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In Reply to: RE: Latest Spica project posted by johns dad on January 18, 2015 at 05:01:39
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
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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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