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[Sparkie]

This just popped up at a local estate sale next week. bad picture but it looks interesting.

 

[ggregg]

Looks to be a custom install in a cabinet, like a Barzilay. The receiver looks older Pioneer.

 

[Leland47]

Don't know. Could be early solid state....or late tube?

 

[Sparkie]

The receiver is indeed a Pioneer. Good eye ggreg! a pioneer sx-800 with a garrard lab-80 tt and a sony RtR. i could not figure out what the speakers are but they are huge. i am doing some quick rationalizing and trying to figure out just how the heck im going to move the beast. i am tempted to just yank out the electronics and leave the cabinet but it is in real nice shape. i am thinking the speakers might be some good stuff just because everything else looks quality.

 

[danrclem]

No way I'd leave the cabinet. It looks really nice.

 

[Sparkie]

So i sat around at the estate sale and removed all the electronics from the cabinet because it was just too heavy to move. at this time a man walked in and gave the estate people a wad of cash for everything left in the house. They then said that i had to get everything out right then because they were going home. i had calls out to several people with trucks but had no success. i then stated that i was going to stay right there with the stereo until i got a truck there. they looked a little peeved and we danced around with that for a bit. finally the lady said to her son "throw this in the van and follow him to his house". So we convoyed to my place and i slipped the kid 40 bucks for the trouble. All in all i got the stereo cabinet bought and delivered for a bit over 100 bucks.

So i yanked the back off the speakers and they appear to have all pioneer drivers. does anyone have any ideas on what kind of speakers these might be?

 

[Sparkie]

 

[danrclem]

Don't know anything about the speakers but overall I think you got a smokin' deal.
Love the cabinet.

 

[Sparkie]

Solved by doctorolds! They are custom built cabinets with a Pioneer AS-305A speaker kit.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/pioneer-speaker-id.765732/

 

[biscuithead]

No way I'd leave the cabinet. It looks really nice.

Personally, I'd take the cabinets and flip the electronics. I've had the Pio-301s , and not a fan. The SX-800 was one of my first tube pieces and almost kept me from other tube pieces. I would gut the cabinets, flip them on the bay, and take the 3-400 hundo and put in something else. That cabinet looks keen! This is the fun of the hobby! Good scoop either way!

 

[Leland47]

Could check out Yahoo Japan....and see if similar speakers are a hot/wanted item there....