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In Reply to: Well I gots me a new cell phone today... posted by ElbowGeek on April 23, 2007 at 15:35:47:
So... that's what it is I thought the receiver was made by Radio Shack. The next thing you're going to tell me that the tt was not made by BSR.
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I had an RS-2300 (I think that was the model number). It was actually a very fine, high-end piece of gear, with 60 watts of FET output. Very smooth, powerful sound. Never should have got rid of it, but I'm an idiot by trade so there you go.As for the TT - consider yourself smacked with a thousand wet noodles for even considering that this VPI HW19Jr would slum with the BSRs! Although it could use a bit of a refurb, it's served me extremely well over the years and I won't be in need of upgrading for many a year hence.
An interesting picture in contrasts, both mental as well as physical. The "old" TT which has served for years with solid, reliable service parked right next to an LCD monitor and keyboard which (and be honest here) will most likely not be in-use by 2015 (if not sooner).I'll stop right here before I am forced to climb aboard my Luddite-brand soapbox....
Ergo grex, ergo sum.
However I did hang on to my previous PC for quite some time before upgrading just recently, and not to the very latest by any means. However, I'm not about to fill my office with a Vax system anytime soon ;-)
I have you know Pioneer, Sansui and Technics did manufacture the Radio Shack receivers back then and they re-badge them as their own that’s why most of them especially the expensive ones sounded so sweet.BTW, the best receiver that I’ve owned back in the 70’s was made by Pioneer SX 1280 model which put out about 180 w/c at 8 ohms and 300 at 4 ohms. I traded it for another classic the Sansui AU-999 integrated amp.
Cuz that is one seriously sexy bit of kit. And the RS receiver I was referring to was apparently manufactured by... HH Scott I believe? Or Sherwood - one of those S named companies. Apparently one of the last pieces they manufactured before going completely off the scene. It also had the distinction of being one of the very first pure digital tuners, although on my example it was non functional.
There you go….BTW, the Radio Shack linaeum tweeters was a collector back then…I bet they’re hard to find now the original ones anyway.
They would have incredible stuff mixed in with utter rubbish. Kind of like a Goodwill today - you had to really know what you were looking for. Some people seem to wax poetic about the Mach series of big speakers for instance.That tweeter looks gorgeous, BTW. What was the technology in them?
In a conventional tweeter, a coil of wire suspended between the circular poles of a ring-shaped magnet moves backward and forward according to the dictates of the electrical signal, driving a dome or cone diaphragm to excite the air. In the Linaeum tweeter, there's still a voice-coil, but this time it's flattened into a vertical shape and suspended between opposed rectangular magnet poles. It still moves backward and forward, but instead of driving a diaphragm, it pushes and pulls the vertical joining point of two semi-cylindrical 3"-long sheets of stiff plastic film, each of which is fixed at its other end. Imagine two (empty) beer cans side by side: the point where they touch is where the voice-coil is attached. Under the influence of the electrical signal, the two semi-cylinders rotate back and forth, the resultant traveling waves producing sound.
The advantages over a conventional tweeter are a uniformly wide horizontal dispersion pattern and good linearity, both of which lend the tweeter some of the attributes of a good planar drive-unit. If, as in the LX5, two sets of diaphragms are placed back to back with a common magnet structure, sharing a common voice-coil, those at the rear pull when the front ones push: the radiation pattern is that of a dipole. The radiation to the rear should produce an enhanced feeling of "airiness" to the speakers's sound in all but the very deadest rooms.
According to Linaeum's Ben Stutz, Linaeum assembles the tweeter subassemblies for RadioShack, shipping them to the Far East to be incorporated into the speakers. (The LX5, for example, is made in Malaysia.) The tweeter used in the LX5 differs from that used in Linaeum's own models in using a thicker diaphragm, the result being reduced sensitivity.(Stereophile excerpt)
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