waxman
10-17-2004, 09:59 PM
I’m selling my Polk SDA SRS 2.3 TL’s and the accompanying Carver TFM-35 amp that’s powering them. I don’t have to sell but they aren’t getting used anymore and my significant other is getting tired of looking at them so to appease the powers that be I’m posting them to the group. No bites here and up on ebay they’ll go to see if someone wants a pair of 2.3TL’s, and if not I get to keep them.
Package deal, $1400.
I want to find a local buyer in/around Austin, Texas- crating and shipping these is just too much effort. I can drive an hour or so towards Houston/Dallas/San Antonio with them in the pickup but then it will be impossible for me to demo the speakers so I strongly suggest you come to my house in Austin.
History:
I bought the 2.3 TL’s a little over a year ago from the original owner here in Austin who bought them on January 30th of 1990 for $2155.00. They had been powered by a proton amp their entire life which I replaced with the higher powered carver courtesy of a trade with Wardsweb from the group. The prior 2.3 TL owner was/is extremely anal and the speakers are in great shape. He only sold the speakers to me because he bought an RV and sold his house and didn’t have room in his land-yacht. The only blemishes on the speakers are on the bottom of the oak coverings on the bottom surface of the speakers- they got there because of the dolly being used to move them, and the blemishes are very small but in the interest of full disclosure I’ve tried to take a picture of them. It’s also dusty underneath too so that’s some of what you see in some of the pics. I’ve also got two cats (de-clawed!) so there are a few stray cat hairs in the grille fabric. Other than that, I believe the speakers are in excellent shape. No known speaker issues to my admittedly unrefined ears, although again in the interest of full disclosure I think the former owner replaced a SL3000 very early on.
References:
Besides wardsweb my references whom I've done business with on the forum are durokusai (Mark) and TheGrayGhost. On ebay my alias is Waxman, feedback of 137 at 99% positive.
Reference Materials Included:
I’ve got 6 accompanying Polk Audio documents- the 17 page instruction manual, the 12 page SDA speaker placement guidelines, a catalog discussing Matthew Polk’s dedication to quality (21 pages) that covers the product lines of that time, Technical Information Issue 1 November 1998 from Matt Polk and the Design/Engineering team for the SDA SRS 2.3s (3 pages), a doc called Polks SDA Speakers- Designed in Stereo written by Matthew Polk for Audio in June of 1984 which is 9 pages of trigonometry and differential equations used to calculate the SDA effect, and lastly a doc called ‘the polk speaker’ SL 3000 dome tweeter, Issue 2 September of 1989 which is 4 pages of technical info on the SL3000.
I’ve got 4 magazine reviews/ads from the times, a Nov 1989 Stereo Review 4 page add of the SDA SRS’s, a special test report for Stereo Review November 1985 for the Polk SDA-SRS(4 pages), A review of the 2.3 speaker system in Stereo Review November 1988 (6 pages), and finally a 6 page review from High Performance Review in December of 1988 on the SDA SRS 2.3 system that looks like it may have been distributed by Polk with the actual speakers. Did I tell you the prior owner was anal? ;)
I’ve got the Carver TFM-35 service manual as well- it’s 16 pages not counting the many blueprints/electrical traces.
Pics in the link below.
If interested use polks messenger and we'll go from there. Thanks!
Waxman
lots of pictures of the speakers and amp here (http://home.austin.rr.com/cwr/polks/)
Package deal, $1400.
I want to find a local buyer in/around Austin, Texas- crating and shipping these is just too much effort. I can drive an hour or so towards Houston/Dallas/San Antonio with them in the pickup but then it will be impossible for me to demo the speakers so I strongly suggest you come to my house in Austin.
History:
I bought the 2.3 TL’s a little over a year ago from the original owner here in Austin who bought them on January 30th of 1990 for $2155.00. They had been powered by a proton amp their entire life which I replaced with the higher powered carver courtesy of a trade with Wardsweb from the group. The prior 2.3 TL owner was/is extremely anal and the speakers are in great shape. He only sold the speakers to me because he bought an RV and sold his house and didn’t have room in his land-yacht. The only blemishes on the speakers are on the bottom of the oak coverings on the bottom surface of the speakers- they got there because of the dolly being used to move them, and the blemishes are very small but in the interest of full disclosure I’ve tried to take a picture of them. It’s also dusty underneath too so that’s some of what you see in some of the pics. I’ve also got two cats (de-clawed!) so there are a few stray cat hairs in the grille fabric. Other than that, I believe the speakers are in excellent shape. No known speaker issues to my admittedly unrefined ears, although again in the interest of full disclosure I think the former owner replaced a SL3000 very early on.
References:
Besides wardsweb my references whom I've done business with on the forum are durokusai (Mark) and TheGrayGhost. On ebay my alias is Waxman, feedback of 137 at 99% positive.
Reference Materials Included:
I’ve got 6 accompanying Polk Audio documents- the 17 page instruction manual, the 12 page SDA speaker placement guidelines, a catalog discussing Matthew Polk’s dedication to quality (21 pages) that covers the product lines of that time, Technical Information Issue 1 November 1998 from Matt Polk and the Design/Engineering team for the SDA SRS 2.3s (3 pages), a doc called Polks SDA Speakers- Designed in Stereo written by Matthew Polk for Audio in June of 1984 which is 9 pages of trigonometry and differential equations used to calculate the SDA effect, and lastly a doc called ‘the polk speaker’ SL 3000 dome tweeter, Issue 2 September of 1989 which is 4 pages of technical info on the SL3000.
I’ve got 4 magazine reviews/ads from the times, a Nov 1989 Stereo Review 4 page add of the SDA SRS’s, a special test report for Stereo Review November 1985 for the Polk SDA-SRS(4 pages), A review of the 2.3 speaker system in Stereo Review November 1988 (6 pages), and finally a 6 page review from High Performance Review in December of 1988 on the SDA SRS 2.3 system that looks like it may have been distributed by Polk with the actual speakers. Did I tell you the prior owner was anal? ;)
I’ve got the Carver TFM-35 service manual as well- it’s 16 pages not counting the many blueprints/electrical traces.
Pics in the link below.
If interested use polks messenger and we'll go from there. Thanks!
Waxman
lots of pictures of the speakers and amp here (http://home.austin.rr.com/cwr/polks/)