Fellow diy'ers, the time has come.
Shipping is limited to small items only.
Selling the house, so must clear out 30 years worth of the world's best hobby.
Some large, some small, some short, some tall.
Bring your friends, for a spending spree,
Some are expensive, but some are free.
Commercial speakers, bare wood hobby types, and lots of raw drivers. Some NOS, some just old.
This is not my retirement fund so you will be pleased with the prices, except of course with the expensive stuff.
Come rummage around, way too much to dig through and try to list it. Not all items are displayed in the photos.
Altec Lansing, Dynaco, Advent, Paisley, Sony, Selenium, CSS, Realistic, Cerwin Vega, Dahlquist, Community, JVC, HiVi, Motorola, Foster, Polk, Sammi, Airborne, Koss, Mission and Sharp are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
Includes:
Dust, at no extra charge.
Partial proceeds will be donated back to diyAudio. Amount depends on how much support this gets.
Shipping is limited to small items only.
Selling the house, so must clear out 30 years worth of the world's best hobby.
Some large, some small, some short, some tall.
Bring your friends, for a spending spree,
Some are expensive, but some are free.
Commercial speakers, bare wood hobby types, and lots of raw drivers. Some NOS, some just old.
This is not my retirement fund so you will be pleased with the prices, except of course with the expensive stuff.
Come rummage around, way too much to dig through and try to list it. Not all items are displayed in the photos.
Altec Lansing, Dynaco, Advent, Paisley, Sony, Selenium, CSS, Realistic, Cerwin Vega, Dahlquist, Community, JVC, HiVi, Motorola, Foster, Polk, Sammi, Airborne, Koss, Mission and Sharp are the ones I remember off the top of my head.
Includes:
Dust, at no extra charge.
Partial proceeds will be donated back to diyAudio. Amount depends on how much support this gets.
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hope you have a successful sale. May you have enough sales to funds some future projects.
Thanks Moray. I will be keeping some things for a project I've had in mind for a while. It will be my final kick at the can.
This here is a clearing house special event. You have to start somewhere even if it means dealing with the things closest to the heart first.
Cheers.
This here is a clearing house special event. You have to start somewhere even if it means dealing with the things closest to the heart first.
Cheers.
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I thought I had a hoarding problem 😂😂😂
Seriously…what Pano said!^^^
Wish I lived close enough…good luck with the sale!
Seriously…what Pano said!^^^
Wish I lived close enough…good luck with the sale!
Cal, appreciate you and good luck with the sale and move.
That is a massive collection you have and a surprise to no one but could be a boondoggle to many.
Too late to move that coax outlet away from the wood stove? Makes the A/V "warmer"?
That is a massive collection you have and a surprise to no one but could be a boondoggle to many.
Too late to move that coax outlet away from the wood stove? Makes the A/V "warmer"?
I'll believe that when I see you learn how to spell, mister.
Ah c'mon my friend, a quick 12 hour flight here without the Missus. Think about the possibilities.
Mind you, how are you at elevation these days, let alone on the tennis court?
Thank you good sir.
Appreciated. Thing is, I moved 15 years ago but had to keep the house just for speaker storage. 😉
Don my friend, I am going nowhere. Please see the note above. Since 2009, I have lived a but a few kms from my speaker nursery. I call it a nursery as I swear I every time I visit, I wonder what those rascals have been up to. It's getting hard to walk around there anymore. 😉
Cheers
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Good luck with the sale of the house too. Are you planning to stick around in the Vancouver area or will you be moving inland along with everybody else?
Tom
Tom
Hey Tom, since 2009, I moved 4 km away from the speaker warehouse. I am going nowhere, I just have to sell the house, and that house has a shipload of speakers in it. That's why I had to move out in the first place. The best person to consult is Mrs. Speakerholic. She weighs half what I do but seems to carry a lot of weight around here. 🙂
wow brother it has finally happened.
The reality of our hobby is a tough one to accept sometimes. I feel the pain my brother. Many of those speakers have some very fine memories.
The bed room Jimmy's were some very fine work.
I still recall the first set of speakers that you premiered at Al Woollies one fine spring day many years ago. A fine frankenstein of creative craftsmanshiper, a perfectly good set of car speakers turned into a mini R2D2 type setup.
And of course I note the set of speakers my brother made in 1973 high school with coral drivers that you rescued from my sister before they went away elsewhere.
What about the Altec refrigerators in the garage?
I am still keen on the pair of sdx7 mid bass drivers to match the set I have to make a lovely pair of helper woofers for the living room. Hold those for me if you would please.
Take care
I will be down to see you in a few weeks
Off on a camping trip this weekend for a while
The reality of our hobby is a tough one to accept sometimes. I feel the pain my brother. Many of those speakers have some very fine memories.
The bed room Jimmy's were some very fine work.
I still recall the first set of speakers that you premiered at Al Woollies one fine spring day many years ago. A fine frankenstein of creative craftsmanshiper, a perfectly good set of car speakers turned into a mini R2D2 type setup.
And of course I note the set of speakers my brother made in 1973 high school with coral drivers that you rescued from my sister before they went away elsewhere.
What about the Altec refrigerators in the garage?
I am still keen on the pair of sdx7 mid bass drivers to match the set I have to make a lovely pair of helper woofers for the living room. Hold those for me if you would please.
Take care
I will be down to see you in a few weeks
Off on a camping trip this weekend for a while
Hello brother,
Yes, the time has come.
My head is hanging low.
You have very good memories of our speaker escapades. From far and wide they have come and now they will go.
The large Altec 210 bass bins went away a few years back but I still have the A7 cabinets (pic 0474 above).
I will be keeping some of the larger pieces but most of it has to go.
Yes, you are welcome to the woofers, we just need something robust to fill the holes in the boombox as I plan to keep it for now.
Glad you are enjoying your new toy. Have a good time, hope the weather holds for you.
See you in a couple weeks.
Yes, the time has come.
My head is hanging low.
You have very good memories of our speaker escapades. From far and wide they have come and now they will go.
The large Altec 210 bass bins went away a few years back but I still have the A7 cabinets (pic 0474 above).
I will be keeping some of the larger pieces but most of it has to go.
Yes, you are welcome to the woofers, we just need something robust to fill the holes in the boombox as I plan to keep it for now.
Glad you are enjoying your new toy. Have a good time, hope the weather holds for you.
See you in a couple weeks.
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Oh man, wish I had more room!
My dad is just going through the same process with a 50 year bicycle hobby…
Am sure there were lots of great memories along the way.
My dad is just going through the same process with a 50 year bicycle hobby…
Am sure there were lots of great memories along the way.
Yes they continue to be good, just like your Dad's. I can relate. I built my first set of speakers in the summer of '74.
This is one of those times I'm both glad and sad I'm on the wrong side of the ocean. Good luck with it, letting go is a bitter sweet experience.
I have several thousand books and comics I have to part with over the next year. Not looking forward to it, so many good memories...
I have several thousand books and comics I have to part with over the next year. Not looking forward to it, so many good memories...
