Unusual HiFi products from the past.

pitdogg2

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

I had a friend who had the record player, his had no cassette. It was a nice little player.

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JayCee

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

Yup, "The science of sound".
I sold the 1984'ish honeycomb series speaker line when I worked for Technics. CD's were new enough to be a novelty and we'd often throw one like a Frisbee in front of customers, let it hit the ground, show the scratches and then demo that it could play. On one occasion, I flung it at a coworker (really hard) and it went careening into the woofer of an X700...

Scared the cra* out of us and dented the honeycomb on the woofer. Never affected the sound which, as I recall, was not very good. I still have the seriously scratched CD and it, amazingly, still plays.....and does sound very good!

SeleniumFalcon

SeleniumFalcon

"Cosmostatic" has got to be one of the coolest speaker names I can think of.

maxward

Cosmo Kramer, CEO.

boston1450

Fran Cosmo, Boston

mhardy6647

I remember those!

SeleniumFalcon

mhardy6647

The Obelisk was around for a long, long time. Very fine sounding little loudspeakers, IMO (and FWIW).


From a brochure I picked up at High Fidelity Center in B-more in late 1976/early '77.

SeleniumFalcon

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mhardy6647

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

Progenitor of good ol' CAIG DeOxit D
see, e.g.,
https://sites.pitt.edu/~szekeres/caigcram.htm
(it's on the Internet, so it must be true)

At any rate, there's some interesting manner of legacy relationship there...
http://www.technicalaudio.com/pdf/Electronics_Catalog_Extracts/CAIG_labs_Cramolin_products_1966_REM_E30.pdf.pdf

SeleniumFalcon

I love the drawing:

SeleniumFalcon

@mhardy6647 have you ever heard the Stromberg-Carlson coaxial speakers?

pitdogg2

mhardy6647 wrote: »

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

Progenitor of good ol' CAIG DeOxit D
see, e.g.,
https://sites.pitt.edu/~szekeres/caigcram.htm
(it's on the Internet, so it must be true)

At any rate, there's some interesting manner of legacy relationship there...
http://www.technicalaudio.com/pdf/Electronics_Catalog_Extracts/CAIG_labs_Cramolin_products_1966_REM_E30.pdf.pdf

You find the most interesting stuff, I'm of course going to need a bigger brain as I cannot possibly store it all in this CPU...

SeleniumFalcon

mhardy6647

SeleniumFalcon wrote: »

@mhardy6647 have you ever heard the Stromberg-Carlson coaxial speakers?

Yes but only a long, long time ago.

SeleniumFalcon

In a galaxy far away?

mhardy6647

Well, kinda.
Maryland.

SeleniumFalcon

mhardy6647

Quincy Jones advertised Horrortones, too

SeleniumFalcon

I think many of today's manufacturers are selling "magic", but they use a more obfuscating word.

SeleniumFalcon

TennMan

Nightfall wrote: »

Tired of the loudness wars? Electronically expand your musics dynamic range!

I had a friend that owned a smaller version of one of these DBX "companders" as he called it. It did a good job of taking the snap crackle pop out of vinyl records and it did add dynamic range when properly adjusted.

SeleniumFalcon

TennMan

I thought the Ohm F speakers were very cool looking. I always wanted to hear a pair but never got the chance.

pitdogg2

TennMan wrote: »

I thought the Ohm F speakers were very cool looking. I always wanted to hear a pair but never got the chance.

I've had the pleasure of hearing 3-4 pair. I've not had the pleasure to hear those. I always thought they were very good speakers. They like old Polk supported them for decades past their availability.

SeleniumFalcon

Infinity's 2000 II had an Ohm/Walsh type tweeter: