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In Reply to: RE: Panasonic RPHJE120K In-Ear Headphones posted by DavidLD on September 08, 2014 at 11:55:31
...PA speaker builder. Just a thought.
Later Gator,
Dave
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Utah speakers were everywhere! But maybe the majority of them were branded Knight or Allied, and were ordered in various states of completion from Allied Radio cataloges through about 1970. They were frequently paired with a kit-built Knight (KG prefix) amplifier or factory built (KN prefix) amplifier or receiver. MOST if not all of the 2-and 3-way drivers Allied sold were probably of Utah manufacurer as well.
The odd thing I always thought is that magazines such as Stereo Review and High Fidelity never acknowledged that this aspect of the hobby even existed let alone run comparison tests with speakers from the "hoity-toity" east-coast companies such as Acoustic Research. They seemed to act as if they were above all the Knight kit builders running Utah-made speakers. Of course, Allied would happily sell you any AR speaker as well, and even sold some in unfinished pine.
My 1970 Allied catalog has all sorts of Utah-branded speakers and tons of Allied branded speakers that are Utahs in only slight disguise.
The Hi fi magazines such as High Fidelity ignored all of this.
The basic Utah design in later years that had the big 12 inch woofer and huge 8-inch mid-range was really underappreciated by the larger hi fi community. That combination was very musical.
David
I had a pair of Ultralinear speakers in the early 70's. After they finally died I opened them up to find a Utah label on the inside of the crossover board.
I think Utah was the "working mans" speaker. Good quality sound and affordable, for the time.
charles
Utah had contracts to do the innards and maybe the cabinets for any number of different brands. They guilt low cost and good quality drivers. The remains of Utah are Pyle. I suspect they made the drivers for a lot of brown goods console stereos in the 60s and 70s as well.
I had bought some 12 inch Utah full range drivers in very high quality, home made cabinets. They sounded remarkably similar to my Dynaco A-25 speakers, but were much more efferent. IMO they are real sleepers. You won't get rich flipping them, but good sound can be had for cheap!
Dave
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