TDL Compact Monitors


Hello everyone,
I have recently picked up a new pair of Klipsch Heresy's and I am simply in love with them.
They replaced my beautiful pair of TDL Compact monitors I bough new many moons ago. I worked in a wonderful audio shop and we sold TDL, Mission, Paradigm, Tannoy just to name a few. 
I was wondering if they would be worth putting the TDL's up for sale. They are nearly perfect with original box and papers. I sort of hate to part with them, but they are boxed away and just hate the thought of them not being used as intended. 
Any suggestions would be most welcome. 
Thank you
doyle3433

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doyle3433,
I think you'd regret it too. you'd be selling a rare bit of history and not getting much for it.
As far as my TDL's were concerned, I sold the first pair of Monitors in a flurry of youthful indecision. In other words, I was trying out a lot of other things. In about 2006, I found another pair TDL Monitors here on Audiogon, and traveled for 5 hours to pick them up. I got them home, and realized quickly that they could not stand up (to my ears) to the preowned Klipsch Epic CF-4s that I had recently purchased. 
I would have been great to keep both, but you need a big house for that.
The large monitors were the only speakers that I ever owned that could  reach into subwoofer territory. I recall that when I had owned them for a while in the mid 80's, I played an Enya disc. Her music contains some synthesizer sounds, and I had played this disc many times on my previous speakers. Suddenly, a low, atmospheric note literally shook the room, and everyone stopped talking and looked at each other. It was subsonic! They had a large transmission line driven by an elliptical KEF B139 woofer. They were very good speakers in most other ways too.  
I bought the huge TDL Monitors...twice! Great brand, and you seldom see any of them for sale. If it was me, I would keep them because I can't imagine that you will get much for them. Of course you could decide what the lowest price that you would accept is, and then pull the ad if you don't get it.