1.2TL on ebay

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har_navalta
har_navalta Posts: 957
edited September 2003 in Flea Market
No affiliation...let see how this one how high it will go...The highest so far have reached to $3,350.00.

http://cgi.msn.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3043714794&category=14993
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited August 2003
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    I can see Russ now....
    "Must control SDA urges. Must control SDA urges..."
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • Big Dan R
    Big Dan R Posts: 131
    edited August 2003
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    Yes it will be interesting to see what these sell for. Wow after a long ebay Polk SRS drought...they have been appearing......
    BDR :)
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited August 2003
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    They are big, beautiful, and real... (seinfeld) RUSSMAN, THEY ARE IN TEXAS!!!
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,985
    edited August 2003
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    Yeah, I'm very familiar with Tornado ridden Wichita Falls. About 3 hrs to the North east for me, right out Highway 287.

    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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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,124
    edited August 2003
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    I spent two months in lovely Witchita Falls courtesy of Uncle Sam at the beginning of my career. I've never seen fit to go back and visit for the sake of nostalgia.

    BDT
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited August 2003
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    I put a bid on it. Never know when you will get lucky...
    madmax
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,985
    edited August 2003
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    I think Tour had a bid, and is eyeing these....

    Communicate fellas, let's keep everyone's toes healthy...

    I for one, am OUT on this auction.

    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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  • har_navalta
    har_navalta Posts: 957
    edited August 2003
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    I am only interested to know how much this one will go. My Polk
    Museum is already full:D

    Har
    ~I won't let mine go 'till the end of the world~
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited August 2003
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    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    I think Tour had a bid...
    Yeppers. A watch bid for now....

    Max,
    Agree that we don't need to butt heads.
    More later,
    Tour...
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    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,699
    edited August 2003
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    Max,
    A cooking pan and a wireless electric shaver.....hmmmmmmmm
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited August 2003
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    Originally posted by Vr3MxStyler2k3
    Max,
    A cooking pan and a wireless electric shaver.....hmmmmmmmm

    MX,
    I buy almost everything on ebay or by some device which allows me a savings. You can laugh at the shaver and the pan but I saved almost $70 on the two over normal cheap "on sale" store prices. Keep this in mind, I will easily be able to outbid you by $70 on my next purchase because of it. Will you be able to match me ???

    Heh,heh... My fellow employees wonder how the hell I can afford what I do...

    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,699
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    No No, see I dont have to buy it.....so I will be able to outbid you by what you paid ;)! Nah man! I owe my Dad money right now.....Dang Polk Audio putting me in debt!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
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    To go a step further, if tour has a bid on it it's WAY below the reserve. As a matter of fact if tour is planning on actually buying it he is more than welcome to but at this point it is more than twice the listed bid price to meet the reserve. I gave up a long time ago when it comes to a friend bidding on something that I want. Many items have gone for far less than I would have spent. It goes something like this: I want to win that $3000 item, but you only bidded $200, yea but if that unknown person hadn't bid $2000 then I would have got it, ...yea, but I was willing to pay $2400... and on and on... Before figureing this out I used to let it go but my "friends" never actually wins anything and always says afterward "If you really wanted it then you should have bidded a reasonable amount. Can anyone argue this point???? Even further, I don't really need another pair of 1.2's and figure even further that it will go for at least twice what I bid anyway, so what is the problem??
    madmax

    EDIT: I re-read my post and it doesn't even sound like what I meant. I don't even want these things anyway and even if I did probably russman might end up with them for a year until I could go get them. I'm out of this sale...
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
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    No problem here. Did not mean to imply there was one. All I did at this point is place a low proxy bid to watch them.

    As with you I don't need them, but that has not stopped me before...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
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    The last time I HAD to have a pair of SDA's I got them. The next month I saw a pair go for about half. :D:D:D
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited August 2003
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    $1800 (reserve met) now .... and interest waning... :(
    More later,
    Tour...
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    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited August 2003
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    Still at $1800. I'll predict $2625. Actually $2475 was my gut feeling but I'll still go with $2625.
    0madmax
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    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,640
    edited August 2003
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    Hey Madmax are you John Edwards? What is going to happen to me next week? hehe
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,699
    edited August 2003
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    Looks like the current high bidder is going to power them mofos with these babies!

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3043088638&category=39783

    Oh heck yeah! This dude knows his stuff!!! LOL!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
    edited August 2003
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    I hope this guy is aware of the "common ground amp" requirements of the 1.2TLs.;)
    Proud and loyal citizen of the Digital Domain and Solid State Country!
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited September 2003
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    Those adcoms should be fine with them if they are a true mono design, not a bridged two channel.
    madmax

    Edit: Actually this is pretty funny. We have talked so much about our own sytems that we are now picking out auctions and debating on whether their systems will work :D
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,699
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    Well he picked the monos off for 800, he is locked and loaded! I hope he isn't broke after that one!! LOL!

    If a GFA-555 can run with the 1.2, I am sure their Mono can to...right? or are they different designs?
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
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    Most mono amps can be used because their ground terminal potential is the same as the neutal line (in the middle between the + and - supply. When you bridge an amp normally the ground terminal potential is somewhere around 70 volts with respect to the neutral line. If the supplies were very well controled and within a few mv of each other then no problems would occur but if the two voltages shift around at all then a lot of current is pulled out of the amp causing damage. On a mono set with the ground terminal voltage the same as the neutral line the voltage tends to stay very close to zero. You can still have some problems if one channel craps out the right (or wrong) way. You can end up with one amp taking out the other. Overall it is fairly safe with the correct type of amp, it is just that now you have to consider the two amps as one. (if one channel goes then it can take out the other channel with the SDA's).
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • twochannel
    twochannel Posts: 170
    edited September 2003
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    I have SDA-SRS's,1987 vintage, and Adcom 565 mono blocks. Adcom tech. dept. made very clear that the amps must be on the same circuit, and that a jumper of the same wire size as the speaker wire be attached between the two amps negative terminals, making them common grounded. I did have one amp fail and it did not take out the other. The amps have since worked flawlessly for almost 10 years. This was the only solution before the A-1 interface cable became available.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited September 2003
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    The AI-1 interface is the best insurance. They should have put the xformer in every SDA ever made just to be sure! There are those few who will be screwed if they use the wrong amp. I used a pair of silver9t monoblocks for a while with no problem. One of the older members used Haffler units, each one bridged, which suffered the problem and blew out both amps. I think it is the few but when you are one of the few it becomes very important to you! Didn't this set of speakers include the AI-1 interface anyway?
    madmax
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  • DarqueKnight
    DarqueKnight Posts: 6,765
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    Yep, these speakers come with the AI-1 interface included.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,640
    edited September 2003
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    Man I need a AI-1 interconnect in a bad bad way.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited September 2003
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    It is easy enough to make one. You just have to get the part number for the xformer. I'm sure someone here has that. Do you know how to solder?
    madmax
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,640
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    Yea, I have the directions....just have so much going on. I am able to solder...hehe
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • har_navalta
    har_navalta Posts: 957
    edited September 2003
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    Yeah, to make one is easy as long as you know how to solder
    and also you should know a good quality of materials to use
    and put them together to make it look original.

    BTW, Mark I am still shopping for pin. I will go around to look for the same RCA plug that I used to strip to assemble. The RCA pin that I used ran out so now I have to look for the same kind so that I can finish it. Also I just ordered the Isolation from Newark today.

    Har
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