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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???


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