Avalon speakers,redux

A bit confused, Shubertmaniac. I see three listings for Eidelons on Audiogon, two of which are demo sales and one appears to be the liquidation of an entire system. I located none on Audioweb. Where are you finding these Eidelons? Four Audiogon listings are for Radians and three for Ascents. I believe both products are discontinued; the Ascents, for sure, with improvements from Opus and Eidelon. The few people I personally know, once enamored with the Avalon sound, have difficulty parting ways.

I own eclipse and they are freakin old like 8 years or so and the only thing I have done was a few years ago replaced the drivers, other then that no problems at all with anything, dare I say a good value. I would like to upgrade to the opus but not too soon, I think I can get another 10 years out of these, hahahaha. I think you will find that avalon has a very high rate of return customers, as others have stated above once your hooked there is no looking back. As far as the Avalon's for sale now....buy them, they are great speakers but everyone needs change, hell I nearly traded someone the eclipses for a set of 3.5 maggies(oh soooo glad I did not do that). Cheers:-) Tim

Agree with Siddh, Skip. You don't see current Avalons on the block much; older series such as Radians and Ascents, yes, and even then, not in the numbers you see in other brands. We've had our Arcuses for three years and wouldn't let go of them, except for the Eidolons--maybe the Opus. However, we're talking some very serious money here, and since we're building a listening room and are trying to budget for a c-j 16LS, the Eidolons will always be our favorite audio fantasy.