A recurring feature curating interesting speakers for sale on Craigslist from around the Pacific Northwest. Links to Craigslist postings might go down at any time if they’re sold or pulled from sale. This week’s report is KEF heavy, with a dash of Sansui, and a few randoms thrown in. Happy listening!
Revel Performa3 M106 (Bookshelf Speakers)
$1,099 · Lynnwood (Seattle)
The Revel Performa3 M106 is a serious audiophile bookshelf from Harman’s flagship Revel line, featuring a 1″ ceramic dome tweeter and 6.5″ aluminum cone woofer tuned for reference-level accuracy. These would be the base of a solid desktop system, or even potentially as surrounds for a home theater.
Klipsch Quartet Speakers Oak Color
$700 · Tacoma (Seattle)
The Klipsch Quartet is a full-size Heritage-adjacent floor stander from the late 1980s, built on Klipsch’s classic horn-loaded philosophy for high efficiency and dynamic punch. At $700 in Tacoma these show normal cosmetic wear but are described as working well. I’d love to own a set of these myself.
Sonus Faber Venere 1.5 Speakers and Stands
$700 · Tacoma (Seattle)
Sonus Faber’s Venere 1.5 is a slim two-way standmount from the Italian maker’s mid-tier Venere line, prized for its warm, musical presentation and refined cabinet work. This Tacoma pair comes with matching stands in excellent condition, they’re often beat up or missing for some reason.
Magnepan Speakers
$75 · Vancouver (Portland)
The Magnepan SMGA is a quasi-ribbon planar speaker from the early 1990s, offering the wide, seamless soundstage that Magnepan is famous for at a size that fits most rooms. This Vancouver pair is sold as a project — one panel has the common delamination issue — but for a capable restorer the price is right. A local stereo consignment shop near me has 3 or 4 pairs of these at any given time and they sound pretty good (if not with a ton of bass) but need a really big power amplifier to drive them properly.
KEF Floorstanding Speakers (103/4)
$350 · Lynnwood (Seattle)
The KEF 103/4 is a respected floorstanding entry from KEF’s Reference Series of the mid-1980s, equipped with KEF’s B200 bass unit and T27 tweeter in a carefully tuned cabinet for smooth, wide-dispersion sound. This Lynnwood pair is a strong pickup for anyone wanting classic British hi-fi engineering at a fraction of its original price. I personally like KEF quite a bit and use their speakers if I do a resto-mod upgrade for a vintage radio because of the coaxial drivers. (You’re not doing that with a floorstasnding unit, though!)
KEF C40 Floorstanding Speakers
$150 · Lynnwood (Seattle)
More KEF, these KEF C40 are a compact two-way bookshelf from KEF’s C Series, delivering the brand’s characteristically accurate midrange in a package suited to smaller rooms or desktop listening. Priced at $150 in Lynnwood, these represent genuine KEF quality at an accessible entry-level price.
Dahlquist M905 Speakers
$150 · Mountlake Terrace (Seattle)
Dahlquist is a celebrated American speaker brand best known for the DQ-10 time-coherent design that defined audiophile listening in the 1970s; the M905 is a later bookshelf that carries that legacy of careful voicing and imaging. The seller in Mountlake Terrace is offering demos, which is always a good sign. This isn’t the big, flat, open-baffle one you usually see for sale but it looks interesting, especially with the metal? metalized? woofers.
Vintage Kef Speakers
$250 · Albany (Corvallis)
Lots of KEF today. The KEF Model 103/3 Reference is a sealed three-way loudspeaker from 1986 that originally retailed for $1,500 a pair — a genuinely serious box from KEF’s peak Reference period. This Albany pair is in unspecified condition but that’s a solid price at $250 and they look intact and set up to listen, so it’s probably worth it.
Vintage Sansui Stereo Collection – AU-717, TU-919, AU-317, Turntable, Speakers
$2,500 · Bonners ferry (Spokane)
This is a rare single-owner collection of vintage Sansui gear: two integrated amplifiers (AU-717 and AU-317), the highly regarded TU-919 tuner, an FR-D3 turntable, an SE-5 equalizer, and speakers — all from a builder that defined the “Golden Age” of Japanese hi-fi. At $2,500 for the lot from Bonners Ferry, it’s the kind of collection that rarely surfaces intact. (Everything is certainly going to need restored, but this is a whole collection. I’d try and snag it for $1750-2000, personally.)
Infinity SM-85 Studio Monitor Bookshelf Speakers
$275 · Bothell West (Seattle)
The Infinity SM-85 is a studio-monitor-grade bookshelf from the 1980s, built around Infinity’s Poly-Cell™ tweeter and featuring a notably high 98 dB sensitivity that makes it easy to drive. This Bothell West pair tests out well and at $275 is a sensible buy for anyone wanting analytical, high-efficiency monitoring. Overall, a good little speaker.
Micro Acoustics MA Pro-1 Speakers
$250 · Happy Valley (Portland)
Micro Acoustics was a short-lived but innovative American speaker company whose electret-based tweeter array drew a patent lawsuit from Bose — making these speakers a genuine piece of hi-fi history. The MA Pro-1 is the top of the Pro Series line, and this Happy Valley pair are described as very rare and hard to find. Really unusual looking.
Sansui SP L700 Speakers
$450 · Port Townsend (Olympic)
The Sansui SP-L700 (sold in Japan as the SP-G200) is considered one of Sansui’s finest speaker achievements, featuring furniture-quality cabinetry with a teak veneer and a four-driver array tuned for deep, musical bass. This Port Townsend pair is described as solidly built and in excellent shape — a genuinely uncommon find in the Pacific Northwest. If only it had the beautiful lattice grillework to go with it you find on the more recognizable Sansui models!
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