Long term update!

Sorry for the late update guys and gals! With my daughter being born and us generally getting busier I have really let this blog slide. There's a bunch to cover so I'll start with some updates!

Accurian 8" powered subwoofer(s). I picked up one at the local goodwill probably 18 months ago and it just sat in my garage forever. I finally decided to use it and installed it in my bedroom alongside my PSB T65 full tower speakers. I have no specs on it and  honestly there are none that I can find on google. No reviews, specs, nothing. It added a decent amount of bass but nothing earth shattering. I suspect it came with a cheap 5.1 setup and it got separated when it went to goodwill. It was probably $5 if that. I couldn't go super loud since it's in my bedroom and my wife always complains about how loud the TV is at night. Fast forward a few months (almost 2 years apart from the first one) and while on vacation in Cambridge Ohio I decided to stop by the local goodwill while waiting on the girls to get their hair done. Nothing was great and we were about to walk out with nothing more than a $0.29 toy for Kaytelyn when I saw them carry out a very familiar box. For $2.99 I got a second Accurian 8".... 900+ miles away. What are the odds? I'll probably sell the pair for $100, they're pretty decent stacked and turned up. 

The holy grail of my growing up. Polk LSi 25 loudspeakers. The highest speaker of it's time, in a totally different class than the rest of Polk Audio speakers. The original price was $2799/pair. I would have never had the cash to do that. I had resigned myself to never owning a pair and moved on to the usual hunting for cheaper alternatives. One late night as I was perusing the local Craigslist, a pair of these came up for $900. Not bad actually, but way more than I am willing to allow myself to spend on a single pair of speakers right now. I figure, hey...why not check out the Polk forums. I hadn't been on in months and thought to check it anyways. I hopped on and the identical pair was for sale in their classifieds for $475! I messaged him immediately and told him I'd take them if available. 12 hours later I paypalled him and they were mine, undercutting some other bidder who was dragging his feet (thanks for the payment Nolan). We went on vacation for almost two weeks and I went to pick them up in Chickasha.

After building some custom jumpers out of some Clearance AudioQuest cabling I fired them up. A.Ma.ZING....... Wow. These will not be resold so no value/ranking on them. But the value I give ***** five stars. Funny, as soon as I purchased these a 2nd pair was offered to the guy who got mad at me for buying them from under him. I told the seller I'd take second dibs as kind of a joke. Two days later he messaged me saying he was also in OKC and if I was local... they're mine when they came up for sale later this year. Might have two pairs soon.... and I may be done for a very long time in terms of searching. Now to find an LSi Center....

Polk E10 speakers. Got them for $5... not bad little bookshelves. Haven't given them the full testing yet.

Probably sell them for $40. Value four stars, resale three stars.

Boston Acoustics VR975 speakers and center. Talked down the seller from $150 to $100 for the set. They just moved in from out of town and the new house had no place for them. The wife really seemed eager to let them go, and the husband begrudgingly helped load them into my car. I hope I'm never in the position that my wife frowny faces me into selling my audio gear. I already took the initiative once when we had a smaller house to sell it all, it won't happen again. They sound great and have awesome power. They weigh as much as the Polks above. These were the best speakers I could think about when I was in high school. Something like $1600 a pair retail in 1999, with the center being $599. The caps need some glue, but are otherwise in amazing shape for being 16 years old. 4 more years and they're considered vintage. These sell for $700-1000 a set still, being amazing and all.

Value five stars.

Resale five stars.

PSB T65 speakers.

I got these in a trade with someone I call "Steve the Speaker Guy". He got me into vintage speakers and we trade gear on and off. I usually give him a lot more gear for one or two pieces of what I consider more desirable gear. Probably worth $600 or so, they're terrific sounding speakers. Resale is difficult as no one knows what they are.... damn Canadian speakers. These currently reside in my bedroom and at full blast will probably destroy some of my wife's fine linens. They're massive, over 20" deep and weighing over 70lbs each. They're definitely for sale.... because some new speakers are coming in soon.

Value three stars (since I traded and had to trade a lot).

Resale two stars (been listed for a while)