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In Reply to: RE: Latest Spica project posted by Bill Way on January 17, 2015 at 21:01:22
I find this very interesting as I kept my Spica Angelus cabinets with just such a project in mind. New drivers and first order crossovers would be used while keeping the cabinets. I wish you the best of luck with this project. Did you replace the stock drivers?
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I always thought the Angelus could use more robust drivers. Mine seemed somewhat distressed when pushed. Very unique and interesting design that did a decent disappearing act in the listening room. My electrostatic loving friend once said it was the only box ( if you want to call it that) speaker he could live with. Good luck on your project.
Thanks! I agree with you about the drivers and believe there exist much better drivers today than came with the original speaker. Also I think I can do much better (with the help of a speaker designer friend) on the crossover. The cabinet also will need some internal bracing. I have to do something soon as my wife keeps asking me why I kept those hideous speaker cabinets.
As I've said, good luck on what will be a challenging project. Glad you have a friend in tow for the x-over redesign. For what it's worth, I really like the Hiquephon tweeters in my SongTowers. That said, a plethora of drivers out there that might work quite well and still retain the disappearing act the Angelus was known for.
No driver replacement, though I put in new tweeter voice coil/domes a few years back. You can still get those, I think, from Madisound. There is no known replacement or equivalent for the woofer, but as you can get a pair of TC-50s for a couple hundred bucks on a good day, *that* is how one gets replacement woofers.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
WW-
I knew that I had not read anything about Spica lately? What happened to this speaker comapny? I remember it being very popular during the 1990's...
John sold the company to Parasound and they ended the line. Why did they buy it only to end it? I don't know.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Bought Spica but retained John Bau as designer. They came out with the TC -60 < a great successor to the TC -50 except that it needed more power (100watts recommended).Parasound management could not decide on the next offerings however. They had john hopping from project to project never really having the time to fully develop anything really new or another model to expand the line up (larger speaker, subwoofer, etc).
Eventually that killed the sales, though the TC-60 was an excellent speaker. The Alon 6 inch sub developed for their Napoleons made a superb matching woofer, BTW.
OH Yeah the TC-50s died because Polydax discontinued the paper woofer used and altered the tweeter. The TC -50 had no drivers at tht point.
Edits: 01/18/15
Thanks for that - it all sounds right, though my porous memory had let it all leak out.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Great and interesting story-Stu.
Strange and interesting indeed...
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