DeVore FidelityGibbon 9usedDeVore Fidelity Gibbon 9HI everyone, I ordered these speakers on Audiogon yesterday but decided to splurge on a set of Devore O/96s that are three times the price...but, hey, you only live once :) These are scheduled t...3999.00

DeVore Fidelity Gibbon 9

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Ships fromBoulder, CO, 80301-6073
Ships toUnited States
Package dimensions?" × ?" × ?" (138.0 lbs.)
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Shipping cost$150.00
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HI everyone, I ordered these speakers on Audiogon yesterday but decided to splurge on a set of Devore O/96s that are three times the price...but, hey, you only live once :)
These are scheduled to arrive on 4/14, after which they will be available to ship.  Here is the original ad...
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.

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