Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers?
https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649767771-fritz-carbon-7-se-mk-2/?utm_source=featured_ad&utm_medium=web&utm_content=front&utm_campaign=front-featured-ad-click&utm_term=649767771 Never heard them but lots of love for Fritz products. |
@rfnoise7 " Just out of curiosity, did your “research and legwork” involve actually auditioning the speakers in your system?" OF COURSE I DID I bought them for $1300. I contacted all the raving online reviewers, many times, NOBODY responded. These were the web sites and dudes, quoted for great reviews on the LSA web site. Listened to them with a number of setups, they sounded awful, whichever way I tried. My PC speakers sounder better. I couldn't return them so I tried to sell them. They were full of scratches on the bottom, - how I received it, so I spent $150 with a furniture guy to fixt it. I then sold it for $800 7 weeks later plus shipping, so I lost $700 not including money I spent on advertising, gas, my time, etc. Then it would be closer to losing a $1000 on a pair of $1300 speakers. Did I mention I took them to 3 nearby audio stores and tried to trade them in and they said: dude, what's wrong with you, nobody knows these, nobody wants these, get out of my store. I spent 20+ hours trying to sell them including driving 4 hours to meet potential buyers, so it was my worst experience "buying and selling". Not that I bought them thinking I would sell them, I wanted to like them. I was told that $1300 is a huge discount, "they are really $4000 speakers" So... after my wife nearly kicked me out for throwing out $700 the window, I DO think I did a lot of legwork and research and suffering. |
