What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest?
Just wondering.
One-off Super Big Reds, tri-amped with a one-off electronic crossover, and one-off passive eq units between the Marantz and horns.
Uses two Marantz 170DCs for the four woofers and a Marantz 1180DC for the preamp and horn amp. Cabinets are solid oak with 15.5 cu ft exterior volume. I got these from a recording studio that went out of business.
A meeting of the JBL/Lansing group was held here and everyone agreed these were the best sounding 604s (604E2s) anyone had ever heard. |
@roxy54 , Some of us did. 😄 “When I started the thread, I assumed that everyone would name the brand and model of the speakers, not just the height and weight. I think that makes it much more interesting.” |
Classic Audio T-3.4 Field-Coil powered 24" W x 30"D × 48"T, weighing in at 350 lbs. Best sounding, most dynamic loudspeaker I have ever owned by far. It makes me believe that size does matter in some respects. Monkey coffins just won’t do what these do. I can play these at a lower volume with very satisfying fidelity. And with that, yeah these speakers are like 98db 16Ω with a fairly friendly impedance curve, so they will perform delightfully on just a few watts, but put like a hundred watts to them and there is a sense of better overall control and impact. The razors edge you now face is as amps tend to get bigger and more complicated they tend to not be as tonally pure and airy in their presentation. So with these I have found a sweet spot of running Atma-Sphere MA-1 Mk.3.3 OTLs which produce 140w @8Ω. Single gain stage triodes, and it works quite well. |
