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In Reply to: RE: Vintage find? Sort of! Realistic Solo-103 posted by Crazy Dave on August 22, 2016 at 09:04:25
Are these the Solo 1 from the mid-1960s ? Full range 6" ? The model from the '60s was a good one. Power handling is minimal though....nice for relaxing levels of music...
Can you shoot a pic of yours ?
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Here they are. I think if they were from the 60's the drivers would be alnico, but they are ferrite, so my guess is 70's.
Dave
I assume the pair I have are ceramic magnets, too -- I've never looked, come to think of it.
R/S sold versions of that danged FE-103 driver for a long, long time :-)
Heck, Fostex still sells 'em...
all the best,
mrh
Which is most likely a much better driver. It is nice to know that if I do commit to a system with this speaker, that I can replace the drivers if I bow them. Although I am not a volume freak and haven't blown a driver since college. At around $100 a pair, the budget is blown! This a strong canditates for my computer system. I have just bought a Macbook and I need to figure out how that works out. I have a few very interesting integrated amps to do this. Wish me luck Mark!
Dave
Keep us posted.
:-)
all the best,
mrh
I've never directly A/B'd them -- although I could if I got up the gumption.
I got a pair of the little 4" "Kanspea" enclosure "kits" (loaded with the modern FE-103eN) when Madisound had 'em on sale a couple of years back. They're adorable and, I'd opine, they sound pretty good.
(and, yeah, that's a vintage soiled-state amplifier...albeit a half-way interesting one)
all the best,
mrh
I was tempted by the Kanspea enclosures myself, but it is pretty rare for me to buy something new. What integrated amp is that?
Dave
Kit version of an early, soiled state, quasi-complementary capacitor coupled outputs. A $10 find at NEARC a few years back -- it's not a bad sounding amplifier.
I bought it mostly for the HH Scott wood cabinet in which it was ensconced. I thought (and I was more or less correct) that it might fit some piece of HH Scott tube equipment. It holds a 350B tuner "reasonably" well... so the LK-60 was pretty much a bonus.
The Kanspeas were on sale when I got them -- better yet, I got them as a birthday present from Mrs. H (although, financially, that was sort of a zero-sum game). The package price was about what the two drivers were going for at the time, if memory serves.
all the best,
mrh
The styling is very similar to my Scott 222D amp. The knobs are the same too. They might come in handy on a rebuild of a tubed Scott. Love those Scott tuner dials!
Dave
Catalog page from 1970.
all the best,
mrh
I like that 30-17k response from the 103! I bet 30 Hz was impressive...
Not a chance....or the 20 Hz that was claimed
for the Mach-1. Lucky to get to 40.
Form what I heard, more like 80Hz, but resealing the surrounds might help. These did not have a Zobel and had ferrite magnets.
Dave
The Solo 1 had an... interesting 6" twincone driver with a tiny whizzer (perhaps it had feelings of inadequacy?) :-)
They (the Solo 1s) aren't bad sounding, either.
They had an interesting porting scheme, too :-)
(note the holes in the back in the photo above)
all the best,
mrh
Cool! Those are alnico too. Nice find!
Dave
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