Revox Agora B. Tri-amped Speakers. Any opinions?

Just out of curiosity for audacious (and old) hardwa

Does anyone have a first hand experience of these speakers?
Do you know what is the difference (if any) between the "Agora B" and
the "Agora B, Mark II"?

Revox, incidentally, continues to make speakers www.revox.de some of
them fully active, multi-amped, and certainly very expensive. For some
reason this production goes largely unnoticed.

When I was very young, I really admired the sound of and look of Tandberg
equipment, but shortly after they released their monoblocks, they went poof
in the US audio market.

Can anyone explan this phenomenon?

As far as I could tell they had everything going for them.

Thanks!


Erik

"Erik Squires" said:

When I was very young, I really admired the sound of and look of Tandberg
equipment, but shortly after they released their monoblocks, they went poof
in the US audio market.

Can anyone explan this phenomenon?

As far as I could tell they had everything going for them.

Well, for one thing, they're a Norwegian company.
Tandberg has a long history of making tapedecks, electronics came
later in the '70s.
Many of their tapedecks were exported to the US, when there apparently
wasn't much competition for them.
All of this changed later, and I think they simply couldn't compete
with the many US brands that are available.

Too bad indeed, they made some cool gear.

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Sander deWaal
Vacuum Audio Consultancy

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When I was very young, I really admired the sound of and look of
Tandberg equipment, but shortly after they released their monoblocks,
they went poof in the US audio market.

Can anyone explan this phenomenon?

Tandberg was very sucessful in a low-volume way for many years with their
high-performance open-reel recorders. They made a evolutionary series of
recorders with a unique easy-to-use mechanical joystick mechanisms. Their
equipment was relatively small for what it was, and tastefully-designed.

When the Japanese flooded the market with really pretty good open reel
recorders, Tandberg had new competition. The Japanese eventually developed
solenoid-operated mechanisms. They had a lot of flash and glitter with lots
of polished metal, heavy cast chassis, and really pretty good performance.
They had vast development, manufacturing, distribution, service, sales and
marketing organizations behind them. The audio business itself changed, when
appliance stores set up their own audio salons, and audio moved out of
specialty stores into the mainstream.

Some place along the way the audio cassette became the mainstream product
and Tandberg had to redesign from scratch. When the market broadened, they
couldn't keep up.

As far as I could tell they had everything going for them.

They were trying to compete way out of their league.