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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.Originally Posted by Alex_UK
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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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Looks nice,can't ride at the moment though as I got knocked off my last bike last yearOne 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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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 soldI'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 hereI know I have.
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
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Exciting!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
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.
This is the pair I'm buying.
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Speakers: KEF Reference 3, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Arcam A75 integrated, Monitor Audio R852 MD speakers
A/V:
LG OLED65 G56LS, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL T9i sub.
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They're well tidy. I thought it might be the 1990s ones.
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I can't really remember anything that "got away", I've always usually ended up with the things that I wanted to purchase.
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They look awesome Steve, sure they will sound it, too, Kef are one of those brands that never makes a bad product.
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Measured performance is outstanding:
https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/in...nts&Itemid=153
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