Hey, I'm Famous!!!

[louped garouv]

these may qual for the prized "Kabuki" designation ?

saw a pair today in GW ....real beauties ..

I'm gonna let you guess the famous manufacturer

dbx?

[SEAWOLF97]

dbx?

good guess, but no ....those are Harman Kardon .(but I've flushed the mod num from memory).

something with a 250 in it.

[vinoman]

I realize I am a bit late to this one, and also now that this is an all Altec site, but in defense of my Pioneer CS-901A speakers that I routinely use and love, I was going to make a comment about their Kabuki nature. I was told the center woofer with the coax tweeter was copied from Altec. That seems likely.
I got my 2 pair of these speakers with a nice quad setup (Pioneer QX-949, turntable, reel to reel, etc) from an auction years ago. I knew nothing about it and jumped in head first. I discovered that the woofers made no bass and did not move. I took one to a vintage stereo guy in Tulsa, OK and he said they were worth repairing. I didn't know this was possible. So he removed the coax speaker and 15" cones. Disassembled and freed up the magnets and reassembled. Worked great.
One incorrect comment I saw earlier was that these had small magnets. Not mine, at least. Quite massive magnets on these 15" speakers. I have seen much smaller on other ones of this size. They produce the bass. I sit 11 feet back from them and the spatial thing with the coax does not bother me. Used in a home theater/music set up.
One other interesting thing I discovered was that when I tried to drive these with a new (2002) JVC unit that had "100" watts per channel, etc. Nice unit. They produced almost no bass, even with bass set at max. But when I connect these same speakers up to my vintage 1973 Pioneer QX-949 with a loudness button and bass control turned up, they rock the house down with ease. I have long pondered why my new unit cannot drive these 15" woofers. I think the answer is either capacitor sizes in the amps output stage or just more db gain in the bass circuits.
I am no expert on vintage speakers, just a happy user. I don't own, nor have used many other brands. Just my 2 cents to add.

[HCSGuy]

I was at Costco this afternoon, and saw these. Gotta love a name like "Giga Sound System". Yes, there are lights in, I think, all the drivers, different colors, that blink to the beat. Also has peak power of 2,560 watts - that's right, not just 2,500, but 2,560! Sadly, my wife turned me down

[DavidF]

I was at Costco this afternoon, and saw these. Gotta love a name like "Giga Sound System". Yes, there are lights in, I think, all the drivers, different colors, that blink to the beat. Also has peak power of 2,560 watts - that's right, not just 2,500, but 2,560! Sadly, my wife turned me down

Hmmm, only three drivers. But, very shiny and has Bluetooth!!

[Mr. Widget]

Not really Kabuki, but certainly in amazingly poor taste! Even more amazing is the price tag. Who would pay $1300 for such a visual assault?


Widget

[gferrell]

But how do they sound? hopefully not the way they look!

[fpitas]

Not really Kabuki, but certainly in amazingly poor taste! Even more amazing is the price tag. Who would pay $1300 for such a visual assault?


Widget

12 year olds with a lot of disposable income.

[hjames]

12 year olds with a lot of disposable income.

Adults with the audio knowledge of a 12 year old!

Shiney, and with lots of blinken lights!

Here we go back to The Marching Morons (C.M. Kornbluth) again ...

[Greg86z28]

I knew I should have passed on my L250s. For the essentially the same price I could have had those.

[spkrman57]

They are "mirror-imaged"!

At least one part right on these.

I hope they don't sound as ugly as they look!

Ron

[4313B]

I think they go perfectly with her hair...

[gferrell]

Hey, don't be dissing my girlfriend! Although a remarkable resemblance.

[tomt]

I was at Costco this afternoon, and ...

way out of my league.


i'd have to settle for these -











http://www.philips.co.uk/c/audio-sys...A9.app101-drp3

[Don C]