Packing Really Big Speakers [message #3979] |
Mon, 11 December 2006 07:15 |
FredT
Messages: 704 Registered: May 2009
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I was among several Houston Audio Society members who were invited to a speaker packing party Sunday morning. The Acapella Campaniles we packed are headed to a buyer in California, soon to be replaced by the even bigger and heavier (880#/ea) Acapella Excaliburs. In the meantime our host will have to content himself listening only to that very musical octave between 16 and 32hz through the 21" Cabasse subwoofers. I offered to loan him a pair of the $45 Best Buy Insignia standmount speakers until his new ones are delivered, but he declined.
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Re: Packing Really Big Speakers [message #3983 is a reply to message #3980] |
Mon, 11 December 2006 16:24 |
FredT
Messages: 704 Registered: May 2009
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If they had been mine, lifting those 200# upper woofer sections from the top of each tower would have caused a heart attack, but everything went well. At least four of the people there are dealers of very high end equipment, including the local Acapella dealer, who know how to move heavy components without damaging them, and everybody else (except me) owns very heavy & obscenely expensive speakers. It's quite a system. The power conditioners are Isocleans, the sources are a Rockwell turntable and an Exemplar Audio modified Denon universal player, the preamp is an Einstein, the amps are Parasound Halo monoblocks, the new speakers will be Acapella Triolon Excaliburs, and the subwoofers are two Cabasse monsters with 21" drivers. Of course the cables alone cost more than my entire system. Poverty sucks!
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Re: I could use your experience Fred. BYOBG [message #3986 is a reply to message #3982] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 07:10 |
FredT
Messages: 704 Registered: May 2009
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I received a thank-you message from the owner: "You will be happy to know that the shipper picked up the speakers yesterday and that they are on the way to Sacramento. For future reference the total weight was 1385# and the cost of shipping them with insurance was about $1500." So I know I'm good for 1385#, but I don't know about 1450#:) Have you considered the fact that no speaker will ever sound good enough in your system after listening to the 1812's for a few months?
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Re: I could use your experience Fred. BYOBG [message #3987 is a reply to message #3986] |
Thu, 14 December 2006 19:40 |
Bill Epstein
Messages: 1088 Registered: May 2009 Location: Smoky Mts. USA
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No problem. Let's see, 2 JBL 2441's, $1000 I already have a pair of 2123's. Pair of 2442's, another grand. 2360 horns, $700 2405's, $600 crossover maybe $300?$4000 and a whopping big cabinet. No problem. But my little living room has been held hostage long enough.
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