Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse

Are you being honest in the title of this thread?  Don't let the nattering nabobs of negativism deter you.

Btw, I drove18 hours to get my Spendor 9/1s.  A similar vintage loudspeaker.

he wants to be talked out. Maybe he needs a real man to man talk. Like my mother used to say: "Are you nuts? Children in African are starving!"

Yeah for $700 it’s hard to see going wrong.  From John Atkinson’s review they lend themselves to brightness quite readily so hopefully you have partnering equipment that won’t trigger their brightness, but their imaging/sounstage abilities appear to be sublime — not surprising as that’s an Avalon house strength.  Best of luck!

If you buy them you will go blind, and people will talk.

DeKay

Hey @celo, if you're still pondering this, this may help you.  I once drove from L.A. to Albuquerque (11 hours) to get a used pair of Genesis speakers at a 90% discount, they were about 12 or 13 years old, unseen, unheard.   That was back in 2007.  I keep saying I'm going to get rid of them, but I still have them.   Go for it, man!