2.3TLs' are home and -----

maandjojo
maandjojo Posts: 293
edited August 2009 in Vintage Speakers
better than I could have ever imagined.
First the road trip, from near Allentown,Pa. to near Akron,Oh. 407 miles by gps. My son and I left home at 3 AM. got some coffee and pulled into the sellers' driveway at 9:15 AM. No traffic at all and nothing but mountains and trees. Loaded them onto pickup on foam and on there bellies. It rained off and on all the way there but stopped in time to load. Left there at 9:45 AM and made it home at 4:20 PM. Some traffic and stopped for some grub. In between we had a ball, lots of laughs, spent some good alone time with the kid, well he is 37 but still my kid.
We unloaded, took a few minutes to set up and then audition them. From the first tone you could hear a big difference between the srs 2s' and these. Much fuller and deep bass. All the sdas' have a great sharp bass but these added some deep richness. Also the mids are much, much better. They are a bit big for the room but that will do until we move, where they will have more room to breath. One thing I didn't notice was the sda effect being that much better. The srs2s' did a nice job there.
The seller was a good guy, he is divorced and had to meet him at his house that was just sold and he was selling most of his audio equipment. Everythng was broken down so I couldn't audition them but I'm not to bad with judging someones character.
Thanks again to all of you for your well wishes and I feel I am where I want to be.

Joe
Joe
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited August 2009
    Congrats on the new toys!

    Sounds like a smooth, enjoyable SDA Roadtrip.:)
    The nirvana inducer-
    APC H10 Power Conditioner
    Marantz UD5005 universal player
    Parasound Halo P5 preamp
    Parasound HCA-1200II power amp
    PolkAudio LSi9's/PolkAudio SDA 2A's/PolkAudio Monitor 7A's
    Audioquest Speaker Cables and IC's
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited August 2009
    I did the same thing with my son picking up my 1.2TLs. It was great.

    Congrats.
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  • nikolas812
    nikolas812 Posts: 2,915
    edited August 2009
    Congrats!


    Lets see some pics.



    Nik
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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited August 2009
    Congratulations Joe,, sounds like you're gonna' enjoy them for years to come.Have fun and n'joy :)
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • stubby
    stubby Posts: 723
    edited August 2009
    Congrats on the new speakers. Nothing like a roadtrip to bond with a familiy member. Or, to remember why you're glad they moved out. JK!!!
    Believe me, I know the feeling of driving all hours to get a pair of SDA's. I drove from KC, Kansas to Cinci, OH to get mine. It was worth it.
    Happy listening.

    stubby
    SRS 3.1TL
    Harman Kardon Citation 5.1
    Anthem AVM2



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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited August 2009
    When I picked up my 1C's a couple of weeks ago my son and I did a 600 mile round road trip. It's cool that several others have had this experience too. Congrats on the successful purchase and trip.
    SDA-1C (full mods)
    Carver TFM-55
    NAD 1130 Pre-amp
    Rega Planar 3 TT/Shelter 501 MkII
    The Clamp
    Revox A77 Mk IV Dolby reel to reel
    Thorens TD160/Mission 774 arm/Stanton 881S Shibata
    Nakamichi CR7 Cassette Deck
    Rotel RCD-855 with modified tube output stage
    Cambridge Audio DACmagic Plus
    ADC Soundshaper 3 EQ
    Ben's IC's
    Nitty Gritty 1.5FI RCM
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  • Hamatym
    Hamatym Posts: 269
    edited August 2009
    I did an 8 hour road trip with my pops, and it was a lot of fun! good bonding time for sure
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