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In Reply to: RE: What would be your box speaker if you did not own stats or planars? posted by CAM3XL on December 10, 2014 at 13:39:18
Yes, you can even fit a refurbished 70s or 80's La Scala in the budget. It is just unimaginable how dynamic those things sound.
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Might sound crazy but I'd look for a set of KEF 104aB's. Efficient, crazy good base, wonderful imaging, and very low coloration. Won't shake the walls, but there's a reason so many high end speakers use KEF drivers. This is one of them. The 104aB's mixed their best very high power 8" woofer/midrange (B200 1243) with a flat piston passive radiator (tuned correctly) and one of KEF's best tweeters. The aB stands for "Acoustic Butterworth). They tuned the passive radiator to "crossover" using the physics of the drivers & box as inputs to a Butterworth crossover design and it worked. Definitely a speaker that punches above its weight.
Not familiar with that version. I was very much taken by the 104.2 in the day nearly 30 years ago.
The 104/2 was a very complex and expensive next iteration that bore no physical resemblance to the 104 and 104 aB. While the 104/2 is an excellent if ambitious design, the original 104 & 104 aB's were brilliant in their simplicity, range, and clarity. Placed on stands (they were a large bookshelf type box) they really are a testament to what fine drivers and thoughtful engineering can do in a simple two way box.
Odd that I never came across them. Thanks.
The 104.2, Altec VOT, ML CLS, and Tympani IV were the speakers that took me by surprise when I first heard them and brought tears to my eyes. And none of them were playing Billie Holiday....
They show up on ebay occasionally. They look like a 3-way but they actually only have two active drivers. I got a set for one of my daughters last year and paired them with an Audio Research D-52. Excellent.
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