So yesterday 3 9844a's show up on my local craigslist for 200.00. It's at a church sale, and they are starting the sale at 5:00. So a get there 2 hours early and I am 3 in line, and I ask the people in front of me, what they are interested in, neither say anything about speakers, so I think I probably will get them. I ask one of the attendents if he could show me the speakers, he say's sure, but I sold them already... I was looking for a basement system, and was wondering how these speakers stack up in the Altec line up?