e smitty spends more money on geniune retweets than his fak…

e smitty spends more money on geniune retweets than his fake studio gear. There were signs...

https://x.com/THEREALESMITTY/status/1760446024600989702?s=20

Acoustic Monitor speakers DB IV liquid cooled. Any good?

I saw these exact speakers at my local Goodwill for $29/pair

http://cgi.ebay.com/Acoustic-Monito...emZ130088839686QQcategoryZ47093QQcmdZViewItem

Should I go back and get them? Or are they crap? :scratch2:

namahealani
Active Member
Mar 18, 2007
#2
They're white van speakers, aren't they? I just googled them. Came up with this:

I was just approached (accosted?) by a couple of kids driving a
van that said they had some GREAT speakers to sell. They are overstocks, used by major recording studios and DJs or even hot, and they normally sell for $1000/pr, but they’ll let me have them for just $399. Am I getting ripped off? Yes, you most certainly are. The speakers these people sell are none of what they describe. They are never used in studios. There might be one or two DJs out there that use them because they can’t afford anything else. They are not overstocks, and in all likelihood, they are NOT HOT!. Are they good speakers? No, they’re, at best, no better than the big boom boxes you find in $400 rack systems in department stores. They are worth no more than what the kids paid for them ($100/pr). The speakers go under names like “Acoustic Monitor DB IV”, “Acoustic Linear,” “Pro-Poly,” “Audio Reference 4350″, “Omni Audio”, and so on. They all “feature” things like “liquid cooled 3″ tweeter”, poly-cone 12″ woofer, fantastic (but impossible) frequency response, 98 db/watt sensitivity, and so on. The brand names are remarkably similar to reputable firms, but different enough to delay law suits. These speaker are made by a couple of manufacturers with the intent of being sold exactly this way. They cost the kids in the van about US $100 a pair, and the kids are given minimal training about what kinds of stories to use, what parking lots are the most likely to generate sales (department store parking lots near colleges in September is a great time for these guys). Anything over the US $100 the kids paid is pure profit. Stay away, you’re getting ripped off. For more information on these speakers, see: http://bigsun.wbs.net/homepages/o/m/n/omniaudioscam/ http://www.frii.com/~rjn/audio/whitevan.htm
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bookasan
Appassionato circa audio
Mar 18, 2007
#3
namahealani said:
They're white van speakers, aren't they?

Yes! The original and probably most popular white vans.

JoZmo
Super Member
Mar 18, 2007
#4
Vintage White Van... move on.

gadget73
junk junkie Subscriber
Mar 18, 2007
#5
I seem to recall having a set of those in the house when I was young, but they were not white van, rather they were boring sedan purchases. Mom's bf's son worked at a gas station, some guy comes in and tells him he's getting a divorce, needs some cash, etc. Sold him those and some early CD player, this was about 1986 or so. I dont really remember much about them, just the liquid cooled thing. I was 5 so I can't really say if they sounded good or not.

calabashak
Not a replica, no mask
Mar 18, 2007
#6
Wait! Can't you see that they are "Digital Ready"? That means that they are....

...crap.
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RCherrington
New Member
Jan 22, 2022
#7
I know, I know, it's an old thread but....

A friend of mine in college had a pair of these. He seriously thought they were the best speakers in the world... serious audiophile stuff.

He actually told me how he bought them from a guy who was a serious HIFI nut in the mall parking lot.

I didn't have the heart to tell him. What are you going to do, he was happy.
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goodolpg
Just an old fart trying to help. Subscriber
Jan 23, 2022
#8
There are a couple AK'ers who really like them. Maybe they will be along shortly.
They may have missed this the first time.

Mumbles
Active Member
Feb 25, 2023
#9
At first I thought these might be Kabukis but doing a search here showed them as White Van. Is $100 a pair too much for them? After all they are liquid cooled and digital ready.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1657670588017008/

stereocuuple
Two Channel Only Subscriber
Feb 25, 2023
#10
Mumbles said:
At first I thought these might be Kabukis but doing a search here showed them as White Van. Is $100 a pair too much for them? After all they are liquid cooled and digital ready.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1657670588017008/

only $100.00 too much

goodolpg
Just an old fart trying to help. Subscriber
Feb 25, 2023
#11