ESS Amt1s Denver,co

skud007

Active Member

• Sep 20, 2015

• #1

I would probably jump on these if I didn't have so many other speakers LOL!
http://denver.craigslist.org/ele/5223816597.html

 

Brad Muller

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• Sep 20, 2015

• #2

I'd get those no matter what.:yes:

 

x3workshop

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• Sep 20, 2015

• #3

The big Heils are worth that alone. I'd grab em.

 

skud007

Active Member

• Sep 20, 2015

• #4

So tempting!

 

Karmices

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• Sep 20, 2015

• #5

I've always liked ESS AMT speakers. For some looking for nice, really underpriced set of speakers this is a great buy. I'd jump on it.

 

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Mcenroe7

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• Sep 20, 2015

• #6

Cannot believe they are still available? (ad up still).
awesome speakers.

 

HyKlas

Super Member

• Sep 20, 2015

• #7

Maybe someone can explain the ribbed woofers? Never seen an ESS with those...

 

Bucky Badger

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• Sep 20, 2015

• #8

I agree with Brad.:yes:

 

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CT Jim

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #9

How does one lose the grilles for something like that? Big box or cap style, they're not little dinky flat grill cloth grilles?

I sold ESS back in the day, liked the Amt-1's, but bought their bigger brother the AMT-3 rock monitors. All the ESS speakers with the Heil unit had a very nice presence.

Considering someone might get them for less than the asking price, it could be a good deal.

 

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Dissonant

Active Member

• Sep 21, 2015

• #10

Nice deal, especially since the resurrected ESS can provide replacement parts to add many more years to them. No dinky AMT pretenders the size of a dome tweeter that seem to be permeating the modern market; a good AMT is a big AMT and no one does it as well as the granddaddy of them all.

 

EVBoy

Super Member

• Sep 21, 2015

• #11

Ribbed woofers? Are they original? How did he lose the grills?
Anyway, it's a good deal.

 

audiomagnate

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #12

EVBoy said:

Ribbed woofers? Are they original? How did he lose the grills?
Anyway, it's a good deal.

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The grill frames are very delicate to begin with also deteriorate with age, so you end up with a difficult to repair item that takes up a lot of space, so I'm sure a lot of them got tossed.

 

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skud007

Active Member

• Sep 21, 2015

• #13

EVBoy said:

Ribbed woofers? Are they original? How did he lose the grills?
Anyway, it's a good deal.

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That's what I was wondering? Anything else I should look for or listen for if I go check them out?

 

Brad Muller

Super Member

• Sep 21, 2015

• #14

I sold a set of Great Heils for $400 once.:yes:

 

lildoug

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #15

Really not hard to imagine the grills getting lost/tossed. When I got mine, the covers needed a serious reconstruction job. Probably not too difficult to make a new frame for them.

 

skud007

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #16

Well, they are headed home with me! Woofers need new foam but everything else is working. Ended up giving $160 for them.

 

Karmices

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #17

skud007 said:

Well, they are headed home with me! Woofers need new foam but everything else is working. Ended up giving $160 for them.

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Nice score! :thmbsp: Post photos once you get the refoamed end enjoy them.

 

Leben

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #18

Congrats!

 

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Dissonant

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• Sep 21, 2015

• #19

skud007 said:

Well, they are headed home with me! Woofers need new foam but everything else is working. Ended up giving $160 for them.

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I'd contact ESS to see if they have any updated replacements for the driver. They seem to have some here. That could push performance up a notch more than refoaming the old drivers.

 

skud007

Active Member

• Sep 21, 2015

• #20

Dissonant said:

I'd contact ESS to see if they have any updated replacements for the driver. They seem to have some here. That could push performance up a notch more than refoaming the old drivers.

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I was thinking the same thing. I was browsing their website before I went to check them out.

Thank you guys for talking me into getting these. I gave them a light audition when I got home and was pretty impressed.