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Default It Does Not Have to be Expensive....

Once upon a time on usenet wrote:
On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 12:38:17 PM UTC-8, Peter Wieck
wrote:
I was asked to bring a "system" into the office for seasonal music.
Casting about the Radio Room, I came up with:

AR tuner
AR integrated amplifier
Dynaco A35 speakers
Sony 200-disc CD changer
Ramsey FM100B FM-stereo transmitter

This has been playing now since Monday at 7:00 am.

Funny thing about the AR tuner: this is a modern steel-and-glass
building with corrugated decking between floors. The unit is in the
core of the building, perhaps 40' from the nearest window, and the
building core is between it and the local antenna farm. I am using a
simple $2 dipole antenna. It is receiving flawlessly, where no other
radios but for my Zenith RD7000Y are getting anything at all.

I am rebroadcasting on a local open frequency (91.9), and now all
those deaf radios are playing.

The sound is rather good as well. I am surprised at how well the
Dynaco speakers are doing in a large open space. It is also
interesting to note that there are only three people in the office
older than the AR equipment.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA


the a35s were about the best sounding speaker in the line, i just
wish i had bought a pair. i had 2 pair of a25s run stacked
horizontally in parallel electrically. nice impact. coupled with
100wpc spectro acoustics p202, and a philips 1" dome tweeter Xed over
at 10kHz, they produced some very nice sound when EQed down in the
lows a bit to sound natural.

no gyrations like that needed for the a35.



Am I right in thinking that the A35s are a similar speaker to my Goodmans
Mezzo SLs? They use a compliant 10" woofer with rubber surround paired with
a SEAS 1.5" silk dome tweeter with alnico magnet. (The legendary H-087 - a
tweeter that sounds so good that SEAS make an updated version for around a
grand a pair
http://www.seas.no/index.php?option=...6&I temid=498 )
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