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Epicure ???

FWIW, Consumers Reports had the EPI 100 as their "Best Buy" speaker for a few years when they were current.
 
Yes,they do look expensive with all those brass inlays and real walnut veneer!One of the woofers in my (EPI 150)pair had a surround that had loosened a couple of inches that caused a very odd sounding bass with all that air leaking!Easily fixed with some glue.Makes me wonder,though how EPI speakers always seem to loose something due to bad glue...
Are there any other speakers with brass inlays?
 
pmsummer said:
The EPI 150 was the 100 in a bigger, nicer box (same drivers). Brass trim around the grills, and odd brass rings flush into the four top corners. Deeper bass than a 100.

EPI 150:
Dimensions: 25" x 15" x 11"
Weight: 30 lbs
Response: 35 to 18k Hz
RMS Power: 15 to 60 watts (very conservative rating)

EPI 100:
Dimensions: 21" x 11" x 9"
Weight: 25 lbs
Response: 45 to 18k Hz
RMS Power: 12 to 50 watts (very conservative rating)
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Thank you very much for the response. I am wondering if you can tell me the efficiency rating too? thanks in advance
 
gonzp said:
Thank you very much for the response. I am wondering if you can tell me the efficiency rating too? thanks in advance
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These have a typical 'inefficient' design of the mid-70s for use with the more powerful amplifiers of the time. (I'm guessing its around 85-88 db by comparison to 92 db Klipsch.)

The 150 is what happens when you pay attention to speaker design rather than marketability. They have a massive large beautiful walnut-veenered box (brass inlays on verticle edges and 4 inset rings on the top) with what in context of other speakers appears to be just two small tightly clustered drivers. Needless to say that the tweeter is what I don't think I'm alone in describing as very clearly among the best ever made. The absence of any crossover beyond a single 10 uF cap on the tweeter to protect it means the 8" woofer is really running as a full range, which is a where many end up at the end of the speaker quest.

This speaker is the 'anti-Kabuki', and certainly not anyone's bookshelf speaker. You will want to mount it off the floor, but not higher than about 12". There is just not too much better you can do within the physics of sound reproduction and human hearing. Don't clutter it up the excellent imaging from sparse and closely-placed drivers with any other speakers or stacking, but you may later consider a big expensive sub to bring up the last 25-35 Hz like only a dedicated 10" can. Spend the money you saved on a nice big early 80s amplifier. ;) -sf
 
EPI 150's are great

In the past year and a half I have owned Large Advents, AR-5's, AR-2AX's, Dynaco A-25's, AR-4X's, and EPI M-150's. I upgraded the capacitors on the crossovers for the Advents, AR-5's and the EPI M-150's (later model tweeters also on the EPIs).

Out of all of them I think I might like the EPI M-150's the best. They are very smooth and have a great balance to them. The Advents are very close, but there is just something about the EPIs.
 
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