I have an appointment tomorrow in Revere to audition another used pair of L1290/2s. 550$ if I use a credit card and 480$ if I pay cash. Last pair of these with the opening on the back not bottom, had a ferrofluid problem and I had to rebuild the entire system. I hope they aren't too clogged up. I at least can drive to the home and avoid shipping cost. I bought my main front pair on Ebay and they were black with the crossover located at the bottom. I still haven't had to rebuild this pair yet. No ferro fluid problem and drivers show no sign of abuse or exhibit any distortion. Picked them up in Connecticut. The pair I did a total rebuild on also came from Connecticut, but found them on Craigslist. They were walnut colored but I sanded them smooth and painted them black to match the front. I will have to do this to this pair if I get them. The wife is all pissy about my obsession, but when she watches movies she does appreciate all the effort. I am currently rebuilding my entire home with a total gut, and cutting the roof to go up an entire 3rd floor. It is a two family and I had to get a variance from the city to do it. I am currently on the second floor and when the first floor is complete we will move downstairs and the top floors will get done. I am going to have the luxury of building the theater room to help with the acoustics. My AV60 preamp from Anthem has a really nice room correction system and it helped me get much better control over the room gain problem. I spent hours sweeping frequencies to crossover my sub and to try to tame the boom in the room. Ended up with the THX 80 hz recommendation but could only go so loud before boom became obvious. My room is terrible right now. I got rid of my super thick rug because it got dirty and have all hardwood floors. Smooth plasterboard walls and two large picture windows. Get the picture? Echo chamber. Reflections everywhere, long decay rate, real pain to tame. After running the arc system I was amazed at the improvement. Bass is super heavy on the low end and I can play louder than before. The crossover was bumped up to 120hz. I still have all the surrounds and center as large. A little disapointed that I couldn't get it to sound this good on my own but computers are good at this measuring thing. The system uses a calibrated mic and runs a dwooip dwooip signal for each speaker as well as the sub. I then creates some kind of filter for each individual speaker alot more than just parametric eq. Works way better than my old Onkyo AVR with Audessy did. Every thing is now mothballed. My daughter moved back home and just had our first grandchild. All the wires had to be hidden and the rack will now have to be dismantled till we move back up when all is complete. I really miss playing the sound at the perfect level on a super good recording and hearing all the octaves and feeling the lowest bass in the floor all in tune and going right through my etire body with the clarity I have only heard from ADS. Using Roxul safe and sound for the entire house for insulation. And QuietRock 510 throughout the theater room and surrounding walls and ceilings. I will get a new super thick rug to help with the floor and some absorption panels for the walls. I will have the luxury of all new wiring and hidden as well. I was going to run conduit for the speaker wires so I could use some that is not wall rated. The inspector said a conduit would protect the wire.I guess the insulation material can give off fumes in case of fire. The Roxul is fire resistant so that should help. Have to figure out a way to mount 4 1290/2s on the ceiling. Once again wife is not happy about that, but I told her this is one room she has no control over and the rest of the house she can control. My little slice of heaven someday. Here is a couple of pics guys, but not the final solution yet.
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With my work schedule, I had to take a week off for vacation to get this done. I admit I'm a work'aholic ... That said, I'm sure there are some local craftsman that would be happy to do this for you. Richard had the one he has made for him, or someone built it for him as a gift? Craigslist, Local phone apps like 5mile are a good source for finding someone close to you that has the skills/tools to do it. In my opinion, it's well worth it.
