I just picked up a pair of these for my brother in good shape on Ebay for $221. The woofers need new foam surrounds, but that's easy enough to do. As Boputnam said, fun for the whole family (that is, if your kids don't mind scraping the old glue off've the frames...).
The Model Nine's look like burly little speakers and from what I can gather, the woofers have die-cast frames. But I can't find out anything else, even looking these up in the library as far as component specs (magnet size, etc, etc.). How did these stack up against the JBL's like the L-166? or the L-65's? I took a chance on reputation on buying these and I hope some of the experts out there can fill me in.