These are made of metal and are suitable for smaller speakers.

I am asking $25 for the pair and do not have a way to ship these so a buyer in the Washington, DC area is preferred. Cash or paypal are accepted.

Please leave a comment or use the contact form if you have any questions.

The speaker is 8-12 years old and is in good working order. There are some scratches on the black end cap at one end but otherwise the speaker is in excellent condition.

I am selling it because it is too large for the space where the home theater is set up now.

The specs on the speaker from the manual are:

• Dimensions: 8 5/16″H x 21 1/2″W x 15″D
• Frequency Response: 22 Hz – 30 kHz
• Efficiency: 90 dB
• Impedance: 8 ohms
• Driver Complement: Two 17cm cast-basket bass-midrange drivers, a 25mm pure aluminum dome in D’Appolito Array.
• Recommended Amplification: 20 – 350 W

In addition to the speaker, I have the manual and original box.

A local buyer is preferred but I am willing to ship. Contact me for the cost of shipping to your location. You can audition the speaker at my residence or I can bring the speaker to yours. I am willing to drive within 3 hours of Washington, DC.

Cash or paypal accepted for in-person transactions. Paypal-only if the speaker must be shipped.

I am asking $220. Please leave a comment or use the site’s contact form to reach me.

The speaker has been sold. It is no longer available.

These are bipolar surrounds and are in working order. One speaker (the one on the right side of the photo) fell off the speaker stand and damaged the top plate and tore the fabric covering but still operates (so far as I can tell) without issue though the cosmetics have suffered.

The second photo shows the top of the second speaker where the glossy black end cap mounts. Three of the four posts broke when the speaker fell making the end cap mount somewhat precarious.

The specifications on the speakers from the manual are:

• height: 17.5″
• width: 10″
• depth: 6.5″
• Frequency Response: 38 Hz – 30 kHz
• Nominal impedance: 8 ohms
• Driver Complement: Four 14cm cast basket high resolution, high power, bass-midrange drivers with mineral filled polypropylene cones, butyl rubber surrounds and dust caps, and two 25mm ferrofluid damped moving coil pure aluminum dome tweeters.
• Efficiency: 90 dB
• Recommended amplification: 10-350 watts

I would prefer to sell them as a pair but because one speaker is cosmetically damaged, I am willing to split up the pair.

Each speaker has the original manual and box.

I am asking $175 for the pair. Alternatively, $150 for the unblemished speaker and $40 for the one with cosmetic damage.

I am willing to ship the speakers though a local buyer is preferred. Contact me for shipping costs if interested. I am willing to meet a buyer to audition the speakers within a three hour drive of Washington, DC or you may come to my residence.

You may leave a comment to contact me or send me an email via the contact form. If you have any questions or would like to set up an appointment to hear the speakers, please let me know.

I will accept cash or paypal for in-person transactions or paypal for one where the speakers must be shipped.

The speakers have been sold. They are no longer available.

The player has been sold. It is no longer available.

This is an Oppo DV-980H Universal DVD Player. It plays DVD’s, CD’s, Super Audio CD’s, and DVD-Audio discs. It upscales video to 1080p.

It’s a fantastic player and is in excellent condition. The only reason I’m selling it is that I bought the Oppo Bluray player so this one became superfluous.

It includes the player, remote, power cable, hdmi cable, analog a/v cables and manual. All are the pieces that shipped with the unit.

Asking $75. Please contact me if you have questions or are interested.

This pair of speakers was purchased new in 1987 or 1988 but is still in great shape. They have recently been verified to be operational and still sound great. I still have the original box though the box is probably not suitable for shipping and shipping would cost a fortune as the speakers are moderately heavy and the box is large. I am willing to meet a buyer within 3 hours of the Washington, DC area or you can pick the speakers here. Use the contact form on the site to reach me.

I am asking $325.

Well, to my surprise, HD-DVD threw in the towel much more quickly than I expected and bluray was the clear choice for high definition media, but which player to choose?

This, as it turned out, was a difficult decision, mostly because the bluray consortium has made life far more complicated for consumers than it should be. First, we have three different bluray profiles, 1.0, 1,1 and 2.0. When I started looking there only a few 1.1 players and no 2.0 players. It didn’t seem to make sense to buy a player that wouldn’t be able to take advantage of features on newer discs, so I waited. Again.

The first 2.0-capable player was the Sony Playstation 3. Sony has done a good job of keeping the PS3 up to date on Bluray. And reports from the field were that the PS3 was a very good player and faster at disc loading than any standalone player. There were limitations: only 2-channel analog audio, lack or infrared remote control and potentially loud fan noise. The former was not an issue for me since I’d be using HDMI connections. The lack of IR could be overcome with third party products though all are from tiny, little mom-and-pop shops currently. The reports of fan noise were all over the map and with no real objective data and the likelihood of a fair degree of unit-to-unit variation, I’d be taking my chances here.

There were some other potential advantages to the PS3. You get a game system. It has some media streaming capabilities (but sadly, not capable enough for what I’d want). None of these were enough to swing me over tot he PS3 camp. I kept looking.

The profile 2.0 players finally started to appear. Well, one did, the Panasonic BD50. It cost significantly more than a PS3, was somewhat slower at disc loading. It could bitstream advanced audio codecs which the PS3 can’t, but honestly, for bluray, the player ought to be doing the decoding since that’s the only way to handle secondary audio properly so the lack of bitstreaming on the ps3 wasn’t a disadvantage for me. However, if I was reading the manual correctly, the Panasonic player couldn’t decode 7.1 mixes and send them out as 7.1 LPCM, only as 5.1. Granted that there aren’t many 7.1 mixes, but this seemed like yet another player that didn’t manage to be fully capable.

So, rather than wait for Sony’s attempt at a 2.0 standalone player in the fall, I decided to take the plunge and try a PS3.

The fan is a bit louder than I’d like but it isn’t horrible. The unit sits on a component stand and has plenty of ventilation. It’s open on four sides and has 3-5 inches of space above the unit. For ventilation, it’s probably better than what many can manage. With the air conditioning not running and quiet movie dialog, I can hear the fan. It’s not awful, but it is definitely noticeable. With normal dialog levels or the a/c running, it’s not audible. I wish it were quieter but I can live with that.

I don’t really have much time for games, but who knows, perhaps I will give it a try. Been a long time since I’ve done any real gaming. Not that I was ever more than a casual gamer. Might be nice for parties.

So, this is the tale of how I went shopping for a bluray player and came back with a ps3. Of course, that process took more than a year and I finally gave up waiting for a standalone player that met my requirements. It was either buy a ps3 now or wait another three or more months to see if the next player managed to get it right.

Ultimately, if bluray wants to get out of the enthusiast market and into the mainstream, they need to get players down in price. They also need to reduce the complexity. Do we really need three lossless formats (pcm, Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD-MA)? All players should decode all formats. That’s the only way to properly implement profile 1.1 and higher requirements. Right now all the players fail to get it right and force you to bistream if you want all the channels. Of course, this disables any secondary audio. And flipping back and forth usually requires a trip out the setup menu.

Bluray had the chance to simplify the complexity of DVD but instead has made it worse. The PS3 does a remarkably good job of hiding that complexity and doing the right thing out of the box. With built in infrared remote control and quieter fans it would be perfect. As it is now, it’s not perfect but for me, it’s as close as any product gets. I was surprised that a game system has managed to be the most capable bluray player around but, at least for now, that seems to be the case.