Sonus faber Amati Homage full-range masterpieces

The Great Life SImplification continues...These are an amazing pair of Amati Homage, made in 2001. They have been babied for their entire lives, and the finish on the speakers shows it: no dings, scratches, or even dull spot. However, the little feet the spikes sit in show some scratches and divots, as these speakers are really heavy, and i didn't always get the spike right into the cup when adjusting location. the binding posts have a few little scratches too, as is typical with use.The grills have stretched badly over the years, but in my opinion, they did nothing for the looks and were detrimental to the sound. New ones are available from Sonus faber through their dealers for $800. I am the second owner: the first was none other than THE Carl Bernstein, who it turns out is quite the audiophile. He drove them with Lamm amps. I have been using Nagra VPAs, which I just sold a few days ago here on 'gon. 
These speakers are awesome. I am really sad to sell them. 
From the Stereophile review:

Serblin's first goal was to design as resonance-free a structure as he could, for a three-way speaker that would extend further down in frequency than any he'd yet built. The cabinet's lutelike shape was inspired by a drawing by Stradivari. (Sonus Faber holds an international patent on the design.) Such looks are dramatic and make good brochure copy, but what do they have to do with loudspeaker design?

Plenty, it seems—the Amati Homage's magnificent form follows its function. The lutelike shape eliminates parallel cabinet walls—especially the back wall—and helps control or eliminate standing waves. The curved side walls add tremendous structural rigidity. According to Serblin, the tapered form eases the transmission of the speaker's back wave to the ports and results in cleaner energy evacuation. When you think about it, the funnel shape makes complete sense: there's very little internal surface for the wave to bounce off of.

Like those of other premium SF speakers, the Amati's side walls are constructed of slats of wood, each slat built up of 21 sheets of varying thicknesses of maple laminated with a high-viscosity polymeric glue. Between each slat is an inlay of solid maple, aniline-dyed black. The slats are heat- and pressure-curved in a device that looks like a boat-hull former. The cabinet's top and bottom are of thick, solid maple.

All drive-units perch forward of the cabinet edges, with the midrange and tweeter angled back from the bass drivers. The sculpted and partly angled front baffle is of 11/2" MDF covered in stippled leather. Aside from looking handsome, the leather provides topical damping, and is not only the gasket material for the drivers but a means of breaking up and diffracting energy along the baffle surface. The ported back piece is sculpted from a solid piece of aniline-dyed Balkan maple with a closer grain than the side walls.

Additional internal resonance control is provided by strategically placed copper/lead structures and subcabinetry. Each driver has its own chamber; though there are dual woofer ports, the two woofers' backwaves fire into a common chamber and out both ports, which are located almost halfway up the back. The midrange driver is also ported. The cabinet is richly finished: hand-applied stain and seven coats of special varnish result in a deep, lustrous, glasslike finish. Each speaker weighs a solid 150 lbs.

The finished product is simply one of the most stunning-looking large loudspeakers ever built by anyone. Upright caskets, refrigerators on spikes, Robbie the Robot—all those big speakers look silly next to the Amati.

Three-way, floorstanding, dynamic loudspeaker. Drive-units: 1.2" (28mm) soft-dome tweeter, 7" (180mm) paper/carbon-fiber/titanium-cone midrange unit, two 8.3" (210mm) rigid paper/carbon-fiber-cone woofers. Crossover: first-order "attenuated," 200Hz and 2.5kHz. Frequency response: not specified. LF extension: 24Hz. Measured impedance: 4 ohms nominal. Measured sensitivity: 92dB/W/m. Power requirements: 30-300W.
Dimensions: 46" H by 101/2" W by 223/4" D. Weight: 154 lbs each.
Read more at http://www.stereophile.com/content/sonus-faber-amati-homage-loudspeaker-specifications#9CjRC1YCkGBwoAVS.99

These are heavy: 300+ pounds. I don't have the original crates (I actually used an art mover to move them from Carl's apartment to mine when i was in New York). So these are PICK-UP ONLY, or you can arrange to have them crated and shipped. The price is very low for these, and the shipping inconvenience is factored in. Paypal please add 3%