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Wharfedale w70's

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That's a great price. I just paid more than that for a pair of smaller wharfedales. (w60).
 
Just talked to the seller. He lives about 5 miles from me in the same county. We plan on meeting tomorrow. :yes: Seems he is a retired speaker guy and has a lot of stuff he's getting rid of. He has a set of Altec's, but they aren't the original drivers. And the price is correct. He knows they are under-priced, but no one around here seems to know what they are.. he also mentioned some Jensens. I'm gonna take a good look around and see if there is anything else interesting over there...:yes:
 
Some of my best scores/deals have come from the "you got anything else?" part of the deal, or keeping in contact with the sellers. There's a lot of collectors out there who seem to just get fed up one day with a lack of space and start to unload. Just be there when they do!

-j
 
I think they are W70Ds that have the better and later fried egg tweeter. If you do not grab them you'll regret it. Expect to replace the x-over caps as the systems are old enough but provided the guy was knowledgeable and did not abuse them with big power, you've hit a mini-goldmine. I've got the earlier W70s with no suffix and they are ties for 2nd place in my collection.
 
I couldn't sell these for $50 Lots of people promised to come buy and look at them and none did. I will give them one more try on Sunday and then the drivers come out and the I burn the cabs. I no longer have room for them and several sets of Advents.
Ed
 
Did you and Randall connect? Wish I were nearby as I they'd be out of your house by now. It will be a shame to destroy the cabinets and remember when you do, you'll have a pile of sand to deal with.
 
I have tried to sell these Wharfedale at ridicules low prices and no one shows any interest. I have put Advents on CL for $25 with new surrounds and no buyers. I gave up for a year and just tried again and no results.I buy and sell a lot of bicycle. I sold two today. Vintage Bikes are all the rage now. People can't afford $2500 for a bike to just ride around the neighborhood. Bikes are going through what vintage audio went through 10 years ago. I have sold 10 bikes in the last month all on CL.I had my shop full of speakers and they need to go to make room for other projects. I reached a point this week where I decided to get rid of all the excess in audio equipment. I have other hobbies and this became a compulsive thing to keep getting more. I have been into good audio equipment all my life but I have so much in excess that it is stupid. I know this sounds familiars to many of you. I go to vintage bicycle forums and see the same compulsion to have a lot because it is cheap. I know ,I know it is a sickness but I have broken the cycle. I just came from a model aircraft forum and a guy's thread is labeled "I need help" and the is a picture of his cellar with hundreds of models in it.To bad more of you don't live near me I would give you deals better than GW.
EddyR
 
I hear ya...I have a model ship sickness that was only cured when it was replaced by the vintage audio sickness. There's lot of posts on the model ship forums about it being a disease.

I was good this weekend. I only acquired one pair of speakers, and I got rid of a pre-amp, tape deck and another pair of speakers to get them in trade. Does that mean my sickness is going away?

BTW, I'd buy those wharfedales in a heartbeat if you listed them on Chicago's CL....

-john
 
I had one of the most beautiful pairs of W70's you would ever want to see! They had the stands and beautiful metal grills. I had totally refurbed the cabinets. I ran out of room and eventually listed them on Ebay "pick up Only" I got one bid for $100. I hated to see them go but I had no room to keep them. They are great sounding speakers when driven with moderate power at reasonable levels. I wish I had been able to keep them.
 
When I decided I had enough of audio equipment rolling years ago and ended up with my 1 system. I collected nothing but vinyl for several years then somehow got into cameras. Before I came to earth I have some 300 and 1,000 lenses including every 1/4 frame made by Olympus, every variant from Exacta, a number of Zeiss Ikontas and tones of others. Finally traded almost everything for a FULL Bronica ETRS system, Minox ML and CL. Also have my Leica and Rollieflex. Still have from the collection my Polaroid 195 and 180 and in the basement a very large shipping crate of other Polaroid folders that I issued to my photography students. Started to grow my audio equip collection since this board opened and my wife on several occaisions has expressed that she wishes I'd go back to cameras since they took up less space.
 
Hey Eddy

Why don't you throw a bunch of stuff in a truck and drive it down to RTP??? I'm sure you could sell a lot of it immediately, and then have Homer sell the rest on commission....:deal:
 
I live between two cities so I raised the price and changed my location and sold the Wharfedale's. What is RTP? Randall said he was coming buy twice but never showed up.His Loss
EddyR
 
Hey, now that's marketing! Congrats and thank you for not ripping them apart and piecing them out.
 
EddyR said:
I live between two cities so I raised the price and changed my location and sold the Wharfedale's. What is RTP? Randall said he was coming buy twice but never showed up.His Loss
EddyR
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RTP= research triangle park, an area between raleigh, cary & durham or chapel hill?
 
Missed them

:thumbsdn:

Got sick after I had promised to call Ed. Just went back to work today, called and they were gone....gonna go home and beat which ever kid gave me the bug.....:cry:
 
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