SDA SRS 2.3 TLs + carver TFM-35 amp for sale

waxman

Speakers SOLD To Neskahi, amp no longer available


Hello forum folks, I’m selling my mint Polk SDA SRS 2.3 TL’s and the accompanying Carver TFM-35 amp that’s powering them.

http://home.austin.rr.com/cwr/polks/

Some of you may remember that I listed these in 2004 because of a divorce, but ultimately was able to keep them, but now it’s October 2007 and I’d like to change things up a bit in my media room (on my terms .

Speakers for $1400 or package deal with the amp for $1600.

Priority goes to cash, but I'd entertain trade offers for LSI or RTI 10/12 series speakers- I'm looking to go tower for mains, in-wall for surrounds, and want the timber to be matched all the way around.

I want to find a local buyer in/around Austin, Texas- crating and shipping these is just too much effort. I can drive an hour or so towards Houston/Dallas/San Antonio with them in the pickup but then it will be impossible for me to demo the speakers so I strongly suggest you come to my house in Austin.

History:

I bought the 2.3 TL’s in 2002 from the original owner here in Austin who bought them on January 30th of 1990 for $2155.00. (Original receipt will be included with all the reference materials). They had been powered by a Proton amp their entire life which I replaced with the higher powered carver courtesy of a trade with Wardsweb from the polk forum group. The amp is putting something north of 300 watts into each speaker, which are rated to a max of 750 WPC. If you want to monoblock my TFM35 for one speaker and get another for the other, you’d be close to driving these with the 750 apiece max wattage.


The prior 2.3 TL owner was/is extremely anal and the speakers are in great shape. He only sold the speakers to me because he bought an RV and sold his house and didn’t have room in his land-yacht. The only blemishes on the speakers are on the bottom of the walnut coverings on the bottom surface of the speakers- they got there because of the dolly being used to move them, and the blemishes are very small but in the interest of full disclosure I’ve tried to take a picture of them. It’s also dusty underneath too so that’s some of what you see in some of the pics. I’ve also got two cats (de-clawed!) so there are a few stray cat hairs in the grille fabric. Other than that, I believe the speakers are in excellent shape. No known speaker issues to my ears. I think the former owner replaced one SL3000 tweeter with an original SL3000 from Polk very early in the speaker’s life. Interconnect cable is the original.



References:

Besides wardsweb my references on the polk forum are durokusai (Mark) and TheGrayGhost whom I’ve done business with. On ebay my alias is Waxman, feedback of 170-something at 99% positive.



Reference Materials Included:

I’ve got 6 accompanying Polk Audio documents- the 17 page instruction manual, the 12 page SDA speaker placement guidelines, a catalog discussing Matthew Polk’s dedication to quality (21 pages) that covers the product lines of that time, Technical Information Issue 1 November 1998 from Matt Polk and the Design/Engineering team for the SDA SRS 2.3s (3 pages), a doc called Polks SDA Speakers- Designed in Stereo written by Matthew Polk for Audio in June of 1984 which is 9 pages of trigonometry and differential equations used to calculate the SDA effect, and lastly a doc called ‘the polk speaker’ SL 3000 dome tweeter, Issue 2 September of 1989 which is 4 pages of technical info on the SL3000.

I’ve got 4 magazine reviews/ads from the times, a Nov 1989 Stereo Review 4 page add of the SDA SRS’s, a special test report for Stereo Review November 1985 for the Polk SDA-SRS(4 pages), A review of the 2.3 speaker system in Stereo Review November 1988 (6 pages), and finally a 6 page review from High Performance Review in December of 1988 on the SDA SRS 2.3 system that looks like it may have been distributed by Polk with the actual speakers. Did I tell you the prior owner was anal?

I’ve got the Carver TFM-35 service manual as well- it’s 16 pages not counting the many blueprints/electrical traces.

Pics are mixed, with some in my setup from 2004 and some from today.

http://home.austin.rr.com/cwr/polks/ for pics

Neskahi

Waxman, PM sent. I'll take the 2.3TL's

snow

I might be interested in the tfm-35 if it didnt sell with the 2.3s. pm sent about it

REGARDS SNOW

waxman

I'm pretty sure Neskahi doesn't want the amp. I was hoping to sell them as a package, so that's why I priced it as a $200 adder. It won't be $200 listed seperately.

Actually, we don't have an agreement on the speakers yet either because I'd need to drive 4 hours to meet him, which is outside of my preferred range (see original post). In all fairness he's got first dibs, and we're trying to find a spot that will work for us both. Just didn't want everyone to think that they are already sold. If you are interested, definitely send me a PM in case Neskahi and I aren't able to work out an arrangement.

thanks
Chris

snow

waxman wrote: »

I'm pretty sure Neskahi doesn't want the amp. I was hoping to sell them as a package, so that's why I priced it as a $200 adder. It won't be $200 listed seperately.

thanks
Chris

Ye I kinda figured that it wouldndt be 200.00 seperately

PM sent.

REGARDS SNOW

Neskahi

Update. Waxman and I are meeting on Saturday in Texas to make the
transaction.

waxman

Neskahi is right, consider the speakers gone now. I do still have the amp available- anyone local, send me a PM and we can find a price that will work.
Snow- I'm worried what shipping to Alaska will do to an amp, regardless of how I box it so I'd like to see if there is local interest.

waxman

Jim (Neskahi) and I met on Saturday and the speakers are now in his excellent care. It was a perfect transaction- thanks Jim!

avguytx

So what is the price on the amp?

waxman

For now, I've decided to hold on to the amp for my new setup. I want to get a pair of LSI's, and I'm not sure my elite vsx 41 can safely drive 4 ohm speakers like the LSI15s, so until I replace my receiver I'm going to hold onto the carver. Should be short term, will send you a PM when I get everything reset.

Neskahi

And thank you Chris. Glad you made the Texas game before kick off. You were cutting it close. Me and the wife watched the last half. Of course this was after we carted the Polk's upstairs for our enjoyment that evening. Thanks again.