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IMF owners thread!

Anyone have a pair of Compact Monitor III's, I wondered how do they fare in the pecking order. I'm after a good pair of bookshelf speakers and although these are on the large size they may be what I'm looking for, I was considering trying to pick up a pair of KEF 104ab's, would these be better?
 
Hey hynotoad

Note you are in Melbourne. There is a pair for sale on gumtree for $600. Same seller but more on eBay. Cant comment on them though as never owned a pair.
 
Yes I know the owner of those units in Melbourne and he's a very good person to buy anything from. He;s a top level tech with loads of experience and he won't sell anything that's suspect at all. I can vouch for him through and through.

And while we're at it, I have a pair of CM3's and they are very nice speakers indeed as I run them in my main living room on a Pioneer SX-1050 and they sound amazing.
 
I'd like my imfs back (Als40's) i have a feeling they'd work well with my Sansui amps sadly long gone now
 
Yes we are. Cheers from Norway.

Currently working on a dedicated listening room for the IMF speakers. Really looking forward to use them there.

Here is my temporary system i my small livingroom, but tho, they sound great together with the Sansui AU-111 :)
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Tor-S said:
Yes we are. Cheers from Norway.

Currently working on a dedicated listening room for the IMF speakers. Really looking forward to use them there.

Here is my temporary system i my small livingroom, but tho, they sound great together with the Sansui AU-111 :)
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Beautiful the Sansui AU-111. I have one myself that's been restored back to her former glory.
 
That is a nice looking room - personally I have three sets of speakers and each gets their play time - and one of them remains my IMFs......
 
I still to this day have not even removed my CM2's out of their packing box and looked at them, yet alone played them. Very Naughty indeed of me.

Yes Grand Final day all over Australia yesterday and the good team did get the chocolates. The SANFL is still going here in Adelaide with our GF being played next Sunday at Adelaide Oval.
 
montrecott said:
Did some work on the Super Compact II cabinets recently which seemed to help with the light scratches. I was told a previous owner had these restored by Midwest Speaker in Minneapolis with crossovers from Falcon Acoustics. Anyway, they sound excellent to me.

If you do a search of these online you'll see comments about them needing a lot of power but I haven't found that to be true. Mine sound really good with a Yamaha CR-1020 (which is about 75wpc) in a medium-sized room. What are others using for amplification?

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Is that foam rubber in the port? I have a set of CM3's that have foam rubber filling the chamber leading to the port. Since these speakers have been robbed of a few key components, like the midrange, and I am quite certain that the Dayton x-overs aren't factory, makes me wonder what else isn't right. I must say, I thought that foam rubber to be quite odd, seems like that would block nearly all the air flow
 
For anyone interested, I've been following an eBay Auction that was running in the USA where the IMF Market is rather soft to say the least.

The outcome somewhat shocked me as it sat on around US$305 for nearly a week and the big figures came in in the dying seconds.

Check out the final figure yourself in the screenshot.

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And to think these weren't in the best cosmetic condition by a long shot sporting decent scratches all over the place.


Cheers.
 
IMF_Pioneer said:
For anyone interested, I've been following an eBay Auction that was running in the USA where the IMF Market is rather soft to say the least.

The outcome somewhat shocked me as it sat on around US$305 for nearly a week and the big figures came in in the dying seconds.

Check out the final figure yourself in the screenshot.

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And to think these weren't in the best cosmetic condition by a long shot sporting decent scratches all over the place.


Cheers.
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Wow!
 
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Picked these TLS 50 mkii up a about 4 years ago and just love 'em! Not sure how they compare to others in the IMF catalogue. I've rotated other speakers through, and changed amps and receivers. Still, nothing really pleases as much as these do with my luxman. Maybe my Technics suv9. I'll continue the research though:)
 
Hi all seeking clarification from the brains trust.
I purchased a pair of celestion hf1300 8ohm diaphragms from eBay. The seller is the ninomusicfrance seller.

I received this IMG_20211110_193524.jpg

It is a plastic type round dome but the original diaphragm you see in the background is a fabric type pointed dome.
The paper spacer that came with the replacement doesn't fit the magnet either.
I emailed ninomusicfrance and the reply was that it is compatible?

Is this right?
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Basically Andrew, that's about all that's available as far as replacement coils are concerned. It's either replace with another full component via eBay or get two coils and do both existing tweeters so that they are the same in specification.

Yes there will be differences.

Sadly Celestion no longer support any of their earlier British made stuff as they are in Asian Ownership now. Just like MG cars.
 
I see, thanks IMF_pioneer. Any one tried the replacement coil option with the existing domes? As it turns out their may not appear to be anything wrong with my hf1300 as they are measuring 3.7ohms steadily. Have to test it out connected back in the crossovers though.
 
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