For sale and nearly mint as prototypes go. Have to give them an 8 I guess for one small scratch at the peak of one speaker seen in photos. Otherwise in no scratch condition elsewhere.
As prototypes they have some different drivers than now offered in the standard units. NO, these won't be reworked into production versions. And the liability extends to shipping damages only and no production-level warranty is offered but knowing Jim if you have a problem down the road he'll do what he can to remedy the situation at minimal cost.
Grills included (magnetic), silver spikes, no bi-wire capability on these.
The drivers in this pair are:
midrange is a 6.5" PHL
tweeter is a Morel dome tweeter MD33
woofer is a Lambda TD12H
How do they sound? Well, of course, with all of Jim's speakers these sound like crap. So, buyer beware! (Did you spill your beer there?)
Open, of course, sound for an open baffle speaker. Dang good bass given the high efficiency. The bass is tight and you can emphasize it if you push them into the corners a little, but watch the top end reflections when you do this if you push them too close to the rear wall.
The dome tweeter is all-encompassing and extremely efficient so it easily does its thing. It gives up nothing to a ribbon and in my experience produces more top end than you can imagine.
Midrange is super duper and dead on. Has good guttural feel on saxophone and string bass.
With the high efficiency of these speakers I found them to be very dependent on cabling and electronics. You can really influence the sound by switching from copper to silver or backwards and tubes really match well with these and are highly recommended (by me).
Shipping will be through the factory and at a better rate than I could offer. The lovely Mary will assist!
Price is $2800. List on standard pair is in the $4k area.
Some photos of details here and more in my galleries:
The scratchy:
