Hello everybody, I'm Charlie and this is my first post here. I've always been into speakers and sound, and I play a lot of music as well as I am in my high school's (Garfield High School in Seattle) jazz band. I currently have a decent audio setup with a MCS 3125 receiver and four bose 901s, but the bose take up a lot of space and could be better sound quality wise, in my opinion. I have pretty sharp ears (you get that from playing jazz). I've done a lot of research on some good mini-monitors as I am going to college next year and would like to take some smaller speakers with me, and I've heard that Sapphires are the real deal. Just from reading this forum, I'm getting a really good vibe about this company. I don't think I could contact Amar Bose directly to tell him I liked speakers, but that's what people are doing here with Mike Dzurko, and I just think it is awesome. I recently turned 18 and may be able to get my parents to pay for some of the cost of these speakers, if I end up getting them.
At this point, I'm looking at getting the new sapphire xl2 speakers and a maestro subwoofer. It looks like it has been discontinued but there are still some available ones here (
http://www.audioc.com/speakers1/maestroxl/maestroxla.htm). I know the maestro isn't exactly portable, and it wouldn't be going to college with me, but it looked like too good of a deal to pass up, with only a 350 dollar difference currently between the 999 dollar force XL (only piano-black is in stock) and the 1350 maestro XL (satin black). I listen to all types of music, but being young, I occasionally listen to hip hop with huge amounts of bass and I think it would be awesome if I had a beast like the maestro putting it out.
Thanks for listening, are there any sapphire xl2s or maestros on the used market? Any other closeout deals or b-stock from the factory? I don't have a lot of money, being a high school student, but with the money I do have, I would love to spend it on audio.
Hopefully I can become a member of the aci family!!!
Charlie Phillips