Sonab OA12 Speakers

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jdjohn
jdjohn Posts: 3,437
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Anyone have experience with these?
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They are for sale locally.
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  • HzTweaker
    HzTweaker Posts: 1,120
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    "Anyone have experience with these?"

    I have not. The driver arrangement gives me Bose vibes.
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  • HzTweaker
    HzTweaker Posts: 1,120
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    I'm not knocking it.

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    I'm just saying.
    2ch rig: Speakers: Magnepan LRS w/Magna Riser stands Preamplifier: Parasound P5 DAC: Fiio K13 Amplifier: Parasound A23 CDP: Pioneer DV-563A Cables: Wireworld Equinox 7 XLR ICs, Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 USB, AudioQuest Q2s, AudioQuest NRG X(preamp)

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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,437
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    ...just saying you have no direct experience with the make/model.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • HzTweaker
    HzTweaker Posts: 1,120
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    That is correct... I have on the other hand listened to several Bose models and was never like eww turn that shhh off. Try em' out they might sound good. Who knows maybe Bose was getting it wrong and the OA12s totally rock!
    2ch rig: Speakers: Magnepan LRS w/Magna Riser stands Preamplifier: Parasound P5 DAC: Fiio K13 Amplifier: Parasound A23 CDP: Pioneer DV-563A Cables: Wireworld Equinox 7 XLR ICs, Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 USB, AudioQuest Q2s, AudioQuest NRG X(preamp)

    Standby: LSi9s with VR3's Fortress mods
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,846
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    Hey they're Swedish, can't be too bad.4pkqy5x720uj.png

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,541
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    The Stig Carlsson-designed Sonab loudspeakers used good drivers (Peerless, mostly, perhaps exclusively?) and always sounded good to me.
    Soundscape sold Sonab components for a while back in the day, and used to have a couple of pairs of Sonab Carlsson speakers set up.
    They were quite expensive.
    If I wanted "placement friendly", room-filling (sonically) loudspeakers and I could be choosy (as opposed to being opportunistic), I'd look also at Roy Allison's loudspeakers of the 1970s and beyond. Very, very fine.

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