Realistic Nova 7B. Two pair in good condition for $30.00 total.
Nice! Any pics?
Realistic Nova 7B. Two pair in good condition for $30.00 total.
I have found a few other vintage speakers with real wood veneer that some meat puppet painted......one on eBay put brown latex paint on a pair of Imp 6 and was bragging about the "finish". It almost brought tears to my eyes!
Did you get them and how do they sound??
Yes I got them and stacked them on my other pair. It's almost like being in the front row of a concert.
What area of town?Another set of W90/S at a Garage sale for $50
Realistic Minimus 1s $17
Realistic Nova 6s that look like they just came out of the box.....not ONE scratch!
How do you like the minimus 1? Are yours USA or Japan made? I saw One in a thrift store recently, but it had replacement drivers in it so I passed.
That's one of my "bucket list" speakers for no good reason, I just think they are neat.
ST.VITAL!What area of town?
I must be in the wrong area.
I actually really really like them. I have a set of Minimus 7Ws for my rear surround HT setup (driven by a Marantz 4002) and decided to try the 1s as the front mains. The Marantz is 80 wpc and the speakers rated at 25 watts max so I carefully fed the ones more and more volume (on two channel mode) up to the point where the speakers were outputting some serious volume with zero distortion. I then ran the amp through its auto room correction with them and fired up "Hacksaw Ridge" on Blue Ray and decided to really shake them down..........and the little 47 year old speakers just laughed at my efforts. Bombs, BARs, Garrands and navel guns at volumes that would really piss off my neighbors mean they now are the front mains. This set of Ones sound better than the 7s, hands down. I like the 7s a lot but they dont have as good as bass as the Ones. At the volumes I run my HT setup they are just perfect for me. As you can see in the picture they fit perfectly in my tv stand so for $17 I am happy. Before I had a nice little set of Sony SS B150s in there and all things being told, they probably sounded better, maybe, but I like how the walnut cabinets and cool sparkly grills look a lot better so they will stay.
The sticker on the back of my simply say "Japan" so I assume they were made there by Foster like most other RS speakers.
Oh OK thanks.I do most of my garage salinger in Charleswood and St James on my bike.I think i might have to expand out a bit more.congrats on the speakers I would of bought them too.was there any other stereo gear there?ST.VITAL!
Oh OK thanks.I do most of my garage salinger in Charleswood and St James on my bike.I think i might have to expand out a bit more.congrats on the speakers I would of bought them too.was there any other stereo gear there?
Thanks for the info! I love finding rare and interesting things......especially at thrift stores.The minimus 1 was originally made in the USA, and advertised as such, then production was moved to Japan, presumably to save cost. Some say it was heavily inspired by the tiny speakers goodmans made in the late sixties. Have a look at them some time and see what I mean. I think at this stage they are fairly rare.
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For $100 I got a set of JBL 4408 on Wed that had new surrounds installed 3 years ago...