Procrastination is the thief of bargains (or: it wasn't meant to be)

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Originally Posted by Alex_UK

I bet that's a record, Barry - unless anyone has used an item of kit for longer than that...? Or what's your longest serving item?

(I've had my 401 for 40 years this year, but as it hasn't been in constant use I wouldn't count it.)

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I should have added they were used and were for sale in a second hand goods shop. To make the decision whether to buy or not pressing, the shop were only asking £80 for the pair. Might seem nothing nowadays, but then it was a lot of money for me.

My 401 back in 71 was something like £13 for a used one, it's sounds ridiculous today but I had just started work on £5 a week so it was 2.5 weeks wages and I just could not stretch to that sort of money back then and had to wait another 25 years before I could afford it.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

One here James, just in time for summer :)

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/bike-de...ation=at_bikes

and not a million miles from you.

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Looks nice,can't ride at the moment though as I got knocked off my last bike last year

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I've been watching a nice pair of KEF Reference 3s on Ebay for some weeks, should I or shouldn't I, and this morning I decided to go for it. And guess what? Yep, gone...

Anybody else missed the boat on something through dithering? Or even regretted an impulse buy? Probably everyone here :doh: I know I have.

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Nice surprise this morning - turns out the bloke selling the KEFs has been out of the country on holiday, and stopped the listing so that he wouldn't be getting enquiries while away. So not sold :)

Now they can be couriered, but I'd rather see/hear before buying, so that's me driving down to Colchester on Monday. Road trip!

Seller assures me that when boxed these speakers will not fit in the car no way. So the van it is then. Still, with its new wheels and tyres it looks and drives proper. Just need to make up a picnic to break up the journey :)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Nice surprise this morning - turns out the bloke selling the KEFs has been out of the country on holiday, and stopped the listing so that he wouldn't be getting enquiries while away. So not sold :)

Now they can be couriered, but I'd rather see/hear before buying, so that's me driving down to Colchester on Monday. Road trip!

Seller assures me that when boxed these speakers will not fit in the car no way. So the van it is then. Still, with its new wheels and tyres it looks and drives proper. Just need to make up a picnic to break up the journey :)

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Exciting!

Which Reference 3 are they I guess not the more recent one?

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Originally Posted by Macca

Exciting!

Which Reference 3 are they I guess not the more recent one?

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No. Nice though they are, they're just out of my price range. By another £3k. These are called "Foundry Edition", which are the same as the regular ones, but come in either gloss white/blue Uni-Q driver, or gloss black/copper Uni-Q.

https://134494578.cdn6.editmysite.co...ptimize=medium

This is the pair I'm buying.

They're well tidy. I thought it might be the 1990s ones.

I can't really remember anything that "got away", I've always usually ended up with the things that I wanted to purchase.

They look awesome Steve, sure they will sound it, too, Kef are one of those brands that never makes a bad product.

Measured performance is outstanding:

https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/in...nts&Itemid=153