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Being a Russian by birth and inheriting all typical for Russian masochism I sometime visit the High Efficiency Speakers Asylum, laughing me sick tail off. Between the fresks in there patting each other and the mercantile cretins who pose themselv...
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http://www.moviemice.com/we/index.php
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Something strange - but maybe understandable - happens in WE's price list and catalog... have a look... the WE 417A is USD 550 a piece, WE 437A USD 750, but in Web-Order form it's 450, while it's confirmed 417's price-tag, still at USD 550 (both are ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, knowing what I know and understanding why some WE sound in the way they sound I would not expect that you will be able to touch the core of the WE Sound. I know the answers and I know that they are not possib...
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[quote user="be"] Are you thinking of the WE drivers or the setup? If it is the drivers: What exactly are these “sub-acceptable level design decisions”?[/quote] I was talking about the WE entire installations. I am not familiar with WE drivers. I eve...
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I spoke to the owner of the company. The drivers are copies of Western Electric 555 (but the owner insists that they use genuine NOS WE diaphragms membranes) but they can be custom made to fit in with one's requirements. I didn't know such a thing wa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, knowing what I know and understanding why some WE sound in the way they sound I would not expect that you will be able to touch the core of the WE Sound. I know the answers and I know that they are not possib...
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I would agree that the Lowther is not hard to beat but the question is where and in whose mind does this competition exist? Is the Lowther, Manger, or other full range single driver in competition with different multi-driver approaches, other single ...
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It is nice that you report that they “sound fine compared to most of the crap at the show”, whatever it means. I was informed that Silbatone did not do anything original. They used Western Electric 594 and 597 drivers, both low voltage filed coils. ...
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Bass-Horns-for-Ale-Western-Electric-JBL-Altec-Drivers_W0QQitemZ300388291899
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Thanks for all the suggestions. As it happens, there were no exhibitors at the Flemings Hotel this year. But I did pop into the Stax stall before listening to anything else.In general, I was pretty disappointed with what I heard. Most of the ‘convent...
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Thanks, Mani. My comment is about the 1948 Western Electric I generally do not like those types of the speakers. There is a community of people who use those open baffles, insisting that they are the only speakers that decay 6bB per octave under the ...
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Well, it is nothing about trashing. The problem that I see is that you, Joe, do not recognize the architecture solutions that those allegorical house builders implemented in order to satisfy the Cat and get attracted only with the easiness of tha...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
How difficult is it to find 437As good enough for a phonostage? For commercial applications is it a dead tube. WE might produce it again when they stated to redo the tubes but the existence of the Russian 6C45P pretty mu...
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[quote user="Markus"] http://cgi.ebay.com/Bass-Horns-for-Ale-Western-Electric-JBL-Altec-Drivers_W0QQitemZ300388291899[/quote]
I have seen it and I do not like it. I applaud to the efforts but the pictures of horns do not make me aroused. 47 f...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]The Western Electric L-9 in Munich was/is an infinite baffle design. The 754B woofers are in a sealed enclosure with a front horn. There is no possibility of cancellation between front wave and back wave of speaker, so I wou...
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Joe, I think I would battle it.
I would not be so certain. Mostly the SUV sized bass horns are notoriously bad sounding despite of the assurances of the system owners overwhelmed with so common in audio endowment effect. Not to mention that the Stag...
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[quote]There are some evidence that Germans tried ”something: in mid of the 1930. RCA, Western Electric, and many others also tried to do “better” audio during that time[/quote]Apparently Siemens was making stereo recordings in the early '40s already...
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hi wojteki wrote some factorys at alibaba, just for curiousity. will see if i will get some return. price madisound is asking is normal, in germany this speaker cost's more than 1000 euros....there has to be add ship cost, import tax, etc. ...
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I think this is the one w/ the ribbon driver . Seems more innovative than contemporary Western Electric approach. That is the planar driver would not require a phase plug ?Western Electric's mid 1930's phase plug passes sound thru narrow slits and ot...
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Romy,I heard these speakers and I thought they sounded excellent compared to most of the crap at the show. Even better were are pair of original Western Electric 757A two way monitors that were running in the other room. No bass below 50-60HZ, but vo...
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fair enough- you're absolutely right, i didn't!it's difficult to get that perspective on sonics without legitimate guideposts-- even with a lifetime of playing and recording music, it's difficult to know what the parameters of recorded sound ar...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Yes Roman... I feel pretty like I entered a sort of "cul de sac", tube-wise... I contacted, few months ago, Western Electric USA and they told me that, at USD 750 ea. they have "plenty" of N.O.S. WE 437A... I've been ab...
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This time from Germany and this time the pattern is very much the similar to the patterns of any other company that sell electromagnet fro Hi-Fi: the semi-idiotic statements-claims meant to impress uninformed peoples and no credible claims about ...
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I did not read it, I rarely read those types of articles but what you describe is very common and very indicative for those people. They fly like butterflies from a manufacture to a manufacture, from dealer to dealer and from marketing campaign to ma...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Any ideas for sources for 6AK5 and 5651A? Seems like most of the ML2 tubes are "hard to find" from local sources. [/quote]
I do not know why you say it. Both 6AK5 and 5651 are very common and very inexpensive tubes. The 6...
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Well done that man.
The Berning Siegfried. A licenced version is I understand soon to be released by Western Electric, using their 300B....
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this is what western electric used to do with there theater gear way back as far as the 30's i think.this idea makes even more sense in these downward economic times.i can tell you that the high-end industry at the upper levels is vulnerable.thi...
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I go to the Amtrans store a lot but have never listened to the GIPs because they are just too expensive (60k, 180k USD etc). But I think I was informed that these were fanatically replicated Western Electric speaker system concept, but where possible...
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THE ONLY COMPANY THAT HAS ADVANCED THE DESIGN OF A MODERN DRIVER IS JBL,,, GOING FROM THE WESTERN ELECTRIC DESIGN TO THE 375,,376...PRO VERSION 2440,,2441... TO the 2450 types..USEING COHERIENT PHASE PLUG DESIGN TOPOLIGY that unit was adapted to the...
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