onthebeach Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 SOLD Item: VAF i93 MK2’s – 1 pair + Center speaker Location: Coffs Harbour Price: $6800 Item Condition: good Reason for selling: downsized Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: I bought these Vafs as original MK 1’s from Simon Wilde at the Vaf factory around 10 years ago. I had them custom made with cedar veneer on the sides and camphor veneer on the tops. The price was $15 938 for the 3 which was the same or at least very close to if I had them done in the Piano Palisander which was available at the time. These were one of the last of the original MK 1’s to roll out of the factory. I sent them back after a few months and had them upgraded to the MK2’s which cost around an extra $3000 for memory although I’m not 100% sure of the exact upgrade cost. They have been my main and faithful speakers in my child and smoke free living room/HT/2 channel listening room since then giving me many years of happy listening. I’ve used various valve amps over the years and a solid state amp all with success. I have now downsized so these speakers need to be re-homed. They are huge and very heavy. I have the original crates for shipping but a truck with a handheld lifting jack on wheels will be needed to get these babies into it. I’m guessing each speaker would weigh somewhere around the 35 - 40kg mark and add a bit more for the crates, which could later always be used as excellent coffins alternatives if required. 2 able bodied men at each end can lift and carry the speakers and I’ve carried them up and down my stairs more than once with the help of a fit mate or neighbor but those days are gone now for me. I’m getting too old for that. Photos are recent ones of them in a downstairs spare room. Sale includes 3 extra/spare mint tweeters worth a few hundred each. The tweeters in the speakers atm have little black dots on them. I’m unsure what these dots are or how long they have been there. My first thought was it was unlikely to be mildew as the 3 speakers for their life have been used in my upstairs living room which is well ventilated, on top of a hill with no history of damp or mildew issues. But we do get a lot of rain in Coffs and its sub-tropical so who knows. I bought the 3 mint tweeters to eventually replace them with if needed, but the sound was perfectly fine and seemingly unaffected so it just hasn't happened and quite possibly doesn't need to happen, but it is an option that providing the 3 spare tweeters provides for the next owner. It’s a relatively simple process of removing the front felt to access the tweeter screws from what I can gather. Simon Wilde from Vaf provided me with these tweeters and could certainly give instructions on changing them if needed. These Vafs come as a threesome and I won’t split them hence being listed in the HT classifieds here on SNA and not the 2 channel classifieds. Pick up only so freight to be organized from buyers end. 2% paypal Photos: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romekaff Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Guess again......these are 100kg each!! Over 250kg here folks! Good buy for someone. Glwts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggmeister Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Fantastic speakers, good luck with the sale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spammoj Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Man check out the size of that centre!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machina Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Absolute bargain . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Gale Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Beautiful if I had the money , and knew a competent furniture removalist who could pack them and install them for me. I think Kings used to do it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthebeach Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 Packing them isn't an issue as I can grab a mate and get them in their crates in the garage but moving them from there is the thing. Definitely a mover with a hand held jack on rollers. COPE is the company VAF themselves use and they have picked them up from my place to get them back to Adelaide in the past. They are pretty good I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Gale Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Well if I win lotto tonight I'll jump on them I've got a huge three way center myself nothing like it I reckon , mine is around 80 kilo's . Still as said I'd love them . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hi-Fi Whipped Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 just out of interest, what amps are recommended for matching with these speakers and what were you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthebeach Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 I reckon any amps up over 75w would be fine. They are around 89db so not too power hungry. I've used Audio Research Ref 110 valve amplification as well as a EL34 amp from Falls audio on the Gold Coast and my amps atm are a pair of lovely 807s also from Falls audio. All of those amps are around the 100w per channel mark and they all sounded terrific. I also use an Arcam 777 solid state amp for HT so thats been powering the Vafs for the last 10 years as well. Sounds great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantan Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) These tick every box I can think of, just superb in every way. IF, the stereo pair were available separately........ Edited February 24, 2020 by rantan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muriwai Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 4 hours ago, rantan said: These tick every box I can think of, just superb in every way. IF, the stereo pair were available separately........ Someone is looking for a Vaf centre speaker in the classifieds! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killa Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 I'm looking for a Vaf Signature Centre speaker. Have a set of Vaf i93 MKII and they are superb, love em. Drive them with a Devilalet Expert 120, with the i93 SAM (Speaker Active Matching) profile enabled. Great combination. Would like to add the Centre channel to this or an i66 MKI setup, so if anyone if after just the Stereo pair, please PM me. I'm located in Melbourne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthebeach Posted February 24, 2020 Author Share Posted February 24, 2020 I wasn't keen to split these as i presumed i would be stuck with the center but i would split them if the center went first. Ive just sent u a pm killa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurnItUp Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Hello, Can you please tell me the dimensions of the center channel speaker? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCRider Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) I have all three in my current HT set up in Australian Jarrah. This is definitely the speaker sale of the year . Edited February 25, 2020 by CCRider 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romekaff Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 On 24/02/2020 at 1:27 PM, DEANO23 said: Well if I win lotto tonight I'll jump on them I've got a huge three way center myself nothing like it I reckon , mine is around 80 kilo's . Still as said I'd love them . Never seen a 80kg centre speaker! What do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snook Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Interested. PM'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCRider Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, romekaff said: Never seen a 80kg centre speaker! What do you have? I have had VAF upgrade on my i93 centre and two uprights to the Mk111 . They now weigh in at 115kg each. Edited February 25, 2020 by CCRider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthebeach Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 I was at the Coffs Elton John show last night. I will get to the pms later today. Aplogies for delay in replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Gale Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, CCRider said: I have had VAF upgrade on my i93 centre and two uprights to the Mk111 . They now weigh in at 115kg each. I made it myself double walled 19mm mdf with 2 Audax woofers , 2 energy mids , fostex ribbon tweeters, front baffle is 3.5 cm . We didn't actually weigh it but it took 3 to lift it . Dimensions are 980 mm long 300 mm high by 460 mm Deep. 2nd order crossover , 100 watt Lpad on mids heavily braced so the t.v could fit on it. I'm modifying the front baffle to time align it better . Because of the superior Q specs on the Audax it's a sealed unit . I think it may weigh a lot more Edited February 25, 2020 by DEANO23 Forgot something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthebeach Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Deposit taken for the sale of the 3 together. Thanks everybody for your comments and interest. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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