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Altec Lansing Stonehenge III - Some Vintage-Lovers are claiming, the 15 inch- Bass Driver with the coaxially mounted Sectoral Horn and Compression Driver (Model 604-8G) is besides from some exotic Western Electric Constructions of the late 1920´s early 1930´s the best speaker you can get. The Beatles mixed their Abbey Road Album with kind of four of this speakers (Model 605A -one speaker for each Beatle! ;) https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/318/lot/95311):

Altec Lansing 819 A Stonehenge III | Hifi-Wiki

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totti1965 said:
Altec Lansing Stonehenge III - Some Vintage-Lovers are claiming, the 15 inch- Bass Driver with the coaxially mounted Sectoral Horn and Compression Driver (Model 604-8G) is besides from some exotic Western Electric Constructions of the late 1920´s early 1930´s the best speaker you can get. The Beatles mixed their Abbey Road Album with kind of four of this speakers (Model 605A -one speaker for each Beatle! ;) https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/318/lot/95311):

Altec Lansing 819 A Stonehenge III | Hifi-Wiki

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It will never happend but would be interesting.
I have just restored a pair of Altec 606 with 604C within and although not precisely high fidelity but very fun.
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Tryphon said:
It will never happend but would be interesting.
I have just restored a pair of Altec 606 with 604C within and although not precisely high fidelity but very fun.
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Such a beautyful work! Congratulation!
Every time I visit my friend Peter in Cologne who has even larger 604 Speakes with 300 liters of volume, I ask myself, what we have learned in the last 70, 80, 90 years!
To my ears -these vintage speakers sound more immersive, more intense, simply better than todays speakers.
Perhaps it has something to do with the extremely high efficiency of these old constructions: Western Electric, Siemens Klangfilm, Altec Lansing, Tannoy, ElectroVoice….you name it.

You only need a single watt of power and you can bulge your apartment from the inside! ;-)
 
Kind of ironic to post this right after the Altecs but maybe the new Kanto ORA 4 once they are more widely available?
 
SunRa said:
Kind of ironic to post this right after the Altecs but maybe the new Kanto ORA 4 once they are more widely available?
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Yeah! Unbelievable good value! Is the sub $ 4 price for a pair or a single speaker?
Anyway: I am in! ;)

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Kind of ironic to post this right after the Altecs but maybe the new Kanto ORA 4 once they are more widely available?
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If you are searching for an increadible speaker for your desktop, I can strongly recommend the
Magnat Monitor Active 2000 (EUR 240,—/ pair)


There is also a version out there with hdmi for about EUR 300,—/ pair

www.md-sound.de

Magnat Monitor Reference 3A - Bluetooth - HDMI - Neu, 298,00 €

MAGNAT Monitor Reference 3A ++ die Alternative zur Soundbar +++ Aktiv Bluetooth Phono HDMI Paar | Neu bei MD-Sound
www.md-sound.de www.md-sound.de

These speakers are developed by using the Klippel System.

I Purchased one pair for my son, 18 month ago, and struggled to give them to him for his desktop, because they were so overwhelmingly good, that I used them 6 weeks for testing and testing and testing…..
My heard really bleeds at the moment I handed them over.
It’s real HiFi!
Once the guy with the Altec / Single Ended Tubes System (Peter) visits me and hence his HiFi system is so much better than mine, he normally can’t stand to listen more than 5 or 10 minutes with my speakers…..
At the day when I included the Monitor Active 3000 into my system he visits me, and we listend to this speakers from 7.30 pm to midnight!
There can’t be a bigger compliment. BBC LS 5/3 Killer!
Hope, you live in Europe!
 
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+1 vote for Q11 Meta.

Seeing as there is already a review of the R11 Meta, a comparison to the Q11 Meta would be very interesting. I'm hoping they are a poor man's R11.
 
Monitor Audio Bronze 100 and Cerwin Vega LA165
 
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totti1965 said:
Altec Lansing Stonehenge III - Some Vintage-Lovers are claiming, the 15 inch- Bass Driver with the coaxially mounted Sectoral Horn and Compression Driver (Model 604-8G) is besides from some exotic Western Electric Constructions of the late 1920´s early 1930´s the best speaker you can get. The Beatles mixed their Abbey Road Album with kind of four of this speakers (Model 605A -one speaker for each Beatle! ;) https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/318/lot/95311):

Altec Lansing 819 A Stonehenge III | Hifi-Wiki

www.hifi-wiki.de www.hifi-wiki.de
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They were among the best monitors you would get at that time, yes, but a lot of progress has been made since Abbey Road. I like much this album, I find the sound pretty good for a 1969 pop/rock album, but nowadays you can get much better tools for recording, mixing, mastering, post production.

Ok, these tools are not always properly used, or too often in a too spectacular way (this silly and awful "loudness war" is now raging, among other stupid trends). So yes, the sound engineers and the audio industry ethics and intelligence are not better overall and often worse now, but the blame has not to be put on the technology, but on the involved people themselves.

The mikes, the mixers, the amplfiers, recorders or computerzed recording and mixing tools, and of course the monitoring and mastering speakers, are definitely better now than they used to be in 1969.
 
totti1965 said:
Done!

But the Morel isn’t integrated in the Spinorama database now because of some hardware issues they have.
Hope that Pierre is working on that: We need Equalizing Suggestions also for the Nubert NuVero 60, because it has fantastic in room radiation (85 degrees) and will naturally benefit particularly strongly from equalizing!

Morel Avyra 633 Tower Speaker Review

Morel Avyra 633 Tower Speaker
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I used Morel tweeters on a project and like them a lot.
 
Doenerkunde said:
Just stumbled upon the Wilson Studio 3 (not US Wilson Audio) and think they might perform good: 5 inch woofer with cast basket, waveguided dome tweeter, decent amount of parts on the crossover and they cost only 199€/pc. Promising candidate for a review!

Studio 3 – Wilson

wilson-hifi.eu wilson-hifi.eu

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Yep ! Good find. A well designed and built speaker on a very tight budget. Quite nice, I hope too a review very soon.
 
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