Mr. Lewis Erath has passed away

[Jonasz]

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[indianajo]

I had a pair of LWE 3 speakers I bought at Home Electronics in Houston about 1971. I liked the sound of them, but my ST70 burned out one of the tweeters about 1975 and I didn't have the nerve to change it out with a generic Quam speaker. There was wasn't a lot of choice in those days for people that "didn't have an open account" with the parts dealer, you either bought what he had laying surplus out in the front of the shop, or didn't buy anything. Stupid questions were not allowed at the parts desk. Or you could go to the dealer, and pay whatever he wanted to charge. I was making $3 an hour in those days. Dad pitched the speakers after I was called back into the Army in 1980.
The LWE 3 had a feedback mechanism that involved led's in the speaker box and mirror tape on the speakers- there was a 6 pin Jones plug installed on the ST70 that fed the feedback back into the feedback loop of the amp. Brilliant idea, I don't know why nobody else ever did this. The most amazing thing was that on Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" which Atco recorded particularly hot, the woofer would vibrate in and out about 2 cm. Not even my Peavey T-300's do that song quite so impressively. Thanks for the memories, Mr. Erath.