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Poll on Retail price of Your Speakers


What is the price of your 2 best speakers. If less than 5 years old, use retail price. If over 5 years old, use market price.  

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12 minutes ago, bodiebill said:

I have been living with my Spendor SP100's for many years now, and although I am an active tweaker, I never felled the urge to replace them.

 

I can understand why; I had a pair of SP9/1s for some time but was forced to sell them due to a move abroad.

"Science draws the wave, poetry fills it with water" Teixeira de Pascoaes

 

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My Thiel 3.7's are 11 years old.  Hard to believe so much time has passed.  As far as I can tell the surrounds are still fine, but I wonder how long they'll last.

HQPlayer (on 3.8 GHz 8-core i7 iMac 2020) > NAA (on 2012 Mac Mini i7) > RME ADI-2 v2 > Benchmark AHB-2 > Thiel 3.7

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I marked 500-1000, hopefully my Infinity Reference Standard Kappa 7 floor standing speakers still have a market price of at least $500.  The retail price was $1,400 for the pair, however I purchased them locally at The Good Guys at a 50% clearance discount in 1992 for $700 the pair. Needless to say I love these speakers.

 

P.S. I only have 2 speakers.

I have dementia. I save all my posts in a text file I call Forums.  I do a search in that file to find out what I said or did in the past.

 

I still love music.

 

Teresa

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I use a pair of Harbeth Super HL5plus which I bought about a year ago.

I had a pair of Quad ESL 989's for about 20 years before the Harbeths and a pair of Spendor SP1/2's before that. I only buy something when there is an obvious improvement on what I already have and I am completely satisfied with it.

I never really felt the need to constantly tinker with my system.

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Having never listened to a VMPS speaker, when I saw these RM-40's for sale I did a bit of research and my findings told me to jump on 'em so I did. 

 

It was a gamble but quite a musical speaker I must say.

Blue VMPS RM-40 Speakers.jpg

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On 08/05/2018 at 1:23 PM, Ralf11 said:

I'm driving mine with a $1,000 amp - maybe they can sound better with another amp (which is the next upgrade...)

Last time I checked, hi end amps start around $10,000. Anything below is mid fi.

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2 hours ago, Rexp said:

Last time I checked, hi end amps start around $10,000. Anything below is mid fi.

 

Wow! :rolleyes:

 

I know high end keeps going up, but there are still many great amps priced between $1,000 and $10,000 retail, none of which I would consider mid-fi. And many excellent amps below $1,000 including tubed ones, many of these might be considered mid-fi. Wouldn't anything above $10,000 be ultra high end?

 

$1,000 is the maximum I pay for any component, I prefer to pay $500 or less so I look for clearance, sale or demo units.

I have dementia. I save all my posts in a text file I call Forums.  I do a search in that file to find out what I said or did in the past.

 

I still love music.

 

Teresa

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I answered both polls :

Retail price of my system -- 20-50k.

Retail price of my speakers - 20-50k.

            :)

            

BTW my music collection (retail price new) is worth more than that O.o

I really have no idea how this was possible. I don't recall having such money in my pocket or on my bank account..! 

             x-D

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

I answered both polls :

Retail price of my system -- 20-50k.

Retail price of my speakers - 20-50k.

            :)

            

BTW my music collection (retail price new) is worth more than that O.o

I really have no idea how this was possible. I don't recall having such money in my pocket or on my bank account..! 

             x-D

 

 

 

interesting never counted my 3000 + CD's or my 1400 + LP's. 

The Truth Is Out There

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My speakers are about 5000euro but that Is a diy build so without labor cost.

Meitner ma1 v2 dac,  Sovereign preamp and power amp,

DIY speakers, scan speak illuminator.

Raal Requisite VM-1a -> SR-1a with Accurate Sound convolution.

Under development:

NUC7i7dnbe, Euphony Stylus, Qobuz.

Modded Buffalo-fiber-EtherRegen, DC3- Isoregen, Lush^2

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