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REVIEW: Utah Cadence Speakers

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Model: Cadence
Category: Speakers
Suggested Retail Price: $unknown
Description: "Making better, clearer amplified sound waves is the THING Cadence does, better than anything else in the industry"
Manufacturer URL: Not Available
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Review by FRG7SWL ( A ) on February 22, 2004 at 20:57:12
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So proclaimed Utah's ad for their Cadence line of guitar speakers in the late sixties. Trouble was, their 12" models were being usurped by Jensens in Fender amps, and Britain's Celestions in Marshall amps! They were just too clean sounding for a new generation of distortion-crazed decibel devils, and would self-destruct before even a hint of cone break-up occured! "They're lousy guitar speakers", a Ratio Shaq employee confided of his Realistic-badged Utah Cadence line in the late 70s. "But they're great hi-fi speakers! They'll handle all the bass your amp or receiver can throw at 'em, and they've got a crisp, clean midrange! You'll hear exactly what your amp's output sounds like"! He also recommended coupling them with Phillips tweeters over Ratio Shaq horns, which died ignoble deaths several months later(side one of "Lou Reed Live" proved to be too "Vicious")! A quarter century later, though, those Utahs are still going strong as sound room monitors in Sansui speaker cabinets! Replaced in the living room by Celestion Vintage 30s and their larger-than-life warm, woody tonality! Yet those Utahs still sound as clean as Paul McCartney's grand-dad in "A Hard Dazed Knight"!!!


Product Weakness: Could infuriate Wilson Watt/Puppy owners; known to induce Kate Bush fantasies during "Dreaming" playback
Product Strengths: Clean-n-crisp bass-to-midrange neutrality reveals driving amp's exact sonic character


Associated Equipment for this Review:
Amplifier: Marantz MR-235
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): Dynaco PAT-4
Sources (CDP/Turntable): Denon DCM-450 cd player; Yamaha P-07 turntable
Speakers: Celestion Vintage 30s
Cables/Interconnects: Radio Shack Monster Cable
Music Used (Genre/Selections): Bop to Pop to Hip-Hop, plus Blues-N-Beyond, Rock-N-Rhythm Archives
Room Size (LxWxH): 10 x 10 x 10
Time Period/Length of Audition: Quarter Century plus
Type of Audition/Review: Product Owner




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Topic - REVIEW: Utah Cadence Speakers - FRG7SWL 20:57:12 02/22/04 ( 2)