Vintage Mini Monitors $125

elitt
elitt Posts: 162
edited March 2018 in For Sale (FS) Classifieds
These are fairly clean and perform fairly well. The drivers appear to be from Bose 901's, the proper equivalent to the originals as researched on the vintage forum.

Everything else presents as original and I don't think they were ever tampered with.

$125 pick up in Flatiron neighborhood in NYC. The peerless alone are probably worth it. I'd like this pair to end up with someone who will recap/enjoy/etc. but if you buy to flip so be it.

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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    I would think a closer replacement would be from a 9 or 9a, but those are hen's teeth. I wonder if doping them would get them closer to spec.

    Sry, I don't mean to derail the FS thread, GLWS.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,654
    Those look like the original driver and PR.
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    The PR is correct, but all versions that I've seen have doped cones on the driver as well. Also the frame and gasket are different than what I've seen.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,654
    True, those drivers are not doped, but otherwise appear identical. Wonder if they were using up drivers from the Model 9 in this one?
    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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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    FestYboy wrote: »
    I would think a closer replacement would be from a 9 or 9a, but those are hen's teeth. I wonder if doping them would get them closer to spec.

    Sry, I don't mean to derail the FS thread, GLWS.

    $1.25? :smile:
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  • elitt
    elitt Posts: 162
    verb wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    I would think a closer replacement would be from a 9 or 9a, but those are hen's teeth. I wonder if doping them would get them closer to spec.

    Sry, I don't mean to derail the FS thread, GLWS.

    $1.25? :smile:

    Well, if the drivers are original...8mb90j6q82va.jpg
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    edited March 2018
    elitt wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    I would think a closer replacement would be from a 9 or 9a, but those are hen's teeth. I wonder if doping them would get them closer to spec.

    Sry, I don't mean to derail the FS thread, GLWS.

    $1.25? :smile:

    Well, if the drivers are original...8mb90j6q82va.jpg

    Have to consult @FestYboy , as he is our own CP certified appraiser! :smile:

    Edited to add: Welcome to CP @elitt !
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    F1nut wrote: »
    Wonder if they were using up drivers from the Model 9 in this one?

    All M9 drivers I've seen have had their surrounds coated in a clear silicone like substance. Not discounting the possibility though.

    Then again, mine seem to be the only ones with an alternate configuration... Odd.
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  • elitt
    elitt Posts: 162
    verb wrote: »
    elitt wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    I would think a closer replacement would be from a 9 or 9a, but those are hen's teeth. I wonder if doping them would get them closer to spec.

    Sry, I don't mean to derail the FS thread, GLWS.

    $1.25? :smile:


    Have to consult @FestYboy , as he is our own CP certified appraiser! :smile:

    Edited to add: Welcome to CP @elitt !

    been here for years, selling post 100 points. should I just give these away to someone who will enjoy them?
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    You know I would!! :smiley:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    no interest in shipping them?
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    I vote Doc gets them! All in favor?
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  • elitt
    elitt Posts: 162
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    no interest in shipping them?

    I could. Not sure I trust myself. I'll hope for pickup and stay in touch.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    I am interested, but I certainly understand your reticence to pack & ship if you're uncomfortable with so doing.

    NYC's not that far away geographically -- but psychologically/philosophically it's a great gulf indeed for me ;)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    FWIW, and it's not a great scan, but this is what the original morph of the Mini-Monitor looked like:

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    Not the arrangement of the drivers & the trapezoidal box. It does look like the "midwoofer" cone was indeed coated. I really don't remember any more :p

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    Second in line if shipping becomes an option.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Hey! They look like mine! Doc do you have a year for that ad?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Hey! They look like mine! Doc do you have a year for that ad?
    ]

    yeah, hold on a minute...

    that ad scan is from Audio magazine, Sept. 1977

    http://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/180156/a-project-for-2018-compendium-of-polk-audio-ads-etc/p1


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    @Nightfall, if the OP'll ship 'em, take 'em!
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Hot damn! I love having info like that. Thanks Doc.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited March 2018
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    @Nightfall, if the OP'll ship 'em, take 'em!

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    EDIT: I thought I read "If the OP'll ship 'em, I'll take 'em!" Did you miss a word on accident or did you change your mind?
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • Malbec
    Malbec Posts: 554
    elitt, you could pull a driver and check the back for a label or markings.
    That might satisfy everyone's curiosity. I don't think they're original.

    Here ya go.
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Wow the passives in that picture are different too! Curiouser and curiouser..
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Malbec wrote: »
    elitt, you could pull a driver and check the back for a label or markings.
    That might satisfy everyone's curiosity. I don't think they're original.

    Here ya go.
    ixgb0pido78y.jpeg

    Nice pic! @mhardy6647 looks like an addition to your compendium thread!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    Nightfall wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    @Nightfall, if the OP'll ship 'em, take 'em!

    FlawlessGeneralDiplodocus-size_restricted.gif


    EDIT: I thought I read "If the OP'll ship 'em, I'll take 'em!" Did you miss a word on accident or did you change your mind?

    No -- I meant you take 'em :)
    I have enough stuff for the moment, you know?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    Malbec wrote: »
    elitt, you could pull a driver and check the back for a label or markings.
    That might satisfy everyone's curiosity. I don't think they're original.

    Here ya go.
    ixgb0pido78y.jpeg

    Thank you for posting that! I remember that brochure -- I think I even had a copy way back when... but I know I don't now!

    Do you happen to have a good quality scan of the brochure that is stylistically similar to that one, but has the 5, 7 and 10 on it? It'd be very cool to get a copy of that!


    Sorry for the thread hijack.

    :(

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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Wow the passives in that picture are different too! Curiouser and curiouser..

    There's two different vintage Mini Monitors. The OPs are newer than the B&W pictured ones by a bit I believe.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,909
    yes, that is my recollection/belief (FWIW).
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  • FestYboy
    FestYboy Posts: 3,861
    Nightfall wrote: »
    FestYboy wrote: »
    Wow the passives in that picture are different too! Curiouser and curiouser..

    There's two different vintage Mini Monitors. The OPs are newer than the B&W pictured ones by a bit I believe.

    So I'll assume I have a series II version of the Auto variant??
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  • Malbec
    Malbec Posts: 554
    Sorry Doc,
    Sadly, this is the only Polk Brochure to survive the great purge of '92.
    I had boxes of brochures and catalogs that went to the landfill.

    Art,
    Polk had an over excursion problem with the original PR's. When driven past their threshold, they would make a loud popping sound and be ruined. I had the PR's in mine replaced and shortly thereafter polk went with the weighted PR that yours have.

    Backside of brochure
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