Tell me what these are

gadgetdad
gadgetdad Posts: 34
edited March 2010 in 2 Channel Audio
Ran across these on craigslist. Anyone have any idea what they are?
Thanks for any input..

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TOY INVENTORY
TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
PureAV PF60 (POWER)
polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited March 2010
    Some kind of Infinity, I imagine.

    check
    http://www.infinity-classics.de/infinity/index.htm
    and/or
    http://www.bobbyshred.com/infinity.html

    (the late "Bobbyshred" gets extra points for his Crack the Sky page!)
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  • gadgetdad
    gadgetdad Posts: 34
    edited March 2010
    Were warming up. I want to call and ask but...... If he doesn't know enough to list then???? I'm a little lost, where are the tweeters.
    TOY INVENTORY
    TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
    ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
    Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
    PureAV PF60 (POWER)
    polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
    polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
    polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
    polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
    polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
    DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • gadgetdad
    gadgetdad Posts: 34
    edited March 2010
    Hey, found them.... Infinity RS-II
    THANKS
    TOY INVENTORY
    TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
    ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
    Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
    PureAV PF60 (POWER)
    polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
    polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
    polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
    polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
    polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
    DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • gadgetdad
    gadgetdad Posts: 34
    edited March 2010
    Here is the link if interested. I havent talked to him. I could never afford enough power to push them.http://tricities.craigslist.org/ele/1658273145.html
    TOY INVENTORY
    TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
    ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
    Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
    PureAV PF60 (POWER)
    polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
    polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
    polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
    polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
    polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
    DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2010
    They are RSII's, 1981-1983, $1450/pair, dual 10 inch acoustic suspension woofers, three 5 1/4 inch midbass, and a single Emit ribbon tweeter.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • Conradicles
    Conradicles Posts: 6,081
    edited March 2010
    $200 seems like a good deal!
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  • gadgetdad
    gadgetdad Posts: 34
    edited March 2010
    I know, I found a set listed for $1200. He doesn't list condition. For $200 they could at least be a profitable project for someone!!!!!!!!!
    TOY INVENTORY
    TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
    ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
    Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
    PureAV PF60 (POWER)
    polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
    polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
    polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
    polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
    polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
    DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • gadgetdad
    gadgetdad Posts: 34
    edited March 2010
    I would love to flip them. But...... I have a problem keeping things.
    TOY INVENTORY
    TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
    ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
    Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
    PureAV PF60 (POWER)
    polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
    polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
    polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
    polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
    polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
    DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited March 2010
    My Dad use to have a pair of those. Years ago but I do remember them sounding very nice. I think if the condition is decent those would be a steal at $200.
    --Gary--
    Onkyo Integra M504, Bottlehead Foreplay III, Denon SACD, Thiel CS2.3, NHT VT-2, VT-3 and Evolution T6, Infinity RSIIIa, SDA1C and a few dozen other speakers around the house I change in and out.
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited March 2010
    I have heard them in the past and they do sound good!!! I am actually a big fan of the emit tweeter. I sitll run a pair of RS6b at work.
    Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited March 2010
    A heads up, replacement tweeters are hard to come by and some vintage Infinities will need a refoam by now.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited March 2010
    Man you could get a lot of speaker for the money back in the day.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, and a nice new car cost $10k (or less) then, too...

    The big Infinities were pretty decent loudspeakers; the "monkey coffin" Infinity speakers that mere mortals could afford were, to my taste, rather shrill-sounding.

    Never heard the RS-IIs but imagine they're OK or better than OK. The tweeters are a bit fragile; refoaming is not a big deal (although proper-sized surrounds need to be sourced for the drivers).
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  • gadgetdad
    gadgetdad Posts: 34
    edited March 2010
    OK, I thought the thread would last about 15 minutes. I fought as hard as I could. I called and he said that he had them in his home stereo. He doesn't know anything other than that they are speakers. He said he recently upgraded to surround sound. A guy is supposed to be there in 15 min. If he passes he will give me a call.
    TOY INVENTORY
    TOSHIBA 65HM167 (DLP)
    ONKYO TX-SR603X (AVR)
    Logitech Harmony 880 (REMOTE)
    PureAV PF60 (POWER)
    polkaudio CS400i (CENTER)
    polkaudio RT1000i (MAINS)
    polkaudio FX300i (SURROUNDS)
    polkaudio RT25i (REARS)
    polkaudio PSW350 (SUB)
    DefTech SuperCube I (SUB)
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,730
    edited March 2010
    That's a blast from the past ..... Russman mentioned the single EMIT tweeter and my neurons took a left turn and I started thinking, "Infinitiy had EMT tweeters (Heil) ?". :o

    A link for an old PDF brochure that talks about the EMIT tweeter;

    http://www.davidsaudio.com/Infinity_EMIT.pdf
    Sal Palooza
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited March 2010
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    That's a blast from the past ..... Russman mentioned the single EMIT tweeter and my neurons took a left turn and I started thinking, "Infinitiy had EMT tweeters (Heil) ?". :o
    http://www.davidsaudio.com/Infinity_EMIT.pdf


    Heil = "AMT" (air motion transformer). Nice tweeters.

    The EMIT is a planar tweeter. Here's a lowish-end EMIT as found in a pair of RSb speakers (dump finds) taking up space in the basement. Need to refoam these someday...

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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited March 2010
    There are still a lot of fans of those old Infinitys. Get them if you can, and most likely they will need to be refoamed.
    Jake
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