Legendary speakers..

[anubisgrau]

I've never heard them but they certainly look as impressive as they can be, and those lucky enough to hear/own them, swear into them:

Living Voice Air Scout (smaller)
Living Voice Air Partner (bigger)

[felixx]

Vitavox
Westminster Royal
Westlake Audio
Goto drivers
JBL Everest
Ale drivers
TAD-pro

http://www.westlakeaudio.com/Speaker...ce_series.html

[felixx]

Also Latour speaker from Shindo:
http://www.shindo-laboratory.co.jp/English/speaker.html

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/m.../roadtour.html

[audiobomber]

- Spendor BC1

- JR 149

- Museatex Melior One (point-source planar speaker) http://www.museatex.com/planar1.htm

- Energy 22 (first speaker developed with help from NRC. Helped launch Canadian speakers worldwide)

- Time Frame

- Vandersteen 2

[badman]

5 1/4" in a vented box, tuned to 80 I think. Meh, who cares.... except! It had the linaeum dipole ribbon on top.

Good sounding little speaker, ratshack sold a lot of them too, they were often on sale for $150/pair.

[Scioneer]

I'd like to add another Radio Shack Entry.

The Realistic Mach One

Ajustable Mids and Highs on the box, A 15 inch woofer that, while somewhat low in wattage for a 15, was efficient enough to make even the smallest amps roar, and on a moderate amp ( about 50 watts) they sounded like a Battleship firing broadsides in your living room, and the Mid and Tweeter horns were loud and clear enough to keep up with the "gunboats" mounted below them.

Overall a powerful, yet accurate sounding set that were among many of Radio Shack's "sleepers".

[mashaffer]

I lusted over those mach 1s as a kid in HS they just looked so right. As usual even to this day though budget constraints reared their heads and I ended up with a set of Nova 6s. They weren't bad for the money but not very efficient. Five watts was not really enough.

mike

[Scioneer]

^ I guess the 'Mini 7' wasn't around at that time.

[mpmarino]

Cerwin Vega 'refrigerators'.

I didn't particularly like them, but they are certainly legendary big box store speakers....

[N-Channel]

Originally posted by TerryO
I'll add the Rat Shack Minimus 7. They must have sold a million of these over the years........ I bet that if many of you looked around through your hoard of audio treasures, you might very well have a pair stashed away. I don't expect anyone to admit owning a set of these, other than myself, that is...........


Best Regards,
TerryO

Terry,

I proudly declare that I own 2 pairs of the black Mini-7's (40-2030C) made in Japan (not Malaysia or Singapore), and 2 1/2 pair Pro-7AVs (the "1/2" pair is actually my center speaker).

Oh, and I forgot, I have set as favorite searches in eBay: Minimus 7, Minimus 7W, and Pro-7AV. I estimate that I will need no fewer than four more pair before everything is right in the world for me.

I also second the vote for the Realstatic (Uh, I meant Realistic) Mach Ones. Having worked for the big red Radio Schmuck, I sold my share of the Mach Twos, and of course sold (and bought) my share of Mini-7's over the years. I lamented the day they finally discontinued them (and the Mini-77s, and the Mini-11's). The only follow-on I ever liked to the '-7's were the Pro-7AVs, as they stayed as close to the originals as possible, while adding a turnable logo, and of course, magnetic shielding.

I want to start a new thread (after searching first, of course) asking if anyone has ever internally amplified their Mini-7's (or -77s or -11s) with a chip-amp? I'm hoping this will spark some interest.

As for other entries, how about the Matthew Polk SDA-series from the 80's? You had to run cables between the L & R drivers to get the correct stereo imaging, or something like that. I think Polk likened it to having the headphone effect (no crosstalk) without the headphones. Hmmmm............

Cheers for now and '73,

Steve