Electro-Voice Esquire value?

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proto85

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I have a Bottlehead S.E.X. and now that I am getting my own place I'd like to move from headphones and into speakers. I have heard that the Esquires might work well with the amp and I found a pair for sale nearby. The drivers look to be in good condition and I believe both speakers have been recapped.

What would a pair in very good condition be worth? I am still a beginner in this space, and I'd like to prevent overspending on my first purchase.
 
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For best results and IMO, you need to find out whether they have the 8" EV "Wolverine" twincone midrange driver or (as some models did), a much more generic (and smaller) cone MR in an 8 inch 'package'.
They're not particularly common, but I've never seen 'em goin' for big $ (i.e., nothing like what they sound like) -- maybe (and this is a SWAG) $200 the pair if they're really nice.
Cane grilles or cloth grilles?

EV Esquire noflash by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

IMO, they'd be very pleasant with S*E*X amp. I know they're nice with Paramours :)
 
Last year I sold a nice pair with the Wolverine drivers and proper cane grills for $150.00. If I recall correctly, I paid $125.00 for them some years earlier.
 
mhardy6647 said:
For best results and IMO, you need to find out whether they have the 8" EV "Wolverine" twincone midrange driver or (as some models did), a much more generic (and smaller) cone MR in an 8 inch 'package'.
They're not particularly common, but I've never seen 'em goin' for big $ (i.e., nothing like what they sound like) -- maybe (and this is a SWAG) $200 the pair if they're really nice.
Cane grilles or cloth grilles?

EV Esquire noflash by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

IMO, they'd be very pleasant with S*E*X amp. I know they're nice with Paramours :)
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They have the Wolverine twincone and the Cane grilles.
 
nbarber said:
Last year I sold a nice pair with the Wolverine drivers and proper cane grills for $150.00. If I recall correctly, I paid $125.00 for them some years earlier.
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He wants a little over double what you sold yours for. It seems like he has over priced them then.
 
Just an fyi ev speakers might be one of the most undervalued / underrated maker of vintage speakers out there.

The handful of ev speakers I got the chance to own / hear really impressed me overall.

Just an example. A couple years ago I was selling some klipsch forte speakers. And at that same time I had a pair of ev sentry V speakers in the same room and was going to sell them also. I had been listening to the forte speakers for quite a while and really loving their sound. I started to second guess my desire to sell em. Then I hooked up the sentry V speakers and was blown away by how great they sounded. Imo they were every bit as good and in ways better. It absolutely stunned me. Really made me wish I'd have looked into other ev speakers back in my audio buying frenzy decades ago.

Imo I'd simply listen to those speakers your considering and decide for yourself if they sound like speakers worth the asking price. I sold my forte speakers for around $800 as they were mint. My sentry V speakers were also mint and I planned to sell them for $200. I still have the V speakers. And imo they sound better than the forte. To each their own.

The biggest lesson I learned in the audio hobby is something that is said to folks all the time, and often it falls on deaf ears. Listen and you decide. It took me nearly 15 years of being in the hobby to really appreciate that mentality.

Also keep in mind folks hear things differently and that old saying, different strokes for different folks. No one right gear for everyone.

Have fun with it all.
 
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