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Has anyone heard of these obcsure speakers from the Eastern Block? My Dad purchased a pair, back in the mid-to-late-seventies and from what I remember listening, they were multiple drivers enclosed in a furniture-grade, large bookshelf box. The sound was hardly memorable. They sounded like Bose 901s with weak bass. My dad dropped them from a four-foot shelf to concrete and crunched the corner pretty bad. He glued it back together and later sold them to someone at work. The next day or so, he bought a pair (gasp!) of Bose 901s. Back in the Primordial age, I regret not nagging him to purchase a set of double Advents instead.
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Had a montitor-sized pair I imported from England myself. Very good, taut-sounding speakers similar to LS3/5a but without the mid-bass hump. Solid build.
The comppany had a somewhat varied life in the US. It ranged from botl accessories to some very interesting mid-level items and went from a Philmore type company towards a speciality house with speakers back to a broader based offering. I do remember some of their European speakers that were similar to offerings from the smaller Philips, Telefunken and Grundigs. In some ways these companies had better true bookshelf speakers than the Americans who offered offered small speakers that were advertised as bookshlf units but in reality needed to be away from walls to sound their best.
I remember Videoton speakers from Hungary, but the ones I remember were small, and the two drivers, a 4- or 5-inch woofer and a large diameter cone tweeter, nearly covered the entire baffleboard. I have a review of those in some stereo magazine I have around here but I don't recall which magazine. Given the design and the country of origin they were something of an oddity, but they sounded pretty good as I recall the review.
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