[Vintage-Audio] Vanishing Speakers?

[Salmons, Michael]

Yes, an old pair. They were not in the best shape but I was still very =
impressed, especially by the mids. This person's cabs were not huge but =
did have a folded horn design, so bass was still pretty good. I'm =
interested in making some single driver speakers myself, either getting =
new lowther drivers or possibly waiting to find some vintage =
telefunkens- this fellow with the lowthers also had a pair of enclosures =
with a fairly large (8 inch?) telefunken full-range driver in each and =
they were very nice, with a very sweet midrange. He drove both with a =
couple of little tube power amps, not sure who made them, although we =
also ran then through a late 70's-early 80s 20 watt-or-so solid state =
integrated(a kenwood, I think) and both pair still sounded very nice =
indeed. (program material was some coltrane on LP, plus some ella =
fitzgerald and- yeesh, I cringe when admitting it- Yes. I don't remember =
the deck or phono preamp although it was very likely a denon or linn, =
plus an imported-looking preamp, in the case of the tube amps. a cyrus, =
maybe?)

Of course, this was at least ten years ago and I haven't heard from him =
in ages, so who knows if he still has those... like all good audio =
stories...

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Morgan [mailto:goodguy3@amdiac.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:42 PM
To: vintage-audio@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] Vanishing Speakers?


At 03:27 PM 7/31/02 -0500, Michael wrote:
>  I would also be interested in someone's opinion of lowthers.


Michael,

I, too am interested in Lowthers.

I have corresponded with the fellow at the US distributor and he send me =

email addresses for a few folks who use them. Two replied to my request =
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experience and advice.. they rave about them.

I am searching for someone who will invite me to listen to them here in =
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DC area.  Then I would likely buy the drivers and make the=20
enclosures.  Following the construction of the speakers, I would build =
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push-pull single ended triode amplfiers. I have both the tubes and a =
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of vintage output transformers that are just right for the job.

Have you ever heard any Lowthers?

Roy

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