29 minutes ago, aasza said:

 

New ME gear or a custom bespoke order ?

these are the ME 580 power amp+58 pre made here in melbourne by ron berger(ponytail) as known onSNA at winovate,the 580 is the updated model with high capacitance option

Big horns - VOTT. 

Nice.

I think Mr Pass had a hand in this. 

Best open baffle I’ve ever seen.

Who thinks of this stuff? 

Big

Please Lord, make me stop. 

18 hours ago, mwhouston said:

Big

 

Not a big fan

34 minutes ago, spamnoj said:

 

Not a big fan

But he has AC backup

Are we looking at portable audio in this thread? If so,

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xRFNBWST25E/TKKuzUJ70mI/AAAAAAAAGEk/NFlNgOCsIF0/s400/Donkey+Speaker+Mod.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 22, 20214 yr by deepthought

1 hour ago, deepthought said:

Are we looking at portable audio in this thread? If so,

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xRFNBWST25E/TKKuzUJ70mI/AAAAAAAAGEk/NFlNgOCsIF0/s400/Donkey+Speaker+Mod.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Based in that link. No. Big, expensive, exotic or out of this world - Top Gear. 

Powerball Win ....  Speakers alone are $1,000,000+

 

Crazy big speakers. 

On 21/04/2021 at 10:19 PM, mwhouston said:

Big

 

Yep, they are BIG.

 

I always wish I'd taken some pics of a system I heard a few times in Clayton, VIC in the early 80's.

The guy was a builder, and a nice bloke.  He took a wall out in the house to join 2 rooms to accommodate it.

 

Speakers were not quite as big as these, but were huge and made up of 3 separate units each side.

Woofers were 15 or 18" Hartleys in enclosures the size of dining room tables.  Upper bass/Mids were handled by 10" Hartley full-range drivers.  These were in boxes that must have been around 60 litres and sat on top of the woofer enclosures.  Tweeters were ribbons, hand-made by the guy who put the whole system together for him.

 

All tube amplification.  Active woofer-mid crossover allowing a dedicated 2-channel amp for the Woofers.  And a 2nd 2-channel amp for the Mids & Tweeters with passive crossover.

 

His favorite demo record was a US pressing of Rita Coolidge - Anytime...Anywhere.  Sounded amazing.  I hadn't been playing bass for long at that time & hearing Lee Sklar's work so clean blew me away.

TT, arm and cart were all very nice, but I can't recall what they were now.

 

After the system was turned on there was a period of 1 cup of tea (or 1 stubby depending on the time of day) allowed for warm up before the first disk was spun.

1 hour ago, surprisetech said:

 

Yep, they are BIG.

 

I always wish I'd taken some pics of a system I heard a few times in Clayton, VIC in the early 80's.

The guy was a builder, and a nice bloke.  He took a wall out in the house to join 2 rooms to accommodate it.

 

Speakers were not quite as big as these, but were huge and made up of 3 separate units each side.

Woofers were 15 or 18" Hartleys in enclosures the size of dining room tables.  Upper bass/Mids were handled by 10" Hartley full-range drivers.  These were in boxes that must have been around 60 litres and sat on top of the woofer enclosures.  Tweeters were ribbons, hand-made by the guy who put the whole system together for him.

 

All tube amplification.  Active woofer-mid crossover allowing a dedicated 2-channel amp for the Woofers.  And a 2nd 2-channel amp for the Mids & Tweeters with passive crossover.

 

His favorite demo record was a US pressing of Rita Coolidge - Anytime...Anywhere.  Sounded amazing.  I hadn't been playing bass for long at that time & hearing Lee Sklar's work so clean blew me away.

TT, arm and cart were all very nice, but I can't recall what they were now.

 

After the system was turned on there was a period of 1 cup of tea (or 1 stubby depending on the time of day) allowed for warm up before the first disk was spun.

i still listen to that Rita Coolidge album -Anytime Anywhere,played it to death back then,still enjoy it now?

40 minutes ago, ray4410 said:

i still listen to that Rita Coolidge album -Anytime Anywhere,played it to death back then,still enjoy it now?

 

Likewise!  The same guy put me onto Gulf Winds (Joan Baez), Rose of Cimarron (Poco) and a few others. I've just remembered he also used to play a Vader Abraham album for the deep male vocals (no Smurfs on that one thankfully).

I always thought Ken Fritz' story, room and system to be the pinnacle of the hobby. Most of the gear including the turntable, speakers and the whole room he built himself.

 

Edited April 23, 20214 yr by kelossus

Whatever floats your boat. 

Expensive but not extreme. 

Just bloody expensive. 

22 minutes ago, mwhouston said:

Whatever floats your boat. 

Trying to get a flat frequency response?

43 minutes ago, fordute said:

Trying to get a flat frequency response?

Did he buy mats because his speakers are so low, or did he buy small speakers because he sits on mats

Aussie made. I like. But i think it a heresy. Would prefer passive speakers. 
 

https://www.stereo.net.au/news/aussie-brand-pitt-giblin-emerges-from-pandemic-with-new-direction?fbclid=IwAR2UrLnIe2ZzgD0EiiWEuqyRP-iaWgjY01wCmJEVNcJCUa6RtG60v7G-hDQ

Edited April 24, 20214 yr by mwhouston