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What one product has redefined music for you??

I bring this up only because i bought a new pair of speakers today. They startled me in that they redefined what i understood was the structural organisation and sound that i could expect from hifi.In other words i rediscovered my entire music collection. So much so that I didn't recognise a lot of my favourite musical pieces as they were replayed through these speakers. There were rhythms and interactions that i had never been aware of before and which helped me understand the musicians aims so much more than before. My whole perception of what was capable from hifi was turned upside down, by this one product alone and i have been enjoying hifi for 30 years mostly high end.

My reference speakers were stacked quad 57's and yamaha ns1000 ( highly modified crossover. The speakers that i listened to tonight had a single bamboo originated driver 3" diameter in a box the size of a kids shoe box! They are absolutely gorgeously built. No it aint got no deep bass and cannot drive a moderately sized room, but that's not the point.

The question is not meant to take price into account here but I paid £100 for these posted!!!! The company is Vintage Lab Audio.

Has any one else felt this way by one new product??

Rest of audio system platine verdier/ET parallel tracking arm/audio note cartridge, audio note silver sig power monoblocks.
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audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
I hope your friend kept the Ohm A. Very very few pair were sold to consumers.

Unfortunately the designer Lincoln Walsh, who died in 1971, never lived to see production of both the A and F.
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
Hi KD,
There is no Heil air transformer on the A and F. Both were full range "Walsh" drivers comprised of 3 separate sections made from paper, aluminum, and titanium. The A is 18" and the F is 12". Both consumed more horsepower than the output of any 60's muscle car save the L-88 option.

I know at least one manufacturer, RTR, that used the Heil air motion tweeter extensively in the 70's.

OK, this is really a separate topic and sorry to get off course.
wscottbellah
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The Apogee Apogee.
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
it was an rca tv set, and i saw the beatles on ed sullivan......there may be some kinda tree trend here, my brother-in-law just replaced his beloved maggies(over a decade old) with a pair of jvc floorstanders with wooden cones....he's diggin' 'em. he's in ohio, so i haven't heard them, but he rarely talks to me about hifi or music....until now
mgattmch
556 posts
 
Quad ESL (original and 63s) defined HiFi for me. I heard the original Quads at a HiFi show in the UK in the 70s, at the same show I also heard the Yamaha NS1000Ms. I purchased a pair of NS1000Ms few years later and still have them in service. Moving forward, a bit, first hearing of the Apogee Divas told me, this is what HiFi is all about!!!!
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