Modern speakers vs Vintage speakers

[morricab]

I used to use Silbatone 300b amp for Lanshe 4.1 in small listeing space ( 16 ft wide 25 ft long 10 ft high).

But after moving to larger listening space, Siilbatone does not have enough power to drive it.

Now I setteled with Line Magnetic 508 fitted with Nos tubes.

I had been using Lansche for 16 years so far since I enjoy pristine treble out of plasma tweeter.

Lansche also goes deep and pretty dynamic due to two 10 inch actively driven woofers per side.


The only thing that I expect from vintage audio is somewhat more natural reverberration out of classical box.

I could be happy with Altec A7 or maybe not.

Nice. I would love to hear the 4.1 because it is using the same Supravox driver as a midrange as I use in my DIY horn project. I had a customer back when I was a KR Audio dealer that had a predecessor to the Lansche Cubus. It was called the Goa. Interestingly, it had an outboard active crossover (made by Lansche) between the built-in dual 12 inch subs and the rest of the speaker, which was a high sensitivty mid-bass coupler, a horn loaded midrange and, of course, an ion tweeter. He ran it with two KR Audio Kronzilla stereo amps...one for the bass and one for the rest. Sounded really awesome.

 

[ddk]

The only thing that I expect from vintage audio is somewhat more natural reverberration out of classical box.

You should have higher and can definitely raise your expectations quite a bit if you have the right electronics. Vintage doesn’t mean limited!

I could be happy with Altec A7 or maybe not.

Hard to beat if in proper condition!

 

[thomask]

You should higher and can definitely raise your expectations quite a bit if you have the right electronics. Vintage doesn’t mean limited!

Hard to beat if in proper condition!

I hope so1

Altch A800 sounds pretty nice in Korea.

 

[bonzo75]

I hope so1

Altch A800 sounds pretty nice in Korea.

what's the size of the room? An A7 gets out of horn loading pretty early in the bass, an A5 is slightly later but ideally you want to go up to 817 so that you can have two woofers. But you need a bigger room

 

[thomask]

what's the size of the room? An A7 gets out of horn loading pretty early in the bass, an A5 is slightly later but ideally you want to go up to 817 so that you can have two woofers. But you need a bigger room

I am going to use my linving room open to kitchen on the second floor

25 ft wide 40 ft long 25ft high with open attic to the third floor.

A800 sounds nice in big open space with just one 15 inch woofer.

 

[bonzo75]

I am going to use my linving room open to kitchen on second floor

25 ft wide 40 ft deep 30ft high with open to third floor.

wow that's big

 

[thomask]

wow that's big

I may be able to set up big Western horn system in my secnd floor if I get one.

 

[Solypsa]

25 ft wide 40 ft long 25ft high with open attic to the third floor.

What a grand space. Seems like a big multi-cell horn in that room would be awesome!

 

[Addicted to hifi]

I am going to use my linving room open to kitchen on the second floor

25 ft wide 40 ft long 25ft high with open attic to the third floor.

A800 sounds nice in big open space with just one 15 inch woofer.

That room is nearly the size of my house.

 

[thomask]

Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.

I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.

The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.

He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.

But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.

He was playing some music through it to show it is working fine.



It is good to have elevator to carry heavy speakers or amplifiers. The previous owner of this house was M.D. who built small elevator for ER use.



My main listeing room is located in attic space of third floor. But this Altec A7 is too big for the space. Thus I will set it up on the second floor.

I will use Silbatone 300B SET fitted with Western Electric 300b made in 1940's. The source will be EMMLac Dac2 and Jay's audio CDT2 or Cocktail Audio X30.

After fully setting it up, I will give my impression of it.

 

[the sound of Tao]

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Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.

I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.

The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.

He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.

But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.

He wa playing some music through it to show it is working fine.

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It is good to have elevator to carry heavy speakers or amplifiers. The previous owner of this house was M.D. who built small elevator for ER use.

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My main listeing room is loated in attic space of third floor. But this Altec A7 is too big for the space. I will use Silbatone 300B SET fitted with Western Electric 300b made in 1940's. The source will be EMMLac Dac2 and Jay's audio CDT2 or Cocktail Audio X30.

After fully setting it up, I will give impression of it.

You are a man of action Thomas! Awesome. Very exciting project under way and looking forwards to seeing it all unfold. Hopefully later even with videos to help us enjoy the evolution of your adventure even more at a distance. What a great move

 

[Argonaut]

Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.

I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.

The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.

He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.

But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.

He was playing some music through it to show it is working fine.

I wonder at the point where it may dawn upon your benefactor the enormity of the error in judgment that he has just made...

 

[Addicted to hifi]

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Yesterday, I crossed US Canadian border to pick up Altec A7 speakers located in West Vancouver.

I borrowed my friend's truck since I can carry only one of it with my Suv.

The owner has a beatiful house looking over Vancouver downtown and bay.

He picked it up about 15 years ago from church.

But after renovation of his house, he plan to switch to modern speaker.

He was playing some music through it to show it is working fine.

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It is good to have elevator to carry heavy speakers or amplifiers. The previous owner of this house was M.D. who built small elevator for ER use.

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My main listeing room is loated in attic space of third floor. But this Altec A7 is too big for the space. Thus I will set it up on the second floor.

I will use Silbatone 300B SET fitted with Western Electric 300b made in 1940's. The source will be EMMLac Dac2 and Jay's audio CDT2 or Cocktail Audio X30.

After fully setting it up, I will give my impression of it.

This is great stuff and would love to hear These speakers.

 

[thomask]

You are a man of action Thomas! Awesome. Very exciting project under way and looking forwards to seeing it all unfold. Hopefully later even with videos to help us enjoy the evolution of your adventure even more at a distance. What a great move

I wonder at the point where it may dawn upon your benefactor the enormity of the error in judgment that he has just made...

He did not appear to be serious audiophile although he had used Mckintosh amp to drive ti.

The critical thing is WAF.

His wife does not want to keep old speaker in living room after full renovation.

 

[LL21]

Spectacular! Congrats, ThomasK...very much look forward to reading all about it.

 

[Argonaut]

His wife does not want to keep old speaker in living room after full renovation.

She is kicking him out

 

[thomask]

You are a man of action Thomas! Awesome. Very exciting project under way and looking forwards to seeing it all unfold. Hopefully later even with videos to help us enjoy the evolution of your adventure even more at a distance. What a great move

Thanks a lot for your compliment.

My listeing room on the third floor used to be tidy( 4 years ago). But it is now too clowded with no more room for Altec A7;

 

[thomask]

She is kicking him out

My wife would not want to keep this one in the living room.

She is away to take care of her ailing mother now.

If she is back, I may need to prepare gift for her

 

[Solypsa]

Candles, favorite beverage, slow dance to the Altecs...she will decide they are the best thing ever

 

[Addicted to hifi]

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Thanks a lot for your compliment.

My listeing room on the third floor used to be tidy( 4 years ago). But it is now too clowded with no more room for Altec A7;

Love the design of the house as well as the beautiful system.