XOtago Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics-photography/Home-audio/Speakers-and-stands/Floor-speakers/auction-218187684.htm Recession Bah! what recession:eek::eek::eek: Anyone care to start a bidding war? Cough cough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Davey Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 polished floors? hope the room they were in had some treatment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogger Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Check the prospective buyer's feedback. Acne cream, lollies, and bits and bobs. Teenage joke in process is my bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristar71 Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 I saw this and thought WTF.... bidding for speakers like this, online, ?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopeman Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Why the bidder don't call the vendor and get some discount? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikefish Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Yes that's all well and good, but what strikes me is: 8.5" aluminum woofers from Norway(x2) Got to be Seas, Prestige by the looks 7" carbon Kevlar-cellulose Aerogel midrange driver from France. Definitely Audax, I have 4 of this driver. 1.5" silk dual concentric ring tweeter from Denmark. Scanspeak or Viva - tymphany either way 1" rear firing ambience mid/tweeter with fabric dome and transmission-line loading from Denmark. Tymphany again All drivers use our proprietary Advanced Motor System with low distortion design.They did? Wow. Yes I do enjoy naming the drivers in speaker systems. It gives a DIYer some perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarond1553552714 Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 I see the bid has been removed now. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the seller had refused to remove it, after all you must confirm your bid to be a legally binding act... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quentin Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 I think the seller knows very well that there would be very little if any, where people would pay for such speakers without first auditing. I have no proof, but, is the seller paying anything for listing his speakers? Or is he using trademe as a form of free advertising? If he is using it as a free rider, trademe has a flaw in the system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Parmenter, like many (non-hi-fi) retailers, use TradeMe as a form of very cheap advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie1553552694 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 quentin;91836 wrote: I think the seller knows very well that there would be very little if any, where people would pay for such speakers without first auditing. I have no proof, but, is the seller paying anything for listing his speakers? Or is he using trademe as a form of free advertising? If he is using it as a free rider, trademe has a flaw in the system I think we all helped Sam Morgan become a very rich man... if the speakers sell, then there is nice commission. No sale, no commission. Seems fair to me. Free advertising seems to be a fair byproduct of the process, but it's not without the risk of damaging the value of the brands advertised... All commercial decisions that Trademe and sellers like Mr Parmenter have to consider. Don't sweat the small stuff. I don't think there's a great swindle occurring Quentin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegaspeedy Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Those speaker look bloody horny regardless. Don't know about the price they command (or any other brand asking SILLY money come to think of it!) But they would look nice in my living room. Most I would pay for those would be around the $10-$12K mark. Any more than that just doesn't seem right. It's not as though they took 800hours to build at $35/hour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig f Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Pikefish;91823 wrote: Yes that's all well and good, but what strikes me is: . . . Yes I do enjoy naming the drivers in speaker systems. It gives a DIYer some perspective. The reality though is that getting those drivers is only one part of the equation. I'd be interested how much it would cost to get them, work out a crossover to sound like the speakers in question, then tool up so that you can produce a quantity of them rather than one pair now and then. Cheers, Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie1553552694 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Pikefish;91823 wrote: Yes that's all well and good, but what strikes me is: 8.5" aluminum woofers from Norway(x2) Got to be Seas, Prestige by the looks 7" carbon Kevlar-cellulose Aerogel midrange driver from France. Definitely Audax, I have 4 of this driver. 1.5" silk dual concentric ring tweeter from Denmark. Scanspeak or Viva - tymphany either way 1" rear firing ambience mid/tweeter with fabric dome and transmission-line loading from Denmark. Tymphany again All drivers use our proprietary Advanced Motor System with low distortion design. They did? Wow. Yes I do enjoy naming the drivers in speaker systems. It gives a DIYer some perspective. Trainspotting anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimoke Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Ernie;91864 wrote: Don't sweat the small stuff. I don't think there's a great swindle occurring Quentin. No swindle for sure - but I do take issue with trade me sellers that put up an auction while still selling the product privately (without stating that in the auction) - which is something this seller apears to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triguy Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 omegaspeedy;91879 wrote: Most I would pay for those would be around the $10-$12K mark. Any more than that just doesn't seem right. Have you heard these? I hope so because if not your telling us that you decide how much a speaker is worth by its looks. Hmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie1553552694 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 minimoke;91919 wrote: No swindle for sure - but I do take issue with trade me sellers that put up an auction while still selling the product privately (without stating that in the auction) - which is something this seller apears to do. Fair enough. It's up to you how you like to do business with someone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Y Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 minimoke;91919 wrote: No swindle for sure - but I do take issue with trade me sellers that put up an auction while still selling the product privately (without stating that in the auction) - which is something this seller apears to do. OTOH, when a seller makes this clear, it is sometimes interpreted as 'pressure selling'. In this case however it's reasonably obvious. Re. lspkr retail prices.... spkrs are probably the most difficult hifi item to design & achieve a good product result IMO... as anyone who has tried to design & build one will know. Certainly, R&D/prototyping would be huge cost factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilNZ Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 triguy;91920 wrote: Have you heard these? I hope so because if not your telling us that you decide how much a speaker is worth by its looks. Hmmmm. I have heard them... they are definitely worth the asking price! I considered buying some of the earlier version a few years ago. If everything was sold at the 'cost' of its parts, there would be no money merry go round at all... and then what would happen? a very naive view to assume that because it is more than you want to pay it can't be any good, or is a rip off or whatever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikefish Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 Craig F;91905 wrote: The reality though is that getting those drivers is only one part of the equation. I'd be interested how much it would cost to get them, work out a crossover to sound like the speakers in question, then tool up so that you can produce a quantity of them rather than one pair now and then. Cheers, Craig. You could nearly clone them, buy the standard drivers for a 2-3 grand, cloning the crossover too would probably cost as much, and it'll need to be adjusted since the motors aren't standard, but who here would want to buy these and chop them up in the hopes of making something worse? The real difference with these speakers it seems is the additional speaker that apparently cancels the effects of uneven microphone responses, and has tricky processing to drive it I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triguy Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 neil;91938 wrote: I have heard them... they are definitely worth the asking price! I considered buying some of the earlier version a few years ago. If everything was sold at the 'cost' of its parts, there would be no money merry go round at all... and then what would happen? a very naive view to assume that because it is more than you want to pay it can't be any good, or is a rip off or whatever... Agreed!! Although I prefered the smaller JR version. Was going to get a pair for myself before they stopped building them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omegaspeedy Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 triguy;91920 wrote: Have you heard these? I hope so because if not your telling us that you decide how much a speaker is worth by its looks. Hmmmm. Haven't heard them but they look like 12k speakers to my pocket. Anyway, any more than 12K would be a waist on my engineers ears:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon1553552729 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 I understand the list price is US$14K... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig f Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 omegaspeedy;92013 wrote: Haven't heard them but they look like 12k speakers to my pocket. I'm interested in what a $20k or $50k speaker would look like? Is it to do with the number of drivers, the height of the speakers, the room they're photographed in? Cheers, Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frequentflyer1553552672 Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 AudioEnz;91837 wrote: Parmenter, like many (non-hi-fi) retailers, use TradeMe as a form of very cheap advertising. Michael Why do you class him as a non-hi-fi retailer ? Who do you class as hi-fi retailers ? I can name at least 5 people who contribute to the audio industry who sell on TM some of who are on this forum. Cheers FF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2009 Share Posted May 20, 2009 frequentflyer;92051 wrote: Why do you class him as a non-hi-fi retailer ? I haven't classed him as a non-hi-fi retailer. Parmenter uses TM as a very cheap advertising venue. Many non-hi-fi retailers use TM as a very cheap advertising venue. Therefore Parmenter, like many non-hi-fi retailers, uses TM as a very cheap advertising venue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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