Legendary speakers..

[ronzeman]

Radford Studio 90 (hi-boy) Sold in USA as Audionics TL90. 1/4 wavelength 3way transmission line speaker w/ Radford drivers and crossover.

[Lynn Olson]

Originally posted by salas
Is that the one Lynn Olson designed?

No. It influenced me, though, since I was working on the Shadow Vector project at Audionics while they were importing the big Radford. A very good speaker for the day, and superb bass. We did some of the our quadraphonic demos with a quartet of the Radfords - now that was impressive, four transmission lines running at full tilt!

[planet10]

Originally posted by ronzeman
Radford Studio 90

That is the loudspeaker that in the early '70s got me onto a transmission line kick...

dave

[igrant]

Radford Studio 180's, never took them apart, but got some info and while different inside, supposedly not transmission line.

These are still my favourite speakers for making and listening to music. Lent to a friend when I went abroad a few years ago and he and his sons have no interest in returning them.

They were built in Calgary, by either Bill Perkins or George from General Audio. Sold new to Sam the Record Man's wife and spent there life playing Jazz, until I got a hold of them.

I have close-up pics somewhere, they are the main speakers, dual mids and tweets on angles, with 10" woofer, sealed. JBL 4408's in top, never bothered using them.



Ian

[qwad]

surely, the dahlquist dq 10 deserves a mention as well that is if it hasnt already

[Fosti]

No. 1: MEG 901 K

[Salas]

Originally posted by qwad
surely, the dahlquist dq 10 deserves a mention as well that is if it hasnt already

Had a rather recent discussion thread
about the DQ-10.

[qwad]

l'll second the spendor bc1, and the gale 401's, most impressive dynamics on the latter, not to mention clarity, second only to the bc1, oh btw i see someone mention the rca lc1, l had a pair but the size of the enclosures made living with them difficult so l sold them, ohh has anybody mentioned any of the Richard Allan drivers? their omission would be a crime to audio memories of the late 60's early 70's cheers T,C.

[owen]

The mighty Spendor BC1 ... A tower of legend in itself.

But, for deisgners, my vote goes to Martin Colloms - he was amongst the first to the minimalist crossover movement, and designed a number of great speakers two of which are the Musical Fidelity MC2 and MC4 (series 1 only) - the MC are his initials

Oh, and I'll confess to owning a pair of black minimus 77's...


Owen

[aubergine]

I think most older ones have been mentioned by now, I'll just add the JBL 4530/20 and EAW BH-882 (last one not hi fi really). And the Karlson if it hasn't been mentioned already.

The original poster asked for all legendary speakers including new ones. I'll kick that off with the SPL TD1 and after that all of the Unity horns.