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planet10 said:
I'd put RS2 and RS4 above the TM3. I have a soft spot for those 2 Tangents, and John Greenbank had some impact on the development of my design skills.

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i got my pair for £25 in a old tat hifi shop, muddeled in with all the other old junk. but my keen eye for quality after a quick leaver with the screwdriver to check the drivers, told me buy buy, and i nocked a fiver of, ha

to fill in the low end sound you can use a well set up subwoofer

i plan to use them alongside my diy mains when i have finished them

i havent heard the other 2. im assuming you have heard all 3 speakers? then. please elaborate, i am interested.

also who was John Greenbank
 
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geewhizbang said:
I heard the Dalquists at a high-end stereo shop in Tacoma, Washington. in 1979 They were very, very impressive and shockingly expensive.
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I was in the business myself around that time, sold a few pairs and owned DQ10, the sub and passive XO, and compared to some of the other mainstream products I flipped during those crazy times, or sold in the same shop ( Celestion Ditton 66. Yamaha NS1000, Ohm F, JBL, Quad ESLs etc) I wouldn't really describe the Dahlquists as "shockingly expensive" - unfortunately inefficient, and therefore expensive to drive , yes

Now the DaytonWright XG8 mentioned earlier or the Crown ES224, those would qualify as bloody expensive to own and operate

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WaVeInFoRm said:
Tangent TM-3s cannot believe they havent been mentioned yet 😱

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ah yes, as DaveD has already noted John Greenbank's entire has some highs and lows - I owned a pair of the pyramid RS8s myself - and shortly before or thereafter the each the little KEF101a(or b? ), and Spica SC50 (the round ones)


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It seems nobody mentioned the Philips motional feedback series. Philips was onto a scientific approach to sound, at a time when Floyd Toole was still in Canada, and Harman remained hyacked by East-Coast-Sound 'engineers'.

Besides the MFB. which was very clever, they were also the first large production run active speakers. In addition, they had switches to influence low end curves in order to accomodate different placements in different rooms. They still beat many speakers coming on the market today.
 
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vacuphile said:
It seems nobody mentioned the Philips motional feedback series. Philips was onto a scientific approach to sound, at a time when Floyd Toole was still in Canada, and Harman remained hyacked by East-Coast-Sound 'engineers'.

Besides the MFB. which was very clever, they were also the first large production run active speakers. In addition, they had switches to influence low end curves in order to accomodate different placements in different rooms. They still beat many speakers coming on the market today.
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#254
Back in mid 80's all we dreamt about was the money to buy the kit for building the F3/Lyd TrapezX. So in a sense legendary DIY speakers - at least i Denmark. These speakers was the entry ticket to audio nirvana 🙂. F3 is now known as Audiovector and they build very nice but not legendary speakers.

For individual speaker units i think ScanSpeak has built many great and widely applied speakers - especially from what is known now as their Classic range. They invented Symmetric Drive as far as i know. Also the Dynaudio D-28 Soft Dome Tweeter is legendary i think.
 
#256
A set of infinities in the early 90's are my only encounter with really high end sound. I've never been able to track down what they actually were, and I suspect it may have been a combo. They were electrostatic (possibly the Infinity Beta) but the woofer columns had six X 12" woofers, not the four that the Beta's have.

Absolutely stunning, and definitely made it sound like Jenifer Warnes was there standing in front of me singing. I nearly cried when I listened to my system after that!

Tony.
 
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to my ear, loudspeaker i still remembered the most is quad esl 63 .
I used to owned one but the panels went kaput
i sold the unit cheaply and still kicking myself because they're repairable

others honorable mention : Celestion sl600, Apogee stage, LS3/5a 16ohm
newer speakers are way too much money
 
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Can I mention the Ohm A's & F's again? Phenomenally groundbreaking design that needed a LOT of love to even get close to hearing what they were capable of. These do some things that NO other speaker could ever hope to do. Even better when you fix the multiple design flaws built into them from the factory. I know one professional speaker rebuilder that says that the F's were the only speaker that he is aware of that left the factory "broken" by design. That is, in comparison to how they could / should operate when fully optimized.

Other than that, here's one that I didn't see mentioned in all 26 pages. It is the Acoustic Research model 9. Utilizing much of the design homework that Roy Allison had previously contributed to AR while he was employed there and even "liberating" ( actually STEALING ) design innovations from John Dunlavy via AR's "Acoustic Blanket", the AR 9 was in my opinion, one of the most influential large multi-way designs ever made. Like most other ancient sealed behemoths, they need to be updated with better wiring, crossover parts and be fed with GOBS of good clean power for best results. When you do that though, they will demonstrate what a bargain they are compared to many of the other "mega-dollar" designs currently on the market. When you consider that these sold for $1500 per pair in 1979 though, it is easy to see that AR thought quite a bit of this product even back then.

Speakers that I always wanted to hear but never did? Hill Plasmatronics.

Thanks for a trip down memory lane. Oh yeah. And a few laughs too 🙂 Sean
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