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I don't know that these are "high end" but they are not garden-variety for
sure and rec.audio doesn't have a lot of discussion. In the late 70s Technics started making speakers with a "linear phase array" design wherein the transducers were staggered so that all their coils were lined up in the vertical plane. This led to a number of unique speaker styles, many of which never had much of an impact in North America judging by how rarely I have ever seen them around. There were two main styles: a "boxes" style where the mid-range and high-range transducers were simply enclosed in boxes stacked atop the woofer enclosure, and a "horns" style where the mid-range and high-range transducers were fronted with horns. The latter style had rosewood-veneered woofer enclosures, and if you were a US serviceman living in Germany you could get them with drab-olive enclosures. A few of these speakers made it into my little city in the middle of the Canadian prairies (Edmonton Alberta) and I have a pair. Apart from being good speakers they are unique furniture pieces, with rosewood veneer woofer enclosures and dark fabric covers, and two charcoal-grey horns on top of the enclosure. I don't know about the other models, but mine have separate amp inputs for woofer, mid-range and tweeter so I could have a stack of 6 mono amps running the pair. (A Quad 405 does a good enough job for me). There's not a lot about them on the web, but here are some links to pictures: like mine: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/tanabeck/top/audio15.html (2nd picture) with lighter fabric: http://measurements.hi-fi.ru/gallery...0s/sb-e200.jpg a visual timeline (start half-way down the page starting with the SB-4500): http://measurements.hi-fi.ru/gallery...ics/ls70s.html I've only ever met two other people in 25+ years who recognized them, and even had a pair. One was a friend who had both the boxy and horned styles and got me interested in the other pair that was in town. I've lugged them through a dozen moves or more and always wonder why until I unpack them and fire them up again. Anyone out there still running a pair (or more)? |
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Jerome wrote:
Snip a visual timeline (start half-way down the page starting with the SB-4500): http://measurements.hi-fi.ru/gallery...ics/ls70s.html Intersting, but I don't see the SB-4500a's there. The "a" models had the beveled tweeter enclosure like the SB-5000 pictured just below the 4500's. I've only ever met two other people in 25+ years who recognized them, and even had a pair. One was a friend who had both the boxy and horned styles and got me interested in the other pair that was in town. I've lugged them through a dozen moves or more and always wonder why until I unpack them and fire them up again. Anyone out there still running a pair (or more)? I ran the SB-4500's for about 10 - 11 years, until 1987 when I switched for a pair of B&W DM-1600's (which I still have - along with 4 other pairs of B&W's strewn about - in my office). The friend I sold the SB-4500's to is still using them, and still loves them. Keith Hughes |
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I own a pair of these little beasts and LOVE LOVE LOVE them a whole bunch of a lot!
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