In Reply to: One Of THE Best Speakers I Ever Heard ! posted by ka7niq on March 21, 2007 at 21:30:05:
They were, of course, beyond my means then, but fortunately so. I never see them on the used market, probably because the plasma tweeter has a limited life span and replacement parts are no longer available. They were, however, blissfully airy in the reproduction of high frequency transients and the sound didn't seem to emanate from the plasma tweeter itself. It was a unique and eerie experience, but short in duration. To this day I wonder if I could have lived with them for long had I been able to take them home. They were cool, futuristic (but 20 years later just plain idiosyncratic as someone in here described them) but they also had a beautiful rosewood finish, just gorgeous.That was my only experience with plasma audio reproduction, and shortly thereafter I'd heard Magnat could no longer sell speakers with the Plasma tweeter because of the design's excessive ozone emissions.
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- Back in the 80's Magnat produced speakers with a plasma tweeter - tpao 15:06:50 03/22/07 (0)