On Mon 10 Aug 2009 07:25:43p, Chemiker told us...

> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:59:21 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Mon 10 Aug 2009 04:24:08p, Chemiker told us...
>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:18:45 -0500, Chemiker
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:21:28 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon 10 Aug 2009 02:00:09p, notbob told us...
>>>>
>>>>>Yes, there are a couple of things I sincerely regret. Another being a
>>>>>mid- 60s vintage McIntosh preamp and power amplifier coupled with a
>>>>>Thorens turntable and Ortophon cartridge. And yes, I've seen the
>>>>>prices on those matched power tubes. :-(
>>>>
>>>>Had a Tandberg deck with one of those Thorens TT's, with the massive
>>>>turntable and the aluminum TT top. Eventually the drive wheels hardened
>>>>and could not be replaced. One day my Harmon-Kardon amp went BANG, and
>>>>that was that. Cartridges were Shure.
>>>
>>> I still have my Leak speakers, the ones with the sand-filled
>>> walls. They're still excellent.
>>>
>>> Alex, who remembers the ElectroVoice 30" woofer.
>>
>>I do!
>>
>>> Trivia: We have Tweeters and Woofers. What was the term used for
>>> mid-range speakers, the term that never caught on?
>>
>>Squawkers...
>
> Full Marks, Wayne!!
>
> Alex

:-)

You're fortunate to still have your Leak speakers. Before stereo, in the
early 1950s, my dad had an Altec Lansing Voice of the Theater in his hi-fi
system. When we moved up to stereo, he moved down in speaker size, feeling
that two of these would be too much for his listening room.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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