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In Reply to: Acknowledging Excellence posted by ggraff on September 26, 2001 at 06:39:18:
Max...The 'rock' turntable.. a tweaked out technical tour de force implementation of the cranfield TT complete with damping trough and paddles... dealt the LP12 a serious boot in the behind.
The Excalibur array speakers... pure high end extravagance impossible without the venerable Ted Jordan (who's drivers it used). A line array of 2 inch full rangers running flat out augmented by a 6 (or was it 8) inch woofer.. all drivers were thin aluminium to Teds' design. The cabinet was cast (yes cast) plaster of paris. Very solid imaging, extremely heavy, and took piano black laquer to new hieghts...
The seismic sink... a lateral look at isolation rather than resonant tuning of a system, a breakthrough product, arguably more neutral than a Mana.
Anthony Michaelson..
Started Michaelson and Austin.. release the TVA10 valve amp.. later worked with Tim Paravincini.. classic highend homebrewed, tweaky techy slightly unstable, but if you took the risk, you got great bangs for your bucks... He has continued in Audio, but many products have not achieved greatness
Tim Paravincini.. worked with Anthony Michaelson, and then started EAR. High end, off beat, cultish but some of the finest finished, most reliable and fantastic valve products that are up on valve fanshion.. excellent value.
Peter Qvotrop.. Audio Note UK.. need I say more.
Now to the wild card in the mix.. Martin Colloms. This man has done more design work than I care to remember, all for different manufacturors. He has authored several books on design, and his experience is well founded in theory... a real unsung hero.
I should add Mr Voight, Mr Blumlein, Mr Leak, Mr Walker, Mr Sugden etc etc, but then that would be an audio who's who..
Having fun
Owe
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- Max Townshend.. Anthony Michaelson... Tim Paravincini... Peter Qvotrop... Martin Colloms.. - Owen 02:59:59 09/27/01 (0)
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