKiller

I would love to see them and hear them. They look pretty good, seller sent me some photos this morning.

PolishDude

I believe he was asking $800 for these last week on CL

dbKiller

He may have been, I spotted them 2 days ago and were priced @ $1000. He emailed me a few photos and I tried to post them but my smart phone is acting dumb. I will try from my laptop later today just in case anyone wants to see them.