Hi rlawry, recently I’ve decided to listen and own the origins of high end audio to expand my knowledge of audio, Lord knows I’ve got experience with the latest and greatest equipment, so I decided to do the blast from the past thing, so I picked up some Altec Lansing 892a mandera speaker’s, two way studio monitors, I’m useing magico q3 speaker’s as shelf’s for the speaker’s, useing the furutech gtx-rhodium outlet’s, although on my modern system I have the new NCF furutech gtx-rhodium outlet’s on that system, also, on the mandera speaker’s I’m useing shunata anaconda speaker cable’s and interconnect’s on a Rega osiris integrated amp, with the modright oppo 95 that has the tubed out board power supply, the oppo unit has two 6sn7 tubes coming out the top of the unit, I done a series of speaker placement test, as it turns out, the speaker’s are to be used on their side’s with woofer’s on the inside of the sound stage, now remember, there is the magico q3 speaker’s under the mandera speaker’s, so I fully understand what mid-range sounds like, the outcome of the evaluation was that these vintage speaker’s are magical!, seems they cross over at 3khz, nearly all the sound is coming out the 10inch driver, these speaker’s also have a 5inch or so horn, they really don’t have much bass,but oh boy do they do musical right!, likely one of the best mid-range sound ever, they have no brightness, the speaker’s have a switch on the back that to my surprise, works well, the switch is as follows, normal, -3 db, -6 db., it seems this sounded so good, I’m going to pick up the sherwood 7100 receiver made in USA circa 1973 this coming weekend , the Alec Lansing 892a mandera are circa 1968!, I’m not sure why something is wrong with art dudley liking vintage equipment, is this stuff extreme transparent, the last word in frequency extension in both directions, holographic as modern systems, of course not, but musical with mid-range at this point just kicked the crap out the magico q3 speaker’s! 😎
