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Mic Stiffy

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Dudes, I just scored 2 black RF-7s and a black RC-7 for 1,000.00. I'm about to have a Klipsch orgasm. Yep, there it goes. There are some dings but I can repair them and it's def a net gain. I just wanted to share my happiness with the rest of my klipsch hommies.

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Dudes, I just scored 2 black RF-7s and a black RC-7 for 1,000.00. I'm about to have a Klipsch orgasm. Yep, there is goes. There are some dings but I can repair them and it's def a net gain. I just wanted to share my happiness with the rest of my klipsch hommies.

Mic Stiffy,

Nice score, but I think score of the century goes to J.C., for buying a pair od Klipsch KPT-MCM-4-T Grand speakers that were demos for under $3,000 at a buiseness liquidation auction. I think my own score of 9 TSCM Bass cabinets wuith 2 TSCM high frequency cabinets for arround $1000 rates as second place due to condition and missing high frequency cabinets, but that is only my opinion.

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Sorry Mike, but the guy who scored the cinema speakers has got him beat. Dollars vs dollars saved: klipschorn 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 = $6,000.00 (doubt they were worth that much) vs 12,000.00 - $1,000.00 = 11,000.00 profited.

Not even close my friend

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Well, these sound like good deals so I will tell you mine. I stopped at a roadside flea market kind of stand and saw a pair of Klipsch Forte sitting in the sun when the guy comes up to me and says she's wanting 40.00 for them but I'll let you take em for 30. I asked for his pocket knife and gently removed the grills and looked at perfect condition drivers in both units. They are the oak finish and had water damage on the top of one of them. Needless to say I now own them and am happy to have to do some woodworking on them to bring them up to standard.

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If you take pi over the square root of the price times the hours of listening enjoyment divided by days owned adjusted for leap years minus the present value of the gas money to Delaware plus the WAF factor (which is very high in my case since I paid nothing), I am confident that I am still in the lead.

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Dudes, I just scored 2 black RF-7s and a black RC-7 for 1,000.00. I'm about to have a Klipsch orgasm. Yep, there it goes. There are some dings but I can repair them and it's def a net gain. I just wanted to share my happiness with the rest of my klipsch hommies.

Looks like a different forum member picked up the same items you did for $600. I watch craigslist every day around here and haven't found deals like that....yet!

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If you take the pi over the square root of the price times the hours of listening enjoyment divided by days owned adjusted for leap years minus the present value of the gas money to Delaware plus the WAF factor (which is very high in my case since I paid nothing), I am confident that I am still in the lead.

Gary,

Glad you enjoy your K-Horns!!

I still prefer my TSCMs over my K-Horns hands down and after listening with Kevin Harmon on a regular basis down here to his two pairs of K-Horns, pair of TSCMs, pair of MCM 1900 stacks, pair of Jubilees, and his pair of K-600 stacks, I can say with confidence that I am happy to be selling my Oiled Oak K-Horns to be buying a set of K-600s of my own..... Further, I would have to state that after listening to the K-402 on the Jubilees, I can only imagine what it must sound like on the MWM bass bin with the other pieces that JC got with his score, those only need a pair of K-684s to probably be the hands down best that has come from Klipsch.... JMHO

Roger

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Mic Stiffy,

Nice score, but I think score of the century goes to J.C., for buying a pair od Klipsch KPT-MCM-4-T Grand speakers that were demos for under $3,000 at a buiseness liquidation auction. I think my own score of 9 TSCM Bass cabinets wuith 2 TSCM high frequency cabinets for arround $1000 rates as second place due to condition and missing high frequency cabinets, but that is only my opinion.

Roger

I think I have got that beat, not in the quantity department, but the quality deparment. Late last year I got a mint (never been used, still on pallet, still in wrapping) pair of TSCM's for well below $1,000 out of a small town movie theater here in Texas. It is the only thing I have scored on in that department, just sheer dumb luck.

I have never lucked out on Craig's list ("oh those just sold, I will let you know if he backs out but he is bringing me $500 cash for these mint Khorns that were my dads, but the jokes on him, I would I have given him $500 to get these big ugly things out of here. Tell you what, give me your number and if he no shows I will sell them to you for $450" or similar variation, just adjust the price based on the product)

It is tough to beat a free pair of Khorns, and they were not a beater pair of Khorns, those were, and still are, a set of mint horns. I am way more impressed with Gary's lp finds for a buck then his free near mint khorns. I bet he has found 10x the value of those khorns in near mint valuable vinyl for buck. The thrift stores we have here in Austin are all picked over, stuff pulled for acution, etc. I have never found anything worth a darn. I have gone to self storage auctions, where they sell the contents because of non-payment of rent, and no luck on anything. Sure heard a lot of great stories. "You should have been here last month, who storage shed full of lp's, stored correctly, blah blah blah." I never seem to find that stuff. By the time I was factoring in the time to try and track it down, the time being wasted, it was cheeper to just buy it at the record convention here in Austin. The hunt, while fun for awhile, kind of got old when you just are not finding anything worth a darn. I think with ebay there is just so much more demand for these types of things. It has just created such a hugh market for this stuff. I mean before if you had a 1970's Mac amp you had no idea what it was worth, where to get rid of it, etc. Now any 16 year old kid can tell you what it is worth instantly, or a 1A/1A Six Eye mono KOB is worth. As a consequence this stuff is not being sold in garage sales or making it to thrift stores like it used to.

Travis

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