How about I sell it to you for just $499+ shipping, then? Trade for an NIB or like new NS12-794-4A with black basket and pointy dustcap considered. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
Seriously, I have no need for the thing but no interest in selling it either. It's an interesting sidenote to my posse of Aura subwoofers, which currently include 1 NS18-992-4A, 1 NS15-992-4A, 2 (other) NS12-794-4A's, and an NS10-794-4A. (None of the "diffusion line" -513 motor drivers, alas. Though if they come back I'll probably buy 3 NS12-513's for LCR mains with Tannoy 8" Dual Concentrics above them.)
Besides, I have no idea if it'll even arrive in one piece, as the seller took his sweet time shipping it and now I'm out of town for another week. So I've yet to even see the thing, let alone measure it to see if some hack at Monster somehow built a turd atop IMO the finest subwoofer platform currently available. (And yes, I've used subwoofers with XBL^2, Differential Drive, and LMS motors. Still have a Maelstrom-X and W15GTi, though the former is to be replaced with the NS18 and the latter is not in current use. They're all excellent, and hard if not impossible to tell apart sonically. But the Auras just look so much cooler and sound at least as excellent.)
This driver wouldn't be the first time Aura supplied Monster. Aura also makes most of the drivers for the (defunct?) M-Design speakers by Monster Cable, though at least the subs use the stock Aura models. The 2" drivers are Whispers, the 3" drivers are NS3's, and so on. If they're discontinued it's a pity, because the cabinetry is really superb and obviously they used top-quality drivers. Three of the aforementioned Aura drivers are in M-Design subs in my main system, the NS15 in an Eleganza Godfather and two NS12's in a brace of Eleganza Bellas.
If the line died, it's because Monster Cable people were so accustomed to perpetrating their usual fraud that when they had actual good product at a fair price, they had no idea how to sell it.
