[R-390] New favorite listening speaker

[Richard Loken]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Tim Shoppa wrote:

> By comparison my metal bookshelf speakers (old Minimus 8's) no longer
> sound very good at all. The EV4's are not as sensitive as the Minimus 8's
> but the 390A's output stage can do a pretty good job of driving them.

I am not terribly surprised, the Minimus 8 is a very small speaker and an
accoustic suspension to boot so I think it is remarkable that R390 has
enough jam to drive it as well as you claim.

The EV4 will have do until you can find an Altec 604 in a full sized base
reflex enclosure.  Actually, setting aside all levity, I had access to just
such a speaker at one time and it sounded wonderful even when it was 
commected to a 100mW transister radio.

Nice report.  I will try finding a nice big HiFi speaker for my R390A in
the unlikely event that I ever get around to restoring the darn thing.

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