No Hurt Feelings - What speakers do you think sound terrible?
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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
The 2000a has an electrostatic tweeter array
I wonder what I had then? They had a 12" woofer and a Walsh tweeter. Kind of low and square. I thought for sure it was a 2000A? Maybe 2001A? My bad.
I'm pretty sure I've poo-pooed more than one set of speakers that passed through here simply because they weren't working up to snuff.
Too much falling from the sky and onto the curb back in the day that is.
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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Bingo! Hey, it was 1975 - memory isn't what it used to be! I bought them on BLOWOUT SALE from Pacific Stereo. They sounded very dull and thumpy. A friend brought over his Dynaco A-50s and I was very taken with those. Sold the Infinities the next day and bought a piar of the Dyna A-50s. Had them a long time.2000axt
z-adamson
Addicted Member
Which RS models out of curiosity? Surly you don't mean ALL of the RS models. They made many different models over a 50 year or so span.
Bloodyhell
New Member
The last time I listened to my JBL 4311 studio monitors I thought they were awful. Maybe I had just gotten used to something else. I don’t know.
I didn't care any for of them, those and you can add Fisher (the line that Woolco sold) which I'm sure was the lower end stuff. Can't say anything about the old RS speakers that I see some on here have modded but if you replace the drivers, crossovers with different ones..then the only thing original remains are the cabinets. I'm glad people are finding uses for these old RS speakers
I'm not sure about all RS speakers,but in my area the Minimus 7 would go on sale for half price every six months. They were okay at their sale price to stick on my kitchen wall but I never would have paid full price for them. Perhaps they did this with their other speakers. In places where there was little competition and other speakers sold at full MSRP RS speakers were a reasonable alternative.
jdmccall
Super Member
Going back to my early hi-fi days in the mid 70's, I'd have to say that most of the Pioneer speakers I heard at Service Merchandise did not sound good to me at all; and I really wanted to like them because I loved Pioneer electronics and I liked the look of their speakers, but to me they pretty much all sounded harsh, tizzy and mechanical. Granted, I never heard the HPM150 and 200, but I did hear the 100 and 60 and some of the CS models.
Since then, I don't really recall hearing anything that I thought was actually bad sounding (I guess I was hanging out with better speakers
) but I do recall being underwhelmed by a pair of Focals once.
Since then, I don't really recall hearing anything that I thought was actually bad sounding (I guess I was hanging out with better speakers
) but I do recall being underwhelmed by a pair of Focals once.
JoeESP9
ESL's & tubes since 83
Did you have the matching subwoofer?
Bummer...we were there for the real time unboxing.
Hanleyster
ambitious but rubbish
good to see this still going lol
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You disconnect the rear tweeter on the Snell....then they will image better. I did this with my E-II's worked well!
Maggie 3.6's ......sorry - these things only sound good when you're perfectly still, in the sweet spot and you can't move an inch to the left or right. Heard them in Jacksonville in a tuned room, with high end gear and a $20k turntable!!!! These things beam!!!!! Anything outside of the very narrow sweet-spot.....is very disappointing.
