dizzy wrote:
On 21 Jun 2005 17:01:11 -0700,
wrote:
Idiot. Technology has changed.
The basics haven't changed, the implementations have
improved.
Utter nonsense. Ferrite magnet technology has been
available
since the early 1950's.
Agreed.
Manufacturers had substantially larger
magnet assemblies, specifically, larger Bl products since
the early 50's.
Agreed.
The technology WAS there. You just don't know it.
Utter nonsense. Speaker technology hasn't changed, huh?
Speaker technology has been considerably refined since the
60s, but old boxes like the AR3 and AR5 differ from modern
products primarily in the details.
How about amplifiers?
Solid state made building really good, really powerful amps
a very low cost proposition.
However, there's a reason why many of us would pronounce
"Magnavox" as maggotbox, back in the day of. The brown good
boxes that the OP described were really horriffic-sounding.
Perhaps you had to be there. In the late 60s my after-in-law
proudly showed me his $400 Magnavox console. I spent about
the same money on Dynakits and AR. Vastly different audible
results to say the least.