RA8 for sale

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RA8 for sale
« on: 28 Mar 2007, 03:02 am »
Just picked the shipping damaged pair of APEX II's from Al, can't wait to get them!

These are going to replace my current RAW RA8's.

These were the shipping damaged Walnut pair I bought from Al around March of 2006.

These are killer speakers and I really didn't think about replacing them till I saw the deal on the APEX II.

The price drop to $1500 pushed me over the edge. (the wife is gonna kill me!)

Asking $995obo + shipping (still have crates: 70" x 16" x 20" 150 lbs each) (+3% PayPal)

Local pickup in Chicagoland area (Plainfield) would be awesome

Give guys here a chance before Audiogon

« Last Edit: 28 Mar 2007, 10:53 am by machine »

Berndt

Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #1 on: 28 Mar 2007, 04:07 am »
NICE!
congrats!
sale should be a no brainer  8)

RAW

Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #2 on: 28 Mar 2007, 04:25 am »
These RA8 are Walnut not Maple .

machine

Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #3 on: 28 Mar 2007, 11:06 am »
See what happens when your in a hurry, and the wife is comming and you don't proofread the message before submitting it because you haven't told her yet...  Walnut becomes Maple....

These are a shipping damaged Walnut pair from around March of 2006 with the standard crossovers nothing added.

Damage is not very noticable, worst is scratch on face of one speaker that doesn't go down to MDF.  One of the dustcaps fell or was helped off by my 3 year old.  Another dustcap has a crack.  Both of these should be fixable, or get some replacement speakers for probably under $50.

Love these speakers, especially the ribbon.  Wouild not be looking at change except for the awesome deal on the APEX II.  Was sort of same deal with picking up the RA8s, great deal and awesome speakers!

Great chance for someone to give these RA8s a try at a great price.

Will try and get some pictures soon...


 

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Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #4 on: 28 Mar 2007, 02:24 pm »
 :duh: I just drove by on I55 last weekend.
Now I will have to think about making the 4 hr drive again :scratch:, I have some tube amps that would like to meet those speakers.

Lin 

machine

Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #5 on: 28 Mar 2007, 09:15 pm »
Lin,

Running the RA8's with a pair of DODD Gen III 102w Monos and these sound so good...

Have ans ONIX H34 EL34 based integrated (~40w/ch, also for sale :)) and it sounds great with them also.

Can't go wrong at the price...

machine

Re: RA8 NOT for sale
« Reply #6 on: 29 Mar 2007, 08:15 pm »
Decided to NOT sell these...moving these downstairs to my theater.

Picked up a single RA-8 from Al so I have 3 of these across the front driven by 3 Odyssey Stratos Extreme Mono SE's. 

Should be killer!

Thanks for looking!



Berndt

Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #7 on: 5 Apr 2007, 01:27 am »
super bummer regarding pulling the sale, I wanted to see a new RA8 owner appear!
I can't believe your good fortune.
3ch ra8 seems like a great room full of sound.
Bill

machine

Re: RA8 for sale
« Reply #8 on: 5 Apr 2007, 02:29 am »
Just couldn't part with them.

Now all I need to do is get some buyers for the stuff I'm selling to pay for them....

Getting rid of my existing Definitive Technologies setup - nothing wrong with them, but a little more geared towards home theater.

With the RA-8, my 2 channel listening will be much better, along with the movies.

Just love the ribbons...