Frazier Model Seven speakers - in the house.
- Thread starter Snade
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Nice work, Mark! Room looks great, too!:thmbsp:
Snade
humble AK member
The Frazier Sevens have now rotated into my main rig.
I'm running them with my Pilot tube amp and Fisher FM tuner (see sig below).
The new l-pads I installed to adjust the mids and highs, I've turned these down (the highs down about 40% and the mids about 25%) and these things now sound very balanced.
To say these things fill the room with big sound is an understatement.
I am using some vintage bookshelf speakers (placed face down) as stands for the Sevens, it puts them up about a foot off the ground and the low end sounds very nice.
Still tweaking them to tame them down.
They image very well for such big speakers, amazing detail, very pleasing, full midrange.
That's the scoop. Snade
I'm running them with my Pilot tube amp and Fisher FM tuner (see sig below).
The new l-pads I installed to adjust the mids and highs, I've turned these down (the highs down about 40% and the mids about 25%) and these things now sound very balanced.
To say these things fill the room with big sound is an understatement.
I am using some vintage bookshelf speakers (placed face down) as stands for the Sevens, it puts them up about a foot off the ground and the low end sounds very nice.
Still tweaking them to tame them down.
They image very well for such big speakers, amazing detail, very pleasing, full midrange.
That's the scoop. Snade
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I've heard those Fraziers in Snade's basement. Very nice and very big sounding. They just pump out room filling sound so effortlessly while retaining detail. We didn't get a chance to dial them in but my impression is that they were very balanced sounding with the tweeters and midrange reduced a bit with the new L-Pads.
If those Fraziers have displaced Snade's beloved Rectlinears in his tube powered rig, they must sound really good now.
If those Fraziers have displaced Snade's beloved Rectlinears in his tube powered rig, they must sound really good now.
pmsummer
simul justus et peccator
The DD-1 was (IIRC) one of the speakers that the new owners of Frazier built after Jack Frazier passed away. It's based on the Monte Carlo, which was a great speaker utilizing a Helmholtz resonator design.
The "post-Jack" Fraziers were hit and miss, starting out just as good, and then deteriorating as the designs got cannibalized for short-term gain.
Maybe Todd Crane will step in with some valid info on the DD-1.
The "post-Jack" Fraziers were hit and miss, starting out just as good, and then deteriorating as the designs got cannibalized for short-term gain.
Maybe Todd Crane will step in with some valid info on the DD-1.
Snade
humble AK member
Right now there are no grills.
I may build the simple grills using the design you provided later this year. :thmbsp:
These Sevens sound simply fantastic with the Pilot tube amp. Such a rich, room-filling sound with detail where it is so easy to isolate any instrument as your ear may wish.
The Rectilinear speakers have moved over to the system with the vintage Marantz and still sound very good.
This hobby can be a ton of fun.
Thanks again, PM, for alerting me to the potential of Frazier Sevens.
Your buddy, Mark (aka Snade)
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glenwcar
Taking the HiFi Road
thanks
Hopefully someone has a little more info. When was the transition? (Jack's passing). It seems that the brans in general was pretty efficient. The DD-1's that I saw were heavy, nicely built, and a nice size, if a little deep. If they are efficient and sound anything like the others that have been described, $32 seems like a good investment.
I saw a picture of the Monte Carlos in apost, what were the specs?
Thanks
pmsummer
simul justus et peccator
Todd Crane does not speak highly of the Things. I've never seen a pair.
Quagh
Super Member
Yeah but Summer......I'm trying to collect them all!
I'm missing 11's, Super Texan's, D-Landers's, Things, Concerto's, and a newer set of V's (and the previously mentioned) Thing!
Then I can die a happy man!
(God...I've got it bad!)
