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Thread on how far have you gone to get your audio gears...

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Well worth the trip picking up my Craigslist curb alert RSII/QLS-1, braving 100+degree heat and boiling radiator finger biting.
 
24 hour round trip here to for my polk 1.2tl's. Ct. to Delaware and then onto just outside of Wash DC for some more gear. It rained hard for the entire trip to. Yes I'd do it again if I had to.
 
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LA area to SF area for NS-690s, twice...

Once flew from Detroit to Seattle for a car but that's a different forum.
 
Took a two hour ferry, then one hour dirve to the US border. Had a 2 hour wait at the border and drove another hour and a half to Seattle. Picked up a Marantz 2500. I was so happy to get it, I might have driven another 10 hours if I had to.
 
San Diego to Ukiah CA for a pair of L220's... made a nice wine country vacation trip out of that. Also trekked over to Phoenix on a 1 day trip for a nice pair of ADS L1230. Those trips worked out great, the one up to Sacramento for a pair of "excellent" L1230, not so much... total crap, they were.


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Wow, I think a little over an hour away is my limit! I guess I'm not really looking for anything though.
 
Drove from White River Junction Vermont to Watertown, Massachusetts to pick up a pair of EV Sentry 3's. Back breaking...about a six hour trip both ways included and well worth it. Although a flaw developed with them. EV's Jim Long sent me a brand new pair N/C prepaid and paid for the return shipping costs of the defects. That's when shipping things were reasonable. To do that same thing today would approach $1,000.00. I later sold them and the fella that bought them tells me they are running beautifully a decade or two later. Boy the radial horn in those was something else...if you sat anywhere near those they would likely fry your ear drums. Great if your into producing most LIVE concert music where volume and not so much quality is concerned. Still a great speaker system and company IMHO. Best, Ralph
 
Only had to drive 80 miles to where I bought my Khorns, but it took me 30 years to get there.
 
2 hours one way, happened twice one for a pair of smaller Advents and a second time for the Miracord 50H just last weekend.
Pleasant way to spend half a day on the road when you get something you wanted.
 
I just drove from Michigan to Washington DC for a pair of jbl c56 cabs to house my LE14c over the holidays. I suppose celebrating Christmas with my family there was just a plus. Funny how the rest of the family saw it as the other way around :D
 
2 birds...These Polk's were my Dad's. So I got them for free and visited with family.
 
I drove from Ottawa to Winnipeg to trade a McIntosh MAC1900 receiver for a Bose 1801/4401 Amp/Preamp package. I had been looking for 6 months for the preamp and the amp is my second 1801. I almost have a Super Bose System! :)

This was over a 4000 km round trip! Good thing I could justify the trip! The family homestead was a day trip away from Winnipeg.
 
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I just drove from Michigan to Washington DC for a pair of jbl c56 cabs to house my LE14c over the holidays. I suppose celebrating Christmas with my family there was just a plus. Funny how the rest of the family saw it as the other way around :D
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I've driven all over the place to get, trade, and sell gear, but most of my long trips have been associated with visits to family and friends.

Whenever I plan a visit I check out CL, Ebay, and whatever other sites I can think of. Anything within 30 to 60 minutes of where I am going is fair game. Given that I regularly travel up to 6 hours in all directions from Philadelphia, that gives me a huge search area.
 
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