[Triode Pete]

Posting for an audiophile friend of mine located on Long Island, NY... contact info at bottom... Thanks!

Apogee Calipers For Sale

I recently picked up and refurbished a pair of Apogee Calipers. The sound on these is glorious and the only reason I am putting them up for sale is because I have the opportunity to step up to a pair of Duetta Signatures and I'm taking it.







The panels were in good shape so it was worth the effort to restore them. I revamped the crossover with new boutique parts (ERSE air-core inductors, Auricap and Sonicap capacitors, refoamed the panels) and refinished the scratchy and banged up cabinets with some wood filler, a lot of sanding and some nice metallic grey paint (ala Wilsons).

If you haven't heard an Apogee before then here are some comments comparing it to conventional cone driver loudspeakers:
- more transparent but still not forward sounding, that forwardness or over etched sound and discontinuity with the rest of the speaker kept me away from ribbon tweeters in the past, but that's not the case with these at all
- more dimentional - side to side and front to back
- a very nice focus point in the middle for sounstaging and imaging, almost like there is a center speaker
- just about as much dynamic pop, which I never heard from a panel before vs a cone speaker
- more "of a kind" or "continuous" meaning top to bottom wholeness - no sense of a crossover point or of a different sound between tweeter and woofer - it is all true ribbon
- they take power, and more power, and more power to drive - high current amplifiers only since they are 3ohm speakers and about 86db inefficient. But with a decent 100-200 watt amp able to handle this load they sing like nothing else.

These now look and sound wonderful and I am wondering if I am making the right decision to purchase the bigger model. Please contact me directly if you are interested because there are several ways we can go about this sale. These are 20 (25?) year old speakers so I've rated them at about 6/10. Local pick up from 11762 only - I will not ship them.

Thanks,
Bob
ptmconsulting@verizon.net

[neekomax]

Didn't see a price... 

[sts9fan]

Per the posting guidelines you are required to list a price.

[Triode Pete]

Speakers are no longer for sale since Bob is not purchasing the larger Apogee model...

[ptmconsulting]

Sorry - took me a while to get approved to post here. The deal upstream of me fell through, so I will not be getting the larger Duetta Signatures and will keep my Calipers until something better comes along (doubtful - these are really great sounding speakers at any price).

Thanks for looking.

[wisnon]

As a reference, what was your intended asking price?

[ptmconsulting]

$1100 including the full refurb and crossover mods.
$700 if you didn't want the $450 worth of Auricaps and Sonicaps in there (since I could have used them on the Duetta's I was expecting to purchase).

[wisnon]

$1100 including the full refurb and crossover mods.
$700 if you didn't want the $450 worth of Auricaps and Sonicaps in there (since I could have used them on the Duetta's I was expecting to purchase).

OK

By no means outlandish.

[ptmconsulting]

Not at all, and I would challenge you to get anything even approaching the quality of the music coming out of them for less than $10,000.

I know Apogee had issues with patents and customer service and production quality. They folded the company before audio equipment prices went through the roof. Otherwise they could have raised their selling price accordingly and improved on their corporate failure points. Had they done that they just may have overshadowed Magnepan's in the marketplace (they do sound far better than Maggies's IMO).

[wisnon]

I am trying to do that with this speaker setup for far less than $10k , new runs for about $7.5K and used as I bought for about $2.6K.

http://www.stereophile.com/content/oskar-heil-wall-sound-speaker-system