Selling audophile speakers

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some years back, before i left my last job in my home state, a coworker gave me a pair of Klipschorn speakers from the late 70s/early 80s. these things are massive: almost five feet high, maybe a meter wide and a meter deep, and weigh quite a bit.

From another forum, the speakers are in St. Paul. How do you sell something that big? :shock:

 

[twocorgis]

some years back, before i left my last job in my home state, a coworker gave me a pair of Klipschorn speakers from the late 70s/early 80s. these things are massive: almost five feet high, maybe a meter wide and a meter deep, and weigh quite a bit.

From another forum, the speakers are in St. Paul. How do you sell something that big? :shock:

My guess would be somewhere like here, but shipping them's going to suck.

 

[Dr. Spivey]

I'm sure a real Klipsch fan would find a way to get them to the moon if need be. :wink:

Back in the early 80's I had a pair of AR LST's. Maybe half the size of Klipschorns, but certainly a big, heavy speaker. After about a year, I admitted that they were too big for my room and put them up for sale. The first guy that looked at them bought them. Gave me a hundred down, to return the next day with the rest. He shows up late the next day with $400, in ones, fives and quarters. :roll: We count the dough and then wrestle the first speaker out to his car, which I had not seen the day before. A rusted out Pinto wagon. About 10 seconds after we put the other speaker in his car, the floor collapsed. :shock: The guy didn't bat an eyelash, he closed the tailgate, shook my hand and drove off smiling.

Audio addiction can lead to an odd sense of priorities. :wink:

 

[twocorgis]

I'm sure a real Klipsch fan would find a way to get them to the moon if need be. :wink:

Back in the early 80's I had a pair of AR LST's. Maybe half the size of Klipschorns, but certainly a big, heavy speaker. After about a year, I admitted that they were too big for my room and put them up for sale. The first guy that looked at them bought them. Gave me a hundred down, to return the next day with the rest. He shows up late the next day with $400, in ones, fives and quarters. :roll: We count the dough and then wrestle the first speaker out to his car, which I had not seen the day before. A rusted out Pinto wagon. About 10 seconds after we put the other speaker in his car, the floor collapsed. :shock: The guy didn't bat an eyelash, he closed the tailgate, shook my hand and drove off smiling.

Audio addiction can lead to an odd sense of priorities. :wink:

Reminds me of my old cycling days. You wouldn't believe how many of those guys had a bike that was worth ten times what their car was!

 

[adorshki]

Back in the early 80's I had a pair of AR LST's.
Audio addiction can lead to an odd sense of priorities. :wink:

Acoustic Research! Yeah! The only other forum I've seen as laid back as this one:
http://www.classicspeakerpages.net/

I replaced the surrounds on my AR28b woofers myself about 6 years ago!

 

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I need to rebuild the crossovers on my ar3a's. The tone control on one is cutting the midrange in and out. :evil:

 

[adorshki]

I need to rebuild the crossovers on my ar3a's. The tone control on one is cutting the midrange in and out. :evil:

oooooh baby AR3a's!!!!! Did you happen to notice there's a full manual on restoring 'em on the home page of that link I posted? (I just looked).

 

[adorshki]

From another forum, the speakers are in St. Paul. How do you sell something that big? :shock:

In fact what you do is palletize 'em and have 'em shipped on regular trucks with instructions that the pallets are "non-stackable". It's how we ship skids of paper to areas we don't cover with our own trucks, via UPS' "Motor Cargo" division. It's expensive but safe compared to regular UPS ground.

 

[Ian]

And as a matter of interest I have a review of the AR LST's from an early issue of HiFi News and Record Review, and I just gave a pair of AR94's to a buddy of mine...

I'd have those Klipschorns in a snap, probably worth a fortune in Japan !!

 

[adorshki]

And as a matter of interest I have a review of the AR LST's from an early issue of HiFi News and Record Review, and I just gave a pair of AR94's to a buddy of mine...
I'd have those Klipschorns in a snap, probably worth a fortune in Japan !!

:lol: :lol: :lol: You're probably right! Probably best if they didn't find out about AR!