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Can anyone provide information on these? A friend has them (not for sale) and they work well on my vintage tube gear. I saw somewhere where someone cloned them. I am also curious about what drivers they used.
Thank you
Al
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They were designed by Dick Olsher (he called them the Poly Natalia).
More info available at his page - he's released the design to the public domain.
I just ended up buying a pair of Swan Allures for about 2 grand with shipping costs. I have yet to hook them up. It's going to be either great or a costly nightmare.
The Swan Allures proved to be a great deal at 2K, sounds fantastic! Hooked up to a Sherbourn amp, Sherbourn Preamp and a Xindak Muse Deluxe tube CD player
Ah man nice pickup. I have only heard the Allures one time and that was in 1995. Always liked how they sounded and looked.
I love the Swan Allures and they work famously with vintage tube gear. From what I read it looks like the drivers are made of unobtanium.
I thought that this might be a $1k project with known results. Now it is a $3k project with unknown results and fugly enclosures.
Thank you for the info and link.
It looks like when you crank up the gain some expensive damage can result.
Their hase to be a 93 to 95 DB tube friendly speaker I would like.
Thanks
Al
I'm sure you've had access to many different systems.
Scott
Hi Scott, thank you for asking.
JBL's and Altecs are not where I am trying to go but I would like 93 to 95 db.
Over the years I have enjoyed listening to but not owned all:
Magnaplanar tympany
Quads
Beverages
Dahlquist DQ10
Wilson Grand Slam
Hill Plasmatronics
What I am looking for and not looking for:
Price
No horns
Efficiency
Roughly 115 Max DB output
Smooth highs and mids
Good bass extension to 25 hz, tightnes and detail
Easy load for tubes to drive
No biting metalic sounding highs but extension to at least 18k.
Work well within 3' or less from the wall
Flat response
Very low distortion
Absence of cabinet resonances
Time alignment
Compatability with Jazz, Big band and R&R
At at 59 I still have my high frequency response strong past 15K.
Yes I know get a job at the music hall.
I only met you once any you were lisening to a nice little two way with the Eico.
Well then...Sounds like you enjoy HiFI speakers. Yes? But most HiFi speakers are only 84-88DB sens and can be hard on the current draw too.
Maybe we’re both on the same quest. I tried the “musical” speakers (fullrange) and they are nice but missing something. I’m always afraid they’ll burn out or they yack with those guitars that use the soap bar pickups.
I’ve tried the prosound woofers but the modern models have very tight suspensions and still need some power to open up. I could never get a 15 to horn to sound good either.
The big ass theater setups sound great but I don’t have the space or want to spend the money to do it right.
The 6 or 8” two ways are nice too but they just don’t have the punch with an upright bass or classic jazz drum kit. That 50s jazz was recorded so nice it deserves a few watts and likes some cablouie.
For the last few years I’ve been liking a hybrid approach and been using either a JBL 2118J or Audax PRO170MO for mids 200(400)-3K same concepts as a home hifi 6 or 8. The Vifa H26TG35 fits nice with those for a HiFi tweeter sound. You can go with the big buck prosounds here too. I’ve also discovered I like loose suspension 15s in either big BRs or true acoustic suspensions. Although the AS designs fall off at 60hz or so and need subwoofers.
Take a look at the.
Westlake LC 3w12vf
Audio Classics
And Duke, a member here, has a two way that always struck me as being well designed and that’ll need a sub too.
Anyway, a nice three way maybe what the doctor ordered.
Scott
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