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.
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
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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?
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But how do they sound? hopefully not the way they look!
XPL 200's w DX1, XPL 160's, XPL 140's, L7's, L5's, L3's, L1's Homemade L Center, 4412's, 4406, L60T's, L20T's
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 ...
2ch: WiiM Pro; Topping E30 II DAC; Oppo, Acurus RL-11, Acurus A200, JBL Dynamics Project - Offline: L212-TwinStack, VonSchweikert VR-4
7: TIVO, Oppo BDP103D, B&K, 2pr UREI 809A, TF600, JBL B460
I knew I should have passed on my L250s. For the essentially the same price I could have had those.
They are "mirror-imaged"!
At least one part right on these.
I hope they don't sound as ugly as they look!
Ron
JBL Pro for home use!
I think they go perfectly with her hair...
Hey, don't be dissing my girlfriend! Although a remarkable resemblance.
XPL 200's w DX1, XPL 160's, XPL 140's, L7's, L5's, L3's, L1's Homemade L Center, 4412's, 4406, L60T's, L20T's
way out of my league.
i'd have to settle for these -
http://www.philips.co.uk/c/audio-sys...A9.app101-drp3
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