Very nice - what do u drive them with? this thread is inspiring me to set up my 90s rig again (with a digital streaming front end).The KEF 105.2. Rolling pounding very smooth bass response with matched tweeters and driver arrayed for best imaging. Great midrange and the tweeters are smooth but sharp and clear.
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When I sold gear I sold them and had them in the demo room 24/7/365. They sold very well and then after when I became a tech I requested to be a KEF service depot and was granted the contract and repaired KEF under warranty and got to service all the gear. I requested matched drivers from the KEF factory for a special project I took on for a transmission line tower with the 107.2 tweeters and the midranges using the KEF flat honeycomb racetrack woofers. KEF was gracious enough to me that they indeed sold me the factory matched drivers and I made the active crossover transmission line design tower speakers. Great company and in the 24 years of working with KEF I have not a bad thing to say and in fact I have many very good things to say.Very nice - what do u drive them with? this thread is inspiring me to set up my 90s rig again (with a digital streaming front end).
I fondly remember my E-V Interface "A" speakers
Very unusual woofer design.An interesting speaker for sure. Never heard a pair, but I bet they sounded pretty good. Love the active EQ.
Unlike Bose's, the E-V box implemented a sensibly mild boost around 50 Hz that designer Ray Newman said was calculated using a little-known aspect of the (then rather novel) T-S equations. The circuitry was pretty straightforward.An interesting speaker for sure. Never heard a pair, but I bet they sounded pretty good. Love the active EQ.
The larger cone belongs to the 11 inch passive radiator. The cylinder in the middle is a motion-damping weight.Very unusual woofer design.
Ahhhh. Doth seeith now. Cool.The larger cone belongs to the 11 inch passive radiator. The cylinder in the middle is a motion-damping weight.
The KEF 105.2. Rolling pounding very smooth bass response with matched tweeters and driver arrayed for best imaging. Great midrange and the tweeters are smooth but sharp and clear.
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Yes, I was not taken aback upon first listen but over the years of experiencing them I learned to enjoy them and realized they play anything and sound great. What is it called when the tweeter center, midrange and woofers are staggered like the Reference Series does? I forget.Those are the speakers I grew up listening to. No surprise, I came out of it an audiophile.
Do I recall them being called "time aligned"?Yes, I was not taken aback upon first listen but over the years of experiencing them I learned to enjoy them and realized they play anything and sound great. What is it called when the tweeter center, midrange and woofers are staggered like the Reference Series does? I forget.
Yes, I think that is it.Do I recall them being called "time aligned"?
Woh, that's kind of a wall of sound !My VMPS Supertower III SE/R. All woofers restored, all Focal T120's restored.
When we take a look at the performance of the speakers Kef still do these days, it's sure it's a great company.When I sold gear I sold them and had them in the demo room 24/7/365. They sold very well and then after when I became a tech I requested to be a KEF service depot and was granted the contract and repaired KEF under warranty and got to service all the gear. I requested matched drivers from the KEF factory for a special project I took on for a transmission line tower with the 107.2 tweeters and the midranges using the KEF flat honeycomb racetrack woofers. KEF was gracious enough to me that they indeed sold me the factory matched drivers and I made the active crossover transmission line design tower speakers. Great company and in the 24 years of working with KEF I have not a bad thing to say and in fact I have many very good things to say.
The KEF 105.2 and 107.2 work well with midfi amps but they really excel with very high power high current drive. They really come alive and the bass gets down and deep with detailed imaging, sizzling horns and metallic sounding drum brass. Wonderful speakers to listen to for several+ hours at a time.
TLDR but seeing the post title my first response is I only have experience with half that timeline....but my step-grandfather haad experience almost a century old.Altough i rate new speakers like the ones from Neumann high, i still love vintage speakers also, with their quirks and so. I have these old 1976 Goodman Mezzo SL speakers (grills are removed for inspection) that i use from time to time and they are so good sounding i should use them more. And even after 47 years of age, they are still technically mint (and still decent looking). I only recapped the crossover and replaced the resistor in it also about 5 years ago as the elco's were dried out. New caps are non polar elco's (Mundorf because i could get them cheap and easy), and the resistor is a simple jantzen ceramic one... And i rate these far above a lot of modern ones while i paid (long time ago) about 50€ for them...
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What are the speaker from the past (pre 2000) that you still love?