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if you show me yours.10 in 3-way super efficient CVs driven by an original NAD 3020 and a Dual 505 TT with Ortofon cart. Capable of ear bleeding levels in my small bedroom.
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Not bad. bettered enormously by my next pair - Linn Index II
Not by any stretch equal to electrotats of today. Didn't keep them too long before I had enough to buy a pair of AR-2ax's.
And yet despite the look on my face, you're still talking.
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I still have them. For a party, and for reproducing the size and scale of Stadium Rock, they have no peer. My regular speakers are Thiel CS3.7's, but I will always have these!
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I bought a pair of these back in the summer of 1980. I had them for six years.
Correction!!!! Maxims and I re-sold them for a pair of Celestion Ditton 15s which I kept for a decade.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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These are not my speakers but look just like the ones I owned back in the 1980's, in blue. I kept the JBLs for a long time until around 1992 or so when I got a pair of used Thiel CS1.5 speakers. An audiophile 'friend' shamed me into getting the Thiels commenting that the JBLs were just 'party speakers'. The Thiels ARE better but the JBLs weren't THAT bad. ;-)
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Nice pic Abe.
and instead of Thiels, it was Vandersteens.
I bought them in 1975 and used them in the dorm. Got new grills for them a few years ago. My "big boy" system is in boxes while we look for a new house so the JBL's are being brought back into service. They have made nice main front speakers in my HT set up.
Regards,
Steve
Pic from internet,, Had these from 1979 till mid 80s,, driven by a Kenwood integrated. From Tech Hifi!
I don't have a photo of the actual speakers so found this one on the internet.
Marantz Imperial 7's. These were connected to a Marantz 7B/8C combo that I bought used for 50 dollars and later traded for a 1060 integrated. All back in the mid 70's when I was young and stupid.
housed in DIY 5-cubic-foot bass reflex enclosures. Driven by a Fisher 500C with a Miracord TT. A looooooong time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Jim
http://jimtranr.com
still have a pair of modified New Advents today.
These really weren't my first speakers, if I recall correctly they were the first and second upgrades to the speakers I bought from Railroad Freight when I brought home my first component system. Before the component systems I used a couple of different all in one TT portables with non-component cassette recorders and FM radios.NOT MY PHOTOS
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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The original "Advent", not the "One" or the "Smaller". No picture needed, and besides, they're long gone.
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1st real speakers ... 1984 ... I don't count the K mart Junk from my teenage years. Got tired of hauling these boys around and gave them to a friend who lost his big box speakers in a divorce settlement.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
--Zen Proverb
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~circa 1973. These had gorgeous cabinets. Sadly, they were stolen as I was packing my car to go home for summer break. On the plus side, our insurance covered these and I replaced them with Braun L710.
Were the flagship speakers from Wharfedale back in the late 80s early 90s - these are the Vanguards which I still own and which still thump a lot of so called hi-fi speakers. At 95db sensitive running mostly at 10ohm they are easy to drive and can play to a rather impressive 120dB and are 40hz to 23khz
They were an updated version of the classic E-70 - youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08zEtdCnyZw
I think some might be surprised by the ole E-70 and Vanguard today and I'd have liked to see an updated model with better parts just to see what could be done with them versus many of the slim multiple stacked speakers today.
The Vanguard was a rather dramatically improved version of the E-70 but Wharfedale was in financial trouble and went belly up. Later they were bought up by some other company that basically came out with total rubbish. Went under again and got bought out by the group that owns Quad. Still I prefer the Vanguard to the current Wharfedale speakers.
These are the Harman Kardon HK-25, omnidirectionals (pictures lifted from the Internet). They were part of my first system, when I was just entering high school, purchased used from some guys my friend knew.
The rest of the system was an Eico tube preamp, two Heath mono amps (likely W-5) and the AR XA turntable.
The speakers were awful, but I sure wish I'd kept everything else.
I ran them with a CJ MV-50 tube amp.
Sounded good at the time.
but the first good ones were a pair of original advents.
1977 model and used them for over 20 years.
(photo stolen from eBay)
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Sadly destroyed in shipment in the return back to the US from overseas where they were purchased and really never had the chance to hear them with decent amplification. :-(
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1979 :)
In a Karlson cabinet. Sorry, no pix. I wonder how it would sound today.
Smile
Sox
Bet it sounds grand.
Gave a friend $100 in 1970 for his Scott 299, Lab 80 and a new pair of XP-6s that he bought at the same time as a Sansui SS integrated and an AR table, stayed with his KLH 17s.
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No picture, but I made the cabinet myself and they had a horn tweeter and a 12" woofer purchased from Radioshack. I'm sure they didn't sound very good, but they played loud and, at the time, that was enough.
JBL L26, picture from the web
Pioneer SX-636, PL15DII, & Technics tape deck. Purchased from Schaak Electronics and Team Electronics in the Mpls/St.Paul area vintage 70's
Sweet pics guys!
First, KLH17 circa 1973, Built around them until i got my amplification sorted with a pr of MC3500's and then upgraded. Good when properly stand mounted, reasonably sound for the time, with careful setup via room positioning...
Regards
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Altec Voice of the Theater A-7
Not this pair but exactly the same.
Drove each one with a 35 Watt Dynaco Amp
and they were butt ugly, but damn they sounded fine!
thought they looked like robots. Ingesting certain substances made that imagined thought real as can be. I used to wheel them out to the deck (on the casters I added) and blast them into the forest where we lived. People complained that they heard them 2 miles away echoing thru the canyons....
They were sweet. More than few musicians plugged in and played thru them, some later on became famous. I had all of these sessions on 10 inch 7.5IPS 2 track tapes. They, along with the A-7s, burned up in the great cabin fire of 1970.
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Hell, you could do a lot worse today.
part of their CD-4 Quad home compo with rear channel speakers.
My first set of speakers were the infamous "Cal Stereo ARX 444" speakers.... 8 inch (?) white cone woofer, two 2 inch white cone tweeters placed horizonally above the woofer. The bookshelf speakers had a slot port below the woofer, and a removable foam grille.
AR-90's, I think I bought these around 1980.
If we played them too loud for too long the upper midrange would get hot.
(Rental house with four bachelors).
Don't have a picture but my first speakers I had were build by me from old, long oval speakers coming out old TVs found on the side of the road.
I cut a hole on top of the a shoebox and placed the drivers on top of the hole. Powered by a Car Radio and a DIY power supply.
Placed the shoe boxes on my Study table, I guess we could now call them - Desktop speakers :)
Polk Model 10b bought them while I was in college and working in the summer at Sam Goody's. Gave them to my brother-in-law.
Those were my 5th loudspeaker after getting into component audio. I loved em - kept em ten years. Replaced them with some Spica TC 60s, which until I moved out of our apartment worked just fine in a heaven and hell kind of way. Took about 10 years for me to find another speaker I liked more than the Polks - Spendor SP100s.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
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Optimus somethings.Along with Realistic receiver and BSR record changer circa 1974.
enjoy,
mark
Like these but mine were white and had JBL 2402 tweeters. The drivers are 10" Fostex FP253.
Built them in my bed room when I was 16. Amp was a Pioneer SA710 plus a Technics SL-Q2 with Denon DL160 and a BIC T-2 cassette thing.
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I still love them.
Observe, before you think. Think before you open your yap. Act on the basis of experience.
My first "decent" pair was the Avid 230's.
G-
no longer have pics, in 1988 bought the CV AT-12 w/ Sony ES receiver & cd player.
At that time, a good friend had the CV AT-10 w/ JVC receiver & cd player.
We had great times and many shoot-outs!
Pioneer, ca. 1975? 2" dome midrange. These were part of my first system, bought at "Foley's" department store in Houston, where I also started my dubious MO of buying first and paying (much more) later ... they gave me my first credit card.
Pioneer SX-450 receiver, BSR (I think) TT with ??? cart.
Queen's "A Night at the Opera" sounded very good in my bedroom with this system, I bought it after my parents' crappy one-box system skipped while playing it. SO thanks Mom and Dad (basically Dad) for nudging me into the world of high end audio ...
Pioneer, ca. 1975? 2" dome midrange. These were part of my first system, bought at "Foley's" department store in Houston, where I also started my dubious MO of buying first and paying (much more) later ... they gave me my first credit card.Pioneer SX-450 receiver, BSR (I think) TT with ??? cart. I think the whole system was $400 or something.
Queen's "A Night at the Opera" sounded very good in my bedroom with this system, I bought it after my parents' crappy one-box system skipped while playing it. SO thanks Mom and Dad (basically Dad) for nudging me into the world of high end audio ...
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Ian Paisley's little two-way bookshelf- circa 1985 (Internet stock photo I found).
The first set of speakers that I actually saved up for (from my first summer job washing dishes!) for and couldn't wait to get.Sure it had flaws, but it was much better than the POS Sears brand three-way speakers my grandmother bought me a few years prior...
Cheers,
Dman
Analog Junkie
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This is a stock photo stolen off the internet.
Various configurations, but mine were the same as ones pictured.
...Model 1, driven by a Harman/Kardon 330c with a Pioneer PL12DII table and an Audio Technica AT-13ea cartridge. Pretty sweet for $400 in 1977.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
My 1st lots of bang for the buck. I ran them with a phase liner 400and a McIntosh C26, this is in the mid 70's
(Pic is off the internet our phones didn't have cameras in them back then)
I had a set of 3s and later the 410s (frankly, I think the 410s were probably a step downward). The twos hit way over their weight.
I shopped for speakers in my price range (sub $200) for about a month and couldn't find anything I liked better. When they went on sale on Washington's Birthday (the biggest stereo sale day of the year back then) for $139 for the pair, the decision was made.
All my friends speakers were bigger and most had more or bigger stuff inside, but I liked the way mine sounded better.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
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