What's wrong with this picture?

 From the June issue of Stereophile.


  Emotiva ad, see anything wrong? you may have to click on this for a closer look.


 The gentleman is apparently listening to a CD, the preamp is set to "phono direct".


  Also, there is no cartridge mounted in the turntable..........


   LMAO!

R.I.P. Donna

  Donna  Summers died yesterday, so you think, "I'll play a couple of her albums tonight". You tweak, and you fiddle, switch turntables, dial a couple of dials and adjust the sub.

 No audiophile in the early '80s worth his or her salt didn't own this record! Great demo record even if you didn't like her.

Between Georgio Moroder's intense, driving synths and Donna's sultry vocals, this transported you to a different level-  even if you didn't like disco.

You know you got it right when you start crying- I did.

 Donna can never do this again!

I continued to be a fan long after the disco days.... spent hours and hours listening to her- both from the production values standpoint and the artist.

So unpretentious! Dissed the "Queen of Disco" moniker.......

Subwoofers

 Have had a variety, going back to the late  '70s with the original M&K 1a's (pair) with my Dahlquists and Magnepans, Velodyne ULD-15, and currently a Earthquake Supernova. As full range speakers go, most don't shake the room unless it's at the expense of accuracy. Always enjoyed the flexibility of a sub or two, even before it became a household word.

Celestion glass speakers

              AVS-302, made from Italian tempered glass, look really cool and image very well. As you can imagine by looking at them- not gobs of deep base. When used with a subwoofer, pretty cool.

Sonab

My absolute favorite cult speakers, Stig Carlsen was at one point committed to a Swedish insane asylum. Not sure whether it was before of after he designed these. The OA-14, pretty much the middle of the line pictured here,one of the models, I still have a couple of pairs today. One pair mint,fully restored, one not so mint.They all need refoaming, Peerless drivers including alnico magnet woofers and tweeters, the various models added multiples of these as you moved up the line. Real rosewood, high tech ABS tuned labyrinth enclosures underneath. Designed to be placed against the back wall, kind of went right where Bose went wrong, reflected just the highs instead of the full range.

Magnepan

Tympani

MG-1 (the back was not normally exposed like this)

The brainchild of Jim Winey, panel speakers that are not electrostatic, but have many similarities.The company still flourishes today.

Famous for their three panel Tympani series in the '80s, the only ones I owned were the MG-1 Improved. Liked these a lot, but of course they needed a sub.

   Their SMG was a fantastic value for $500., and quite a few pairs of these still exist today.

Dahlquist

These had me more excited than just about any other speaker when I was in my mid 20's. Think I owned the DQ-10's off and again about four times. Even had two pair stacked once (not an easy feat).

A top seller at JB, I loved these. Jon Dahlquist was an aerospace engineer for NASA, and his hobby was loudspeakers.The DQ-10 earned several patents, minimal diffraction, time alignment, phased array, what have you. Several modifications came along for these, mine were always stock.

  These speakers actually inspired Saul Marantz to come out of retirement and represent the company.


 Horrendous Motorola Piezo on the top registers that people blamed for being too bright. It was actually the regular tweeter that was screaming. Philips midrange and Advent woofer, these resulted in a very distinct sound.

 Extremely power hungry, you needed at least 200 watts to do them justice.Think I used a Dynaco Stereo 400.  The DQ-1W was one of the first commercially successful subwoofers to come along, also used by many with Magnepans.  I used M&K subs (2) along with the DQ-LP1 Dahlquist electronic crossover.


     Dahlquist also introduced a monitor series, DQM-7 and 9, using German made Magnat drivers. Sort of a refined JBL, I still have a pair of DQM-9 compacts.