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I met John when he was in the Canberra part of his sojourn here in Aussie

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Timbo in Oz

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In Reply to: John Dunlavy's (1929-2007[Jan] ) quiet passing posted by PeAK on March 12, 2007 at 16:41:51:

I LIKED John, a LOT!
I watched him once squirting tiny amounts of silicon fluid into those Audax cone-domes they used in the then PCL30's? which became the huge PCL100's when you added two bass bins with a 15? per side - top and bottom of a PCL30!!!!
The 30's had a deep notch in the front baffle with a shallow strip that held the tweeter and the two 6.5's were on either side of the sloped baffles that formed the notch.
He "respected" the Audiosphere Model 3's that I still have. Gave a talk to our audio society here way back then.

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Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'

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Re: Audisphere speakers... - PeAK 21:11:30 03/16/07 (3)
Could you post a pic of your Audiosphere speakers?
- easier if you just go to this site which hosts stuff - Timbo in Oz 21:15:38 03/16/07 (2)
  http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm
  Warmest
  Timbo in Oz
  The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
  And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
  'Still not saluting.'
  - some old photographs of Timbo's system (Open in New Window)
  - Re: Audiosphere cousins - PeAK 08:33:55 03/17/07 (1)
    Audiosphere made the classic "Boom Box" based in Toronto, Canada
    
    ...do you see a family resemblance in your "Aussie" counterpart...
    - Audiosphere speakers (Open in New Window)
    - no! entirely different, not a box, and dead! too. - Timbo in Oz 12:17:48 03/17/07 (0)
      the shared name is mere coincidence.
      The spheres just don't sound like boxes at all!
      They image like mini-monitors only better! Like a quad 57 with bass slam. The 3rd order final HP slope for the dome tweeter starts at 1st order, and then goes to 3rd due to a notch on Fs! Sounded far better with the notch. Dunlavy used to notch his tweeters too!
      All the caps were MF polycarbs.
      
      Warmest
      Timbo in Oz
      The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
      And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
      'Still not saluting.'

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