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In Reply to: RE: Speakers Never Heard posted by bean on January 18, 2015 at 10:57:15:
We sold them... rather we sold one. Had it in a big room driven by a Mac MC2300, C28, Thorens 125, Shure V15 (whatever the 1972 version was.) So pretty to look at, so awful to listen to. No bass. Almost no mid-bass. Overwhelming mids that hinted at greatness. Complete listener fatigue in five minutes, tops. The only speaker that sounded worse was the Bose 901. There was a huge spif on the R/P, and still it took forever to get rid of it. Maybe the somewhat dull-sounding C28 robbed the R/P of its goodness and left the annoying; I donno. As I heard it, it was aggressively awful.
But... we had a big spif on another impossible-to-sell speaker, and that was the KLH Nine. It was 1972, and $1,140 for the Nines, or $1,830 for the R/P was really hard to imagine.
(Sidenote: the Nines, driven by a pair of MC3500s, playing the Shchedrin Carmen Ballet on Angel/Melodiya, has to be one of the greatest demos ever.)
Still, there are people spending fortunes for the Asian recreations of the R/P, so maybe that hint of greatness could have been turned into something good with better sounding gear upstream.
WW
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