DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 9 Stunning Speakers, Excellent Conditon, Like New

These are AMAZING speakers. Paired with the right amp and source
components, the DeVore Fidelty Nines will send you to to sonic heaven,
instantly!

These are in excellent condition, second owner. The
previous owner and I are both moving higher up in the DeVore line. (He’s
already done that, and he’s happy as a pig in shit.) I can’t wait!
Anyway, no dings, scratches or scuffs in the finish. Still have the
original shipping cartons, detachable grills, etc.

But the
important thing is the sound. Here is an excerpt from an interesting
review in JazzTimes magazine, actually written by the previous owner of
this pair:

"DeVore speakers are renowned for their unflinching,
but relaxed accuracy to the music. Nothing added, nothing subtracted, no
neon lights screaming, 'Listen to me! I’m a wonderful speaker. Listen
to my HIGHSSSSSSSS and my—burp!—lows.'

"I have often used the word
purity of sound when discussing DeVore and that is what The Nines
offer—music in its most pure, most unadulterated, most true-to-life form
with no sign of strain or overemphasis anywhere in the audible
spectrum. Velvety and seductive without being soft or muted, big and
authoritative without being irritating like Popeye’s Bluto, or like
Popeye himself.

"When music plays through these speakers, you pay attention, the music grabs you by the cojones and won’t let go…and you like it!

" 'Do it to me!' you scream over the Dolphy LP. Oh! the pleasure seems as though it should be a mortal sin.

"For
the Nines, DeVore built on the design of the Super 8s with the
intention of invoking some of the magic of his flagship $16,000
Silverbacks for use in smaller rooms. As it was, the Super 8s already
used their big brother’s midrange driver and tweeter. By adding a
side-firing woofer, he’s added a bit more bottom and gobs more body to
the music. Like I said, they still possess the delicacy of the Super 8s,
but with a shot of natural steroid mixed in for added strength. Not a
bad thing.

"Music pours out of The Nines with a grace and natural
fluidity not often heard at any price. Individual instruments are far
easier to delineate, even in complex instrumental textures. Female
vocals? Well, they’re sexier than a 1-900 call. Listening to a charming
10-inch Prestige LP of Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk, the timbres
and dynamics were so real and vivid I completely forgot the disc was
made well over 50 years ago. These DeVore speakers never let the music
down, never get in its way, but rather, let the locomotion and drive
possessed by the music set the pace, nothing drags, nothing wilts. The
result is like a drug: you don’t want to stop listening, you just want
more and more and more. And more."


From Art Dudley's Stereophile review:
"The
Nine's greatest strength was its multitude of strengths —that and the
manner in which it dispensed with all of my expectations. Compared to
the typical high-sensitivity loudspeaker, the DeVore Nine was more open
and less colored, with a significantly greater degree of spatial
performance. At the same time, compared to the typical high-end speaker,
the Nine was not only easier to drive, it was easier to love. It had
more drama and sheer humanity than I've ever heard from such an
outwardly conventional loudspeaker, and it never sounded boring or
constricted."

"...a superior grip on the music, an ability to
really focus my attention into that magical space between the speakers,
so that music is all that exists - an ultimate respect for the music."
Stephen Mejias, Stereophile.com

This loudspeaker may be named for
a nonhuman ape, but communicating human emotion, and the deep, human
logic of great music, is what it does best.— Jim Austin

These don't pop up often, so this is a rare chance to get a piece of sonic nirvana for a very reasonable price.