Speaker Porn

[skullguise]

I had recently posted on FB about a visit to an Audio store where I heard a system approaching $500K list price.  A hometown friend pinged me and - among other things - said he has a friend/classmate (Princeton I'd assume) who "runs Oswald Mills Audio."

Maybe you can get a friend-of-friend-of-friend discount 🤣

Edited October 21 by skullguise

[Knuckledragger]

Edited October 21 by Knuckledragger

[Jon L]

I got SO lucky with a local listing.  Altec A7-500, and I added the supertweeter.

 

[mikeymad]

I have to admit, when I first saw this, I was like cool. 'Voice of the Theater" ALs. I didn't catch that they were yours. 

Well done!! 

[Jon L]

Removed the grill which removed a "veil" from midrange 😆 and had to rework the crossover and physical alignment of the supertweeter, but yeah, I'm beginning to think the speaker angle was already a solved issue in the 1950's and 60's..

 

 

[HiWire]

Would swapping out the rolling casters with footers improve the sound too?

[GrindingThud]

A few worthy photos from CAF this weekend…

[philodox]

Gorgeous, love horn speakers.

[Grahame]

No 6th floor activity photos?

[Knuckledragger]

A slightly different kind of speaker porn.  In the early 90s I was prone to spacing out and doodling in class, in stead of doing what I was supposed to be doing.  This pattern explains a lot about ...everything that has followed since.  A month or so ago I was going through some of the myriad of paperwork that made it with me from the mainland.  In it I found a really old school notebook.  Most of it was fantastically uninteresting (I have not cared about the Sumerians for 35 years and counting) but I did find one page that had some amusing doodles on it:

We've got a couple cars, an attempt at a Roland TB-303 Bassline, what might be a Marshall half stack and ...two attempts at one very iconic speaker design.  That's a Legacy Audio Whisper.  I was one of the cool kids, I tell you.  

 

[Craig Sawyers]

Imgur are still blocking content to UK viewers. All I see is a blue box with "CONTENT NOT VIEWABLE IN YOUR REGION". Their caps, not mine

Because our on-line regulator Ofcom has decided to sue them under the UK Online Safety Act. Imgur has responded by blocking all Imgur content to people from the UK.

Ho hum.

This is the BBC's article on the Imgur blue screen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

[jamesmking]

My anti virus subscription includes a VPN. Never needed (or used it) until the UK did the online "safety" act.

access via VPN with IP location set to USA works fine for me in the UK...

I'm just waiting for the UK to ban VPNs, strong encryption and storing anything locally - after all if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be worried about the security forces, AI or anything looking at everything all the time... Of course politicians, Royalty, celebrities and rich people will exempt from the this.

[Knuckledragger]

I, ahem, like to sing sea shanties, so I cheerfully pay for Proton VPN.

Don't let the UK government back you into a corner!

Spoiler

See what I did there?  Not if you're in the UK, you didn't.