2.3TL, please help identifying

kn505
kn505 Posts: 380
edited August 2009 in Vintage Speakers
I am picking up a pair of 2.3TL tomorrow. How do I know if they are 2.3 or 2.3TL?

Here is the link to the speakers:

http://omaha.craigslist.org/ele/1298369722.html

Thanks.
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  • beemer
    beemer Posts: 155
    edited July 2009
    Possibly the serial ## may identify these as TL's.

    Unless the seller replaced all 6 tweeters, removal of a tweeter or two will show the model number and a date. tl's would have SL3000 tweeters. SL 3000 also has a felt ring around the periphery of the dome.

    There may be more ways to tell.....I'm sure other members will add to this.

    Best,

    Paul
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  • leroyjr1
    leroyjr1 Posts: 8,785
    edited July 2009
    Those are 2.3tl's. You can tell by the SL3000 tweeters. That's a great deal on some nice looking speakers.
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  • beemer
    beemer Posts: 155
    edited July 2009
    leroyjr1 wrote: »
    Those are 2.3tl's. You can tell by the SL3000 tweeters. That's a great deal on some nice looking speakers.

    Excellent! :D Looking at the ad, small pic, 53 year old eyes..... I couldn't tell which tweeter. :o

    Best,

    Paul
    Main system: Levinson Reference 32 Preamp/30.6 DAC/31.5 Transport/Sony SCD777ES/VPI Aries w/SDS JMW 10.5 arm/Van den Hul Frog/Levinson 33 Monoblocks/33H Monoblocks/Transparent reference XL interconnect & Speaker cable/Nearfield Acoustics Pipedream Reference 18 Line Array.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,751
    edited July 2009
    The fact that the stereo drivers are on the inside row and that those are SL3000 tweeters would indicate they are SDA SRS 2.3TL's. Very nice speakers, in fact many prefer them to the 1.2TL's.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited July 2009
    Nice price too....congrats
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited August 2009
    F1nut wrote: »
    Very nice speakers, in fact many prefer them to the 1.2TL's.

    How dare you!:p
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  • JohnLocke88
    JohnLocke88 Posts: 1,150
    edited August 2009
    Wow. Good price, and with the original boxes... That's crazy.
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  • kn505
    kn505 Posts: 380
    edited August 2009
    Thanks very much for everyone's helps. I wanted to reply earlier but there was some health problem with my father in law.
    I had an appointment with the seller to pick up the speakers on Saturday morning. Since the seller was only several minutes from my parents in law, my wife wanted to go along so we can go to visit her parents and to see how her father was doing because he had have shingle a week before. After picking up the speakers, we stopped by my parents in law and my father in law was greeting us at the door. He told us his shingle was much better, but his heartbeats seems abnormal (from 126 to 140). I verified his machine on me and the machine works fine. We then called my sister in law, a doctor, and she told us to take him to ER. After several hours in the ER and after the normal ER routines of blood tests, EKG, and X-rays, the ER decided to keep him over night so they can do more blood tests. They could not find any wrong with him so they released him on Sunday. They think that his abnormal heartbeats were due to the combination of the shingle and his other medications. Thanks God that he is OK.
    Back to the speakers, they are from the original owner and are in mint conditions. He even had the original brochure and all the screws (unused) for attaching the speakers to the wall. Since the owner is in the millitary and has been moving around every three to five years, he knows how to pack these speakers himself. He showed me to pack these speakers into the boxes and helped to load them into my van. It was a pleasure experience with a Polkaudio owner.
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