Great speakers for very little jingle.
DCM speaker comparison: TimeFrame TF-600, TF-700, TF-1000, Time Window 1a
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jasonbourne
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I am now on my third pair of TW 1A's. I bought my first pair from my nearby Connecticut audio store for $600 in 1977 - $60 discount off list price of $660. The store owner Del gave me a ride home with them in his Volvo station wagon. I used them with a GAS Son of Ampzilla ($450). I kept the first pair for a year and sold them locally to a high school student for $420. I was working then at that same nearby Connecticut audio store so I was able to buy audio gear at dealer cost. I used the $420 from the sale to buy a new current production pair of TW's with the new OEM woofers. The first production ones used the hexagonal basket Philips woofers. I sold the Son of Ampzilla to the same student that bought my TW's. I then used that money to buy at dealer cost the then-new Audionics CC2 amp. I considered that an upgrade over the Son amp.
I kept the CC2/TW 1A's in use for the next several years until 1981 when I traded in the pairing for a set of secondhand Quad 57's from another nearby Connecticut audio store. I considered the Quads a significant upgrade over the TW 1A's. The Quads stayed with me in daily use for 19 years! In need of money in 2000 I reluctantly sold them for $650. During those years I mainly used a Bedini 25/25 amp alternating with a pair of Julius Futterman's H3AA OTL mono amps.
Now decades later I moved from Connecticut to central Florida in 2015. Better weather and affordable real estate! In 2017 I acquired my first smartphone. This gave me access to the Internet. I discovered eBay and surfing there I came across a pair of TW 1A's for $219 and free shipping! A real good deal. So I bought the pair. They arrived safely packed in two boxes in like-new condition! Late production serial numbers 52779, 52780. They have been in dally use since 2018 with an RGR 4 preamp ($199) and a Sumo Andromeda 200wpc amp ($450) - both eBay purchases. Digital sources are a Marantz CD67 ($200) and a Khadas KTB DAC ($80) fed by a JVC DVD player ($26) with coax RCA output. All bought used on eBay. Analog sources are a Mitsubishi DA-F10 tuner and an Ariston RD turntable with a Fidelity Research 29 arm/ Coral B777 Sleeping Beauty lomc cartridge into a Bellari SUT/ RGR 4. All bought secondhand on eBay except the Bellari was bought new ($350).
My third pair of TW 1A's is so musically satisfying that I feel no need to pull out some of my other speakers, which include various Altec's and JBL's, Quad 57's and Rogers LS3/5A's ... more!
I kept the CC2/TW 1A's in use for the next several years until 1981 when I traded in the pairing for a set of secondhand Quad 57's from another nearby Connecticut audio store. I considered the Quads a significant upgrade over the TW 1A's. The Quads stayed with me in daily use for 19 years! In need of money in 2000 I reluctantly sold them for $650. During those years I mainly used a Bedini 25/25 amp alternating with a pair of Julius Futterman's H3AA OTL mono amps.
Now decades later I moved from Connecticut to central Florida in 2015. Better weather and affordable real estate! In 2017 I acquired my first smartphone. This gave me access to the Internet. I discovered eBay and surfing there I came across a pair of TW 1A's for $219 and free shipping! A real good deal. So I bought the pair. They arrived safely packed in two boxes in like-new condition! Late production serial numbers 52779, 52780. They have been in dally use since 2018 with an RGR 4 preamp ($199) and a Sumo Andromeda 200wpc amp ($450) - both eBay purchases. Digital sources are a Marantz CD67 ($200) and a Khadas KTB DAC ($80) fed by a JVC DVD player ($26) with coax RCA output. All bought used on eBay. Analog sources are a Mitsubishi DA-F10 tuner and an Ariston RD turntable with a Fidelity Research 29 arm/ Coral B777 Sleeping Beauty lomc cartridge into a Bellari SUT/ RGR 4. All bought secondhand on eBay except the Bellari was bought new ($350).
My third pair of TW 1A's is so musically satisfying that I feel no need to pull out some of my other speakers, which include various Altec's and JBL's, Quad 57's and Rogers LS3/5A's ... more!
