Gerts
New Member
I will try to keep this as short as possible.
I went the other day to look at a pair of mint Yamaha NS-1000M for sale and wow were they mint. They could have passed for new! I have a pair of mint Yamaha NS-690’s and I really like them a lot. From all my research everyone says if you like the 690 you will love the 1000. So I show up and the guy had them hooked up so I was able to audition them. They sounded good but to be honest they were ok. Now I know that they were not being powered with the greatest equipment but I still was not impressed. I run a Krell amp and a Classe’ pre amp in my system so maybe that’s why my 690 sound so good.
So this guy has tons of equipment for sale. From amps, pre amps, turntables and speakers. He mentioned that I might like the sound of the Infinity Renaissance 90? I never heard of that model before. We went to another room where he had them set up. He had it powered with some really nice gear. Cant remember the name of the amp but it was 400 watts and was huge! He was also running a McIntosh C 504 pre and a SACD player. Well they blew me away! Wow they were nice!
Now ribbons are new to me. One mid looked perfect but the other mid ribbon has some wrinkles or bubbling. Good or bad? Something to be concerned about?
Tweeters look really good from what I can see.
Overall condition I would give them an 8.5 out of 10. The top wood on both is separated a little or warped where they seemed it together. Not sure why Infinity did not use a solid piece of oak?
He has an extra mid with no ribbon. Also 2 extra crossovers. One for the bottom sub and cone mid that will go with the speakers.
I don’t know anything about them other than I was very pleased with how they sounded.
He is wanting $1500 for them. Not sure if I can post what he is selling them for? I don’t want to get in trouble and my post pulled. Is this a fair price?
If the one mid was not wrinkled or has the bubble look going on I probably would not be to concerned. I looked up what it cost to replace the mid ribbon and was shocked!
Any recommendations or advise would be awesome!
Thank you
I went the other day to look at a pair of mint Yamaha NS-1000M for sale and wow were they mint. They could have passed for new! I have a pair of mint Yamaha NS-690’s and I really like them a lot. From all my research everyone says if you like the 690 you will love the 1000. So I show up and the guy had them hooked up so I was able to audition them. They sounded good but to be honest they were ok. Now I know that they were not being powered with the greatest equipment but I still was not impressed. I run a Krell amp and a Classe’ pre amp in my system so maybe that’s why my 690 sound so good.
So this guy has tons of equipment for sale. From amps, pre amps, turntables and speakers. He mentioned that I might like the sound of the Infinity Renaissance 90? I never heard of that model before. We went to another room where he had them set up. He had it powered with some really nice gear. Cant remember the name of the amp but it was 400 watts and was huge! He was also running a McIntosh C 504 pre and a SACD player. Well they blew me away! Wow they were nice!
Now ribbons are new to me. One mid looked perfect but the other mid ribbon has some wrinkles or bubbling. Good or bad? Something to be concerned about?
Tweeters look really good from what I can see.
Overall condition I would give them an 8.5 out of 10. The top wood on both is separated a little or warped where they seemed it together. Not sure why Infinity did not use a solid piece of oak?
He has an extra mid with no ribbon. Also 2 extra crossovers. One for the bottom sub and cone mid that will go with the speakers.
I don’t know anything about them other than I was very pleased with how they sounded.
He is wanting $1500 for them. Not sure if I can post what he is selling them for? I don’t want to get in trouble and my post pulled. Is this a fair price?
If the one mid was not wrinkled or has the bubble look going on I probably would not be to concerned. I looked up what it cost to replace the mid ribbon and was shocked!
Any recommendations or advise would be awesome!
Thank you