[Vintage-Audio] Re Speakers From Yesteryear

Fri Jul 12 23:15:00 2002

Hi Duane,

The answer to your query is. It varied.

I managed the first complete stereo demonstration room in America, complete 
with patch board and the ultimate variety in equipment. Everything from 
Harmon Kardon to McIntosh; Electro-Voice to BIG BIG Bozaks.

After listening for a couple of years I found the ultimate setup to be a 
Thorens turntable with a wooden arm Grado and Grado cartridge fed into a Mac 
C-20 pre-amp, into a Mac M-240 amplifier, feeding a pair of Altec Lansing 
'Voice of the Theater' loudspeakers in raw black plywood (no grill cloth, it 
dampened them too much).  

We had every loudspeaker manufactured in the room and some were quite good. 
Burt, none of them had the presence of the Altecs.

We even had the seven foot high Electro-Voice cabinets with eighteen inch 
woofers I think they called them the "Princess," but, the response was too 
soft and rubbery to properly reproduce crisp guitar and piano.

We used to play the 1812 overture a lot, but my favorite listening music was 
the Oscar Peterson Trio, with a little Pete Fountain thrown in from time to 
time.

Ah, those were the days. Ya got me droolin' again, Duane.

CUL es 73 de Ron K  --  W1ARS