No love for Infinity SL's

[Ric Harris]

I recently snagged a pair of Infinity SL 20's for under 40.00 and their in remarkable condition. The surrounds weren't even close to rotten. That's a first. They've been on ebay for 2 auctions and not even a sniff. If they were RS's they'd be long sold.
In my years of monkeying with old speakers I've found perception of a make or model has often times little to do the facts.
I have a pair of RSL 2 ways that are absolutely identical to some MK's I once had. If they had the MK logo they'd sell for more. Rogers Sound Lab? Who are they? *Sigh*
Anyway what's the rap on SL's or Sterling's for that matter. Especially in that 5 1/4 design they use the same woofers in all of them as well as CC's and and so on.
Eh I'm whining some but seriously whats the rap on SL's

 

[Ric Harris]

I recently snagged a pair of Infinity SL 20's for under 40.00 and their in remarkable condition. The surrounds weren't even close to rotten. That's a first. They've been on ebay for 2 auctions and not even a sniff. If they were RS's they'd be long sold.
In my years of monkeying with old speakers I've found perception of a make or model has often times little to do the facts.
I have a pair of RSL 2 ways that are absolutely identical to some MK's I once had. If they had the MK logo they'd sell for more. Rogers Sound Lab? Who are they? *Sigh*
Anyway what's the rap on SL's or Sterling's for that matter. Especially in that 5 1/4 design they use the same woofers in all of them as well as CC's and and so on.
Eh I'm whining some but seriously whats the rap on SL's

The RS pictured sold 275.00 and they didn't sound 200.00 better than the SL's

 

[tubeampking]

I had a pair...harsh top end and boxy sounding to me..

 

[jazzmans]

I dislike that tweeter on the SL's greatly.

 

[halo71]

Same here! Harsh tweeter....

 

[Ric Harris]

I dislike that tweeter on the SL's greatly.

I'd agree but is it the tweeter or is it the crossover? I just overhauled some JBL's for a buddy that the crossovers were frankly poor at best. I replaced the caps with a little higher voltage same uf and slightly larger resistors. It made some difference. J 2600 kind of well.... suck. I'll admit I ended up putting an Audax tweeter in it. That made it acceptable to my ears. He thought it was all that so that story ended well.
Unfortunately swapping tweeters won't make them more appealing to ebay buyers.

So my next pair to sell is some SS 2003's any opinions on those?