Srinath
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I also sold a nighthawk 650 that I managed to buy in 1995 for 3-400 with 1200 miles. Beautiful blue bike in mint condition.
I was riding it down 237 in Santa Clara CA when a side cover flew away.
Then a week later while riding it, I spotted that side cover - stopped on the left shoulder, walked back 1000 ft and picked it up - nearly intact with just a teeny bit of rash.
Sold it to a close friend, had 6-7k on it and he parked it for years - moved it to NJ from CA and back to CA. And sold it hardly ever riding it.
I also sold a GS500 I had owned for 10 yrs and 40K miles and with 48k miles I sold it in a moment of "brokenness". Had lindemann FE that I didn't even get to open and "discover" their secrets. But that FE handled like no other GS I have ridden (till I slapped a katana FE on them a couple yrs later).
I have also handed a lot of remorse to people I bought/traded stuff with, usually in the general arena of "I'll fix your busted amp if you'd pay me with that other busted amp" and I have fixed both ... or in some cases fixed theirs and parted mine out for more $$$.
To me $$$ regrets are minor. I don't consider selling something for $5 when it was worth $10 something to crow about. It has to be worth 10X atleast.
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Yea cool. I actually am probably going to put it on here or ebay in about a month when I can deliver with a bit more freedom too.
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I am in SC and I have a pair in birch with a few blemishes. But I'll happily sell it for 2g.
4 consecutive serial numbers - Some scratches, a little wear on 2 corners a missing badge etc.
I'll try to get pics if you are able to make the hop to SC. I actually don't mind a bit of a drive, but timing and $$$ etc etc have to be worked out. I don't want to deliver it without a full on commitment. Its like 2-3 days and a lot of pain and gas $$$
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4 hours ago, opusk2k9 said:
Or when they added the tweeter, they notched the top of the mid horn mount to not block the tweeter.
Doesn't look like its been cut, but who knows with such a poor picture.
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6 hours ago, Coytee said:
Anyone notice how the lower tweeter flange, overlaps the top of the midrange flange?
Not saying good or bad, just thought it was interesting. Kind of shows (to me) someone trying to stuff too much into a too small of space (bad original design?) or maybe someone tried to retrofit something into there?
Seems to me if you are starting with a clean slate, you don't have to cram like that??
Looks like it might block part of the exit path of the tweeter horn
Wouldn't that prevent a lot of the tweeters output from getting to the listener and get reflected and phase muddled ...
AKA -6db attenuator along with random phase corrector ??? Right, that's a cool feature then.
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I have quite a few, though I have got a few back and said ... meeeehhh I was naïve to think these were great.
But these 2-3 still hurt (maybe getting them back would help me realize that meeehhhhh feeling).
1. Harman kardon HK930 with broken knob shaft that I got for $5 - traded away that same day for a set of RTR series 3 model 4 which I sold a few days later for $100, the day I got a 3 pack of ESS heil's with 1 working woofer between them but all 3 amt's nice and intact for $20. However I never even listened to that HK930. I want that 930 back.
2. A Phillips speaker pair, no idea what model but these had 2 8" and a 2" soft dome mid and 1" soft dome tweeter. Man did it sound like heaven.
3. Yamaha NS25 and NS 344 sets. Didn't even get much $$$ for em.
4. Gave up a Realistic 2080 and got a RE - 2 electrostat's needing foam on the woofers. Yea I got killed on that one.
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An audiophile is someone who hears a girl singing in the bathroom and instead of putting his eyes to the keyhole, complains about the acoustics and soundstage of the bathroom.
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Looks awesome and good in a little back pack sized package, but hovering on water is basically 100 yr old technology.
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IMHO - Forte 2's are bass heavy and they sound a bit boomy.
Choruses would be almost the perfect speaker for tubes, or heck anything really, the most even keel speaker made by klipsch.
Price vs value etc etc you have to decide that. After getting the forte's you'd likely be looking for choruses.
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Would a JBL2360A horn work in place of a 402 ?
Besides mine have Eminence kappa 15's - so I need to pick it up from ~350hz or so. I think I have to go 3 way no way a 2 way would do.
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My Z9 also says that. It could be that one of the drivers is reversed because that's how your crossover needs it or a cap in the xo is reversed due to some design reason.
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Home made EV, and I don't hink there is any other kind older than the last 20 yrs.
I'll bet one of the 2 on the bottom is a coaxial with center mounted horn.
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I walked out of a well advertised estate sale with a $10 SX-1250, a $10 set of realistic mach 2's and a $10 thorens td 154 (I think) and to think I left a Akai Reel to reel there cos I didn't know what it was.
These same geniuses wanted absolutely 200 for the washer and 150 for the dryer. Firm. I waffled and said I'll come by after thinking about it and seeing if I can get a bigger car or a truck.
You'd be surprised.
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8 minutes ago, HiFi Heaven said:
Hmmm... I offered asking price C.O.D. - CA$H delivered 10 miles - 48 hours ago - no joy.
Just renewed my offer - we shall see...
They didn't take it ? Is that some type of scam then ? Tell them you'd pay pal them only and they have to ship it to you.
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I see what you're saying twisted - but well, I am slow to understand, and well, the original doesn't look any better really as published by EV.
Here is an old Audiokarma thread about it -
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/electrovoice-corner-spkrs.466672/
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And the t35 and M828 with 823 (I think) mid driver both with metal horns and big heavy compression driver encased in a fiberglass loud speaker style mid cabinet is pretty much what they had. Mine is missing that fiberglass part - and never had it. It was made to sit inside that top section straight up on the wood, and didn't have the rear port/phase tube for the mid horn. IMHO, a lot cleaner to look at, though sound ???? who knows.
And in the 50's they could care less about looks especially inside such a beauty of a cabinet, it had to sound great and do so with 2 watts of SE tube power. Which I am willing to bet, these did.
I am looking for a set of x8+x36's and a set of attenuators for a decent $$. But as all projects, its buried deep in my collection and deep in my set of priorities.
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Centurions are the simpler and better Georgians, and mine have rear woofer access with down firing 15".
Very very good speakers IMHO.
Also EV's in a lot of cases were "kits".
Like mine for example, it had a pair of x8 and x36's. The correct XO per spec from EV was a single x336 - aka - Khorn copy courtesy EV.
Its one of those run what you brung situations with EV's.
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These are EV Georgian's. I have the centurions. That are the same thing but have a down firing woofer instead and are 6" shorter than a K horn. Very good speaker that are not worth 15 bones CDN, though that converts to 35c in real $$$.
Very very good speaker with the added benefit of being "corner optional".
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You speaking English Thebes ??? Or Tamil ?
Either way, deer skin supposedly the best for record cleaning.
I can tell you - it sticks to a record and you can dangle it when its stuck, no problem with the record sliding off.
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I'm pretty impressed with MCM electronics. They seem to under promise and over deliver. Much like parts express in fact.
I wont knock the $32 woofer, and I'm impressed with my Dayton audio DC300 as well.
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I was gonna buy it, but I want something bigger. LOL.
Yikes ... I think I've seen cities smaller than this.
You wont sell me 1 K2 would you ?
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12 hours ago, Skillz4lif said:
Custom 18" passive subwoofer cabinet patterned after the JBL EON618S (Same dimensions, different styling). 1/2" Birch 7-ply plywood. 1400 Watts peak, 4 ohms. Crossover at 150 hz. 18" JBL Premium Transducer; the same one from the JBL EON618S. 2-Speakon, 2 - 1/4" plug jacks wired in parallel
1/2" plywood - I honestly think it will probably rattle and shake itself out, unless its got that 1/2" as veneer on top of a 3/4" MDF. Or its got a whole mattress stuffed inside it.
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I used to for a while off an on - it was different people at different points in my life. But I quit and moved and ended up losing touch.
Its great, nowadays I have too many married friends and colleagues and that serves as my female bouncing board.
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The audio system isn't set up, that room itself is a total mess with the whole boxes and furniture stacked to the ceiling, my stupid job is threatening to eat up Friday night, the warm weather beckons but I'm stuck inside working but I am home, warm surrounded by people I love, and a nice 90 cc (2 shots) of the cheap flavorless simple bourbon Kentucky Gentleman in this old 8 sided coffee cup that coffee and tea stain too bad and is hard to clean, so its a "whisky" cup now.
Life is good. Work still sucks. The booze is damn fine too.
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I dunno I got a kick out of this.