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But, I did find a pair of near mint M60's for $500 online! The dude purchased the EPIC60 set but finds the front too big so he never used them. Could be interesting!

Good Luck!

Way back when......

Well, when Infinity was known for speakers like their $20K "Reference Standard":



A guy on a work bulletin board listed some Infinity floorstanders for $800... but he had to sell them very quickly. I looked them up and they were sweet.... sold for something like $6000 new and they stood taller than me. He listed them as 3 years old, but in like-new condition. I decided that if they were as good as I hoped, I would just give the guy an even thousand since $800 seemed awfully low and he was probably selling them out of desperation for some financial emergency.

I call him, and it all sounds good. I set up a time to go to his place an hour away.... and he's not there. His wife is, though, and says he was "out" and must have forgotten the appointment. At the risk of sounding snooty, this was SO white-trash I kept hearing "Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What You Gonna Do? What You Gonna Do When They Come For You" in my head. The woman, pregnant, was in a way-oversized T Shirt, pregnant (yeah, she was SO pregnant it's worth mentioning again), with a toddler in her arms and a smoke hanging out of her mouth. Crap everywhere.... so you had to look down when you walked. Which was good, because I wanted to avert my glaze anyway. A Rottweiler alternated low growls with stopping to scratch himself.

So she takes me to the "den" to see the speakers, and these things were beat.... each had a foot broken off, the veneer was coming off in places, cones dented, etc. I asked the woman if she was sure this was the right pair, because they were described as "like new"? She assured me they were and asked if I wanted to hear them. By this time, though, my mind had already started to imagine the fleas biting my ankles and attaching themselves to my socks and shoes for me to take home. I declined, politely telling her they were WAY too big for my living room, and left.

It wasn't until I was a little ways into the ride home when I started to get pissed for him wasting my time by giving me a flat-out lie about their condition.

I think the guy was too embarrassed to meet me in person after the way he described them, so he left that up to his wife/girlfriend. And I decided that he probably was once a pretty successful drug dealer who had money for such things, but his life has been going downhill since.

LOL

That actaully put a smile on my face! I was still a little pissed off about the situation this morning...

thanks Mark!

Yeah, it's funny in hindsight. But at the time, I was psyched to get an awesome deal on a set of speakers...as you probably were as well.

Isn't the lyric "And if ya' let me cool you one time, you'll be my regular style" ? Or have I been hearing that one wrong for 30 years?

I think it's "stop".

yep. its "stop".

Mark, is that an active crossover at the bottom of the pic of the Infinity tower you posted?

I dunno. If I remember right, the IRS system was like $20K...meaning I never even heard one! Looks like it though!

And, to the rest of you: "Pfffffffftttt"! :p