Modded 2.3TLs w/ 1000 va Dreadnaught and custom MIT Shotgun cables

GlennDog
GlennDog Posts: 3,120
edited September 2017 in For Sale (FS) Classifieds
I purchased these bad boys from Seas (Ed) 2.5 years ago. If you're interested in their history, here's the thread

http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/166212/fully-modded-sda-srs-2-3tl-for-sale-1300/p1

Reason for the sale, is that these Need Room To Breath !! and I Have No Room!
Bigger is Not always better!
My space is small, which was fine for the 2B studios, this size speaker is over-kill, for My space
Now I'm headed in another direction . . .

From the original Seas ad:
"Upgrades include....new RDO198 tweeters, all of the drivers have been dampened with dynamite, hurricane nuts on all drivers and tweeters, Black hole 5 applied behind the drivers and the magnets have been secured with locktite.

The crossovers were rebuilt with Sonic Caps in the high pass and Solens in the low pass. All resisters were replaced with Mills. The poly switches were removed and replaced with Mills resistors.

The crossovers have about 150 to 200 hours of burn in and are really starting to shine.

I would rate these as a solid 8 or 9. The only visible issue is some snags on the grill cloth that you can only see in very good lighting. The top caps are in great shape."

The 2.3s might have an addition 100 hours on them . . . They've been idle since I purchased my Salks

Prior to delivery, I paid Seas to upgrade the original speaker binding posts to Cardas CCRGs for the R, L and IC

Jesse (F1 Nut) custom made the MIT Shotgun AI-1 ICs that connect the 2.3s to the Dreadnaught

Also, Doug at Douglas Connection made the sweet jumpers

All in all, I have over $2500 invested in these. I would like to get around $1900.

I'll try getting pic up in the next few days. Any questions! Just ask!

Thanks for look'n

Edit: I'm in SW Michigan, north of Motown 48098
& AI-1 case fabricated by Brock (ToolFan)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,446
    That would be Larry not Brock (heiney9) i do believe
    Great deal wish i could be the new owner
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    Nice someone will be getting a deal nice Speakers.
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  • Thorton
    Thorton Posts: 1,324
    Now these become available close to me. Where were you 3 years ago. GLWTS.
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    edited September 2017
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    That would be Larry not Brock (heiney9) i do believe
    Great deal wish i could be the new owner

    My bad, sorry Lar! . . . AND that's SE Mich. northern Detroit burbs
    Yesterday was a long arse day!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,561
    Shocking that these are still here.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,244
    This^^^^ hell of a deal IMO!!!
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  • pkquat
    pkquat Posts: 748
    I'm interested. It will be at least 2 weeks until I could think about making the trip on a weekend.
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    In full disclosure, my new iPad Pro camera takes very detailed pictures ...
    here is the general condition of the 2.3 TL’s

    I would rate them cosmetically 7.8 - 8.2 out of 10, mainly because of the speaker cloth piling and age, of coarse

    Overall sound quality . . . high 8s and into the 9s!

    The dreadnought and MIT cables are not run-in, yet!

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    Mains Salk HT2-TL
    Rythmik F12
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  • TNTsTunes
    TNTsTunes Posts: 751
    If only you were closer to Wisconsin. You're too far away for this cripple to drive...
    "Make a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Light
    a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    I’ll be in northern Indiana next weekend, if that helps .... Shipshawana area
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    Hump-Day Bump!
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    F1nut wrote: »
    Shocking that these are still here.

    Me too . .

    This is a lot of speaker and SQ for the $$

    I dare say, not a better 2.3TL price to be found EVER with the speaker mods, MIT cables and 1KVA Dreadnaught
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  • nspindel
    nspindel Posts: 5,343
    Bit far to drive from Tampa, Florida, but an awesome deal! Good luck with the sale, someone should be jumping all over these!
    Good music, a good source, and good power can make SDA's sing. Tubes make them dance.
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  • TNTsTunes
    TNTsTunes Posts: 751
    GlennDog wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    Shocking that these are still here.

    Me too . .

    This is a lot of speaker and SQ for the $$

    I dare say, not a better 2.3TL price to be found EVER with the speaker mods, MIT cables and 1KVA Dreadnaught

    I totally agree. I currently have 2.3's, all new parts(including drivers) to fully mod them into 2.3TL's, they already have Larry's rings + more and a 1KVA Dreadnaught... I still want to buy them just because.... but about the only place I have for them is to make them garage speakers or put them in the closet as spares. I've had modded SDA 2A's as garage speakers for years already though and have some CRS+'s and modded M7 Series 2 in the closet already.

    If the drive wasn't so far and they would fit better in a KIA Soul I'd probably have made the trip for them. Surprisingly they will fit in my Soul but the front seats need to be almost all the way forward.

    Someone needs to snatch these up, they are keepers in my eyes.

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    a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

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  • pkquat
    pkquat Posts: 748
    I would have them now if they were closer. I am still interested and but it is a days drive each way, and I have not had a free weekend with work and other pre-made plans. It may still be a while. Don't let me hold anyone up.
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  • kwarren122
    kwarren122 Posts: 5
    Nice deal thats what Im looking for but Im down south darn it...GLWS
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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    Bumper cars!
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,065
    I just did some more work on my 2.3TL's an hour ago. Seeing this thread is giving me flashbacks. :p
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    Hard to believe these are still available, unless I missed something if nobody has claimed these yet Wow! I'm enjoying my 2.3tls this very moment, anybody considering these or have even thought about them make that move and with the Dreadnaught to boot just buy em already.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,065
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    Hard to believe these are still available, unless I missed something if nobody has claimed these yet Wow! I'm enjoying my 2.3tls this very moment, anybody considering these or have even thought about them make that move and with the Dreadnaught to boot just buy em already.

    Yeah, I could have purchased these and saved myself lots of time and money instead of doing mine myself. :p
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited October 2017
    la2vegas wrote: »
    Perhaps some pictures of these bad boy's might help.

    You must of missed them, the pictures already posted display these quite well.
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    edited October 2017
    la2vegas wrote: »
    My bad, just saw them.

    Beauts are they not? Someone should buy these.
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  • pkquat
    pkquat Posts: 748
    Hopefully making the road trip this weekend.
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  • monepolk
    monepolk Posts: 1,142
    Good remove the temptation.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited November 2017
    Let me say, for the items you are getting, you are stupid to not buy these. Good luck getting a 1000va "AI-1" transformer, let a lone one already made for you. The 2.3TL's with modified crossovers, RD0-198's, etc. for $1900.00 is extremely hard to beat. Someone should buy these, now.
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    Taken from a recent Audioholics reply regarding "Club Polk" and Polk speakers:
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    My response is: If you need 60 seconds to respond in one sentence, you probably should't be evaluating Polk speakers.....

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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    headroom wrote: »
    For $1900.00 it is extremely hard to beat. Someone should buy these, now.

    A Polkie from Minneapolis did!!

    Peter (nice guy) drove into metro Detroit on Saturday, did a 180 and split to go Straight Back Home! We had to shoehorn them into his Audi wagon. Tight fit, but doable
    Polk "dedication" does not even scratch the surface for a road trip like that . . .

    I'm glad they stayed in the CP family. This set of 2.3s have been all over the eastern 1/2 of the country

    Happy listening, Peter!
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  • monepolk
    monepolk Posts: 1,142
    Glad to hear.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    GlennDog wrote: »
    headroom wrote: »
    For $1900.00 it is extremely hard to beat. Someone should buy these, now.

    A Polkie from Minneapolis did!!

    Peter (nice guy) drove into metro Detroit on Saturday, did a 180 and split to go Straight Back Home! We had to shoehorn them into his Audi wagon. Tight fit, but doable
    Polk "dedication" does not even scratch the surface for a road trip like that . . .

    I'm glad they stayed in the CP family. This set of 2.3s have been all over the eastern 1/2 of the country

    Happy listening, Peter!

    I guess I should have scrolled down all the way before posting. I just now noticed the comment about making the road trip. Congratulations on the sale and to Peter for the purchase of some excellent gear!

    Also, who is this "headroom" character? :D
    Relayer-Big-O-Poster.jpg
    Taken from a recent Audioholics reply regarding "Club Polk" and Polk speakers:
    "I'm yet to hear a Polk speaker that merits more than a sentence and 60 seconds discussion." :\
    My response is: If you need 60 seconds to respond in one sentence, you probably should't be evaluating Polk speakers.....

    "Green leaves reveal the heart spoken Khatru"- Jon Anderson

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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    Congrats to both on the transaction I will be heading south through Minneapolis in a week audition perhaps? :#:#
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    2 Channel
    Adcom 555II Vincent SA-T1 Marantz SA 15S2 Denon DR-M11 Clearaudio Bluemotion SDA 2.3tl's (Z) edition MIT Terminator II Speaker Cables & IC's Adcom 545II Adcom Gtp-450 Marantz CD5004 Technics M245X SDA 2B's, SDA CRS+

    Stuff for the Head
    JD LABS C5 Headphone Amplifier, Sennheiser HD 598, Polk Audio Buckle, Polk Audio Hinge, Velodyne vPulse, Bose IE2, Sennheiser CX 200 Street II, Sennheiser MX 365

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  • GlennDog
    GlennDog Posts: 3,120
    edited November 2017
    gudnoyez wrote: »
    Congrats to both on the transaction I will be heading south through Minneapolis in a week audition perhaps? :#:#

    Thanks!

    Reach out to Pete/Peter "piquet" in Minni

    But, like I told him, the Dreadnaught is gonna need a couple hundred hours to fully run-her-in!
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