Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse

one more: find something that someone wants where the speakers are from where you are. If could be a wedding cake, runaway bride, contraband, exotic bird, back of the speaker some member managed to saw off, whatever. They will probably pay you more than your trip would cost. 

@jayctoy speaking of R3. I think it was 2001 CES when Mark Levinson was promoting them the very first time. I got to meet him too. He was saying you don’t need a center speaker if you have good pair of speakers. They were very good I remember. Good times. Now, CES isn’t fun for me. 

The other thought is, if for some reason they don’t work for you, you could probably turn around and sell them for a nice little profit given what you’re paying for them. Just another probably obvious thought FWIW.  

That is a total of a 24 hour drive. Add the price of gas and a hotel room to the price of those 30 year old speakers. Do you really think they are worth it?  If you do then go for it!

It's an old speaker. You can likely do better but if you like the signature of the speaker you will be okay. 

If you are unsure you got a heavy casket on your hands.

You're going to need a good amount of clean power to drive them too. 

Good luck!