I am not sure if these fall into vintage to say but I love my original 4024a Realistic Mach ones. They can take a beating all day long from my vintage Peavey CS800 and have never faltered.
Now my B&Ws may sound better but cannot give that ear killing loud rock sound when I want it 🙂
Now my B&Ws may sound better but cannot give that ear killing loud rock sound when I want it 🙂
That's SO like the Wharfedale E70 I mentioned earlier. The MTM part needs to be offset sideways for diffraction control, and doubling up the mids is good for impedance and power handling and presence.
It's a great concept! 🙂
I have a pair of vintage Tannoy 12 reds in Belvedere Senior cabinets and how I came by them may be of interest.
About 14 or so years ago I attended a local school rummage sale with the idea of picking up a couple of cycles for the grand kids to use when they visited us. We did not manage to purchase any bikes but I noticed a garage sale just opposite the school parking lot with a pair of raw speakers on the lawn.
The speakers were orange dustcap Tannoy 12 in. reds for $1.50can each.
On getting them home I tested them and found one to be not working and then noticed it had N. Good lightly written in pencil on the magnet housing. Using a meter, I found the trouble to be a break in the wire from the cone to the frame, within the vinyl.
It was easily repaired and the speakers hung up until I decided on a cabinet design and I sort of forgot about them.
A couple of years later I notice a small add on a board in our local shopping center offering a pair of TANNOR speakers for sale. I drove up the road to take a look and ended up at the same address where I had purchased the reds.
The cabinets were immaculate and had belonged to the woman's husband, now deceased. They were her husbands pride and joy and she said they were expensive to purchase when new. I paid the woman the $200 she was asking and took them home.
I could not wait to get the backs off to see what was inside, the labels on the backs had the same serial nos. as the drives I had purchased previously.
Inside the boxes were the Tannoy crossovers, not connected, and 2, cheapest of the cheap, flimsy, RS speakers with a wizzer cone!
The Tannoy 12 inch reds were back home and I ended up with a fabulous pair of speakers for not a lot of money.
About 14 or so years ago I attended a local school rummage sale with the idea of picking up a couple of cycles for the grand kids to use when they visited us. We did not manage to purchase any bikes but I noticed a garage sale just opposite the school parking lot with a pair of raw speakers on the lawn.
The speakers were orange dustcap Tannoy 12 in. reds for $1.50can each.
On getting them home I tested them and found one to be not working and then noticed it had N. Good lightly written in pencil on the magnet housing. Using a meter, I found the trouble to be a break in the wire from the cone to the frame, within the vinyl.
It was easily repaired and the speakers hung up until I decided on a cabinet design and I sort of forgot about them.
A couple of years later I notice a small add on a board in our local shopping center offering a pair of TANNOR speakers for sale. I drove up the road to take a look and ended up at the same address where I had purchased the reds.
The cabinets were immaculate and had belonged to the woman's husband, now deceased. They were her husbands pride and joy and she said they were expensive to purchase when new. I paid the woman the $200 she was asking and took them home.
I could not wait to get the backs off to see what was inside, the labels on the backs had the same serial nos. as the drives I had purchased previously.
Inside the boxes were the Tannoy crossovers, not connected, and 2, cheapest of the cheap, flimsy, RS speakers with a wizzer cone!
The Tannoy 12 inch reds were back home and I ended up with a fabulous pair of speakers for not a lot of money.
In general you are right! The design of the Amatis is based on the AR, but with other drivers!
Here is a true Legend from Germany, the mighty Sphäron from Acapalla Audio, developed by Alfred Rudolph! Compared to that wonderfull Monster, nearly all modern HighEnd Loudspeakers are toys!
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Do you talk about my posts? None of the Speaker that I postet are still in production!!!
No not the best friend, a remake a new, version of the Sphäron but with some big differences in design and also in the bassrange! The old one was persented in 1981 in Duesseldorf Germany during the HiFi Exhibition there! The new version is from 2007 or 2008 and still in production upon request. Compared to the old version much easyer to integrate into a room!
The old one uses a huge center basshorn (that huge brown closet between the satelites), the new one uses a 4x 15" Woofertower on each side. The placing of the Horns is also very different to the first version and as far as I do know also the drivers, except the Ionic Tweeter are new!
The old one uses a huge center basshorn (that huge brown closet between the satelites), the new one uses a 4x 15" Woofertower on each side. The placing of the Horns is also very different to the first version and as far as I do know also the drivers, except the Ionic Tweeter are new!
I had 2 cabinets with a pair of Fane 50WRMS 12 inch dual cone in each.
In conjunction with a Maplin 150WRMS amplifier it sounded very good and was very loud.
I used them on a mobile disco for many years with no problems.
In conjunction with a Maplin 150WRMS amplifier it sounded very good and was very loud.
I used them on a mobile disco for many years with no problems.
I was 13 when I bought a pair of the Realistic Mach One. The midrange was the high point for me. As a kid, I was admired by my friends for having 15" woofers. I sold my whole stereo years later to by a 1978 Trans Am. The car was better for meeting girls.
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Another +1 for the Spendor BC1s. I was listening to my parents' over Christmas and they still sound incredible.
for what's in my pile now - Karlson X15, KLH17, Klipsch Heresy I are ok too - sounds fine with Jimmy Martin or Fritz Wunderlich. in the distant past had Maggies, direct drive Acoustat, ESS Transtatics - Magnepan's glue and wire deteriorated in WV's toxic atmosphere - MG1 imp was too weak to fill a larger room even with a Bedini 200/200 - Tympani 1D were ok in small-medium room - nice for jazz trios.
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Ah... nice
Quad ESL-57 (my father owned these when I was a kid)
Stax Lamda ear speakers
Pro Ac ESB
Apogee Duetta
Martin-Logan CLS-IIz
Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage
Magneplanar MG-20
Verify Parsifal
-- owned them all save the MG-20 and the Faber. Parsifals and CLS's in the right rooms/equipment is all I'd need.
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