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In Reply to: RE: 'audiophile' coined in 1951 posted by DavidLD on March 13, 2015 at 15:48:13
Yes.
If you really wanted to assemble a quality system back then, you could buy raw drivers from Altec and JBL. A universe of difference.
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Greetings once again from Sactown, DavidLD. After moi became gainfully employed back in the late 70s, a Ratio Shaq employee sold moi on their Realistic branded 12" Utah Cadence instrument speakers for hi-fi duty. Said they made lousy guitar speakers, because they neither produced distortion like Celestions nor could survive massive instrument amp volumes. But for audio reproduction, they were a poor person's Electro Voice. Revealed various amp intonations quite nicely. And man could they pump that bass, coupled with a fairly strong mid-range, in two-way configuration. Still use a pair for Hafler rear-channel duty. So it's kinda ironic that several decades later Utah instrument speakers would find a niche with lower powered instrument amplification amongst diy hobbyists. An 8" driver converted an original generation Fender Sidekick 10 into easily-emulated Derek & Dominos Live In Concert tone quite nicely. Wonder if it woulda sounded the same with an 8" Pyle Driver, which came from the same Chicago manufacturing plant???
I had some 10" Utah full range drivers in a homemade, but very well constructed cabinet that sounded remarkably like my Dynaco A25's. Implementation is very important.
Dave
Altec and JBL both made paper coned, cloth surround alnico magnet drivers...
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