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Tempting Craigslist purchase - "vintage" speakers - Austin Craigslist - JC Penny!

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If You Hear them, you'll Buy 'em!!--1980's MCS Home Stereo Speakers - $100
Price Reduced, Was $145, Now the 1st $100 Owns Them This is a Nice Pair of Vintage Speakers, Great Sound. each measures 12" x 13.5" x 24" tall. I have them powered up to demonstrate here. Presently, They're Still Available If Posted.
 

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A JC Penney speaker with time-aligned drivers is not something you see every day. $100 seems a bit high, though.
 

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I think the quality of sound will be about the quality of those pictures.

I might go $10 on the pair if I needed something non-critical for my garage or something similar. $100 is crazy.

Trust me, box speakers have come a long, long way since the late 1970's to early 1980's when these were made. These wouldn't have been quality speakers even in their day.
 
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I had something even worse as my starter pair in 1978. Dad took me to a "hi fi shop" out on a commercial strip with car repair shops and railroad tracks. They had "Omega" speakers which they sold to me for $24/month for 2 years. See attached. It's pretty obvious that these were just vehicles for selling loans.

When I was 15, I worked all summer at a tennis club, saved up $900 (1980, do the math), and got ADS L810's. Those were designed by Michael Kelly, who would later found Aerial Acoustics. I had them for quite some time, gave them to my brother later. Probably still around somewhere.
 

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They seem to sell for $150 to almost $300 with shipping on ebay.
 

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If You Hear them, you'll Buy 'em!!--1980's MCS Home Stereo Speakers - $100
Price Reduced, Was $145, Now the 1st $100 Owns Them This is a Nice Pair of Vintage Speakers, Great Sound. each measures 12" x 13.5" x 24" tall. I have them powered up to demonstrate here. Presently, They're Still Available If Posted.
It would be really interesting to test the accuracy of that FR curve.
 

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with umic rewing they often get ridicously nice responcecurves. modern "elements" dont play as nice. Also they are prob high response, so you get more than you see.
 

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If You Hear them, you'll Buy 'em!!--1980's MCS Home Stereo Speakers - $100
Price Reduced, Was $145, Now the 1st $100 Owns Them This is a Nice Pair of Vintage Speakers, Great Sound. each measures 12" x 13.5" x 24" tall. I have them powered up to demonstrate here. Presently, They're Still Available If Posted.

I thought that was Jacques Penne' the designer label!
 
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