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On Monday, December 8, 2014 4:41:40 AM UTC-8, Peter Wieck wrote:
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21:21 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Anyone auditioned these speakers? comments, impressions on their sound? They can be heard on youtube if nowhere else an option- please skip what I know already i.e. youtube's limitations!

ESTG/

a) No, I have not auditioned these speakers.
b) The single most dangerous behavior a potential purchaser of audio equipment might do in their quest is to solicit the opinion of others on equipment they have not heard themselves.
c) Whatever might apply to other-than-transducers applies exponentially to transducers (speakers being one example of such).
d) The second most dangerous behavior one might exhibit is to actually purchase transducers at some sum more than common pocket change without extensive auditioning *IN THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE!*

Point being that no matter how well informed the opinions expressed here might be, they are NOT yours, they DO NOT know your tastes or peculiarities, and making decisions on outside influence will inevitably lead to acute unhappiness.

Which, of course, also applies to the above.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

Back in the early 70s I was a student at Berklee College of Music. There were many people that were more into gear and sound than learning to play music (I thought them pathetic), but one dragged me to a Hot Tuna concert where Alembic did the sound.

That is where I respond to this posting, on infinite baffles.

They had a wall of open air, no baffles JBL 15" powered by Alembic Preamps
(modified Fender design, just much better) and Crown power amps.

The tone was absolutely beautiful, the best I ever heard.

So open back speakers have an absolutely beautiful tone.

Similarly, I had an Ampeg Gemini II, it was a guitar amp with a 15" and an open back. I didn't play loud, I was a jazz bass player, and no bass amps with their ported cabs had the tonal beauty of that open air tube guitar amp.

Can't figure out why I ever sold it, nor remember it.