I agree with Goatwuss, never ever buy a speaker w/o hearing first. I did buy my seas w/o hearing, but did know hear the Seas' W22 in a DIY design I paid a guy to buld for me. Cost me $2K for the guy to build and i sold them after one day for $800. There are always exceptions. As i am interested in Tyler's 3 ways, which use the seas, but how they actually sound I am not sure and may take the chance, just based on my experience of the Thors I own. So if you know the sound of the drivers used in a design from previous experience then at least you are not going in blindly, or in this case deafly.
Paul
Paul