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In Reply to: RE: That time also gave birth to the “Statement” products, from the Beveridge to the Infinity IRS, Wilson WAMM, posted by mondial on November 14, 2010 at 13:50:08:
It really is impressive the number of remarkable designs that came out of that era.
It is interesting to note that the wide baffle speaker typified by the Snell Type A, Infinity RS 4.5, ElectroVoice Patrician II, and one I forgot to list, the Crown ES 212 and its big brother the ES-224 which had a massive array of RtR tweeters, 48 in total, even more than the Wilson WAMM which only had 18, all had their heyday in the late 70s to early 80s and were all but gone by 1990. The only recent speaker of that design I can think of is the Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage.
PS. As a side note, if anyone cares, the Crown ES series problem was that they tried to crossover the RtR array at too low a frequency 375 hz, using the ESLs as a midrange which they are not. Wilson's WAMM array was used above 5 kHz, strictly tweeter territory and much easier to drive the electrostatic panels; far less distortion too above 2 kHz. Even the original JansZen esl only used the panels above 1500hz and that was pushing them to go that low.
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- The Snell does tend to be overlooked much like Shahinian and Irving “Bud” Fried's Transmission Line - cfb 19:38:16 11/14/10 (0)
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