Panasonic Thrusters? Am I missing something?
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Stuart Pedaso
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Parallel twin mid/bass drivers between tweeter above and passive radiator below. Reminiscent of Polk model 10.
I'm curious about the chronology. Might the Polks have inspired Panasonic? Or did Matthew wrestle with Thruster envy?
I'm curious about the chronology. Might the Polks have inspired Panasonic? Or did Matthew wrestle with Thruster envy?
kfa888
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Parallel twin mid/bass drivers between tweeter above and passive radiator below. Reminiscent of Polk model 10.
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I'm curious about the chronology. Might the Polks have inspired Panasonic? Or did Matthew wrestle with Thruster envy?
And the KLH model 5 before it
Coytee
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Heh....brings back an old memory....
Was probably 1979, I had my brand, brand new LaScalas sitting in the room.... hooked up to Yamaha receiver, 3bx, subharmonic synthesizer.... Akai RTR....
Had a girl over (hesitate to call her girlfriend, we only went out twice as I recall.... turned out she was kinda shallow)
None the less.... dropped the needle on Erruption by Van Halen and turned it up to sort of stupid.... I was sitting there with a HUGE Sh** eating grin on my face....
Then, quite interestingly, she started to talk about her speakers, as if to defend them.... how great they were, how loud they played.... and she had a pair of Thrusters.
I thought that was cool as I was unfamiliar with them at the time.... saw/heard them later on and recalled the evening with her and got a kick out of her comments.
Guess I turned into a hater and horn snob without knowing it.
Was probably 1979, I had my brand, brand new LaScalas sitting in the room.... hooked up to Yamaha receiver, 3bx, subharmonic synthesizer.... Akai RTR....
Had a girl over (hesitate to call her girlfriend, we only went out twice as I recall.... turned out she was kinda shallow)
None the less.... dropped the needle on Erruption by Van Halen and turned it up to sort of stupid.... I was sitting there with a HUGE Sh** eating grin on my face....
Then, quite interestingly, she started to talk about her speakers, as if to defend them.... how great they were, how loud they played.... and she had a pair of Thrusters.
I thought that was cool as I was unfamiliar with them at the time.... saw/heard them later on and recalled the evening with her and got a kick out of her comments.
Guess I turned into a hater and horn snob without knowing it.
spicer
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Clearly she had a case of p###s envy, affects some men too... a size thing. I know.... hard to believe something like that exists but once one accepts what 'used' to be common knowledge among psychologists,, men with beards and a lifetime of study, a lot of things start to make sense... Thrusters, you know. Panasonic... very clever.
I had a pair in the garage of my first house back in the early 90’s. Money was real tight back then. I bought them along with a Montgomery wards receiver at a local auction house for $4. That might have been the best $4 deal I ever did. I listened to that stereo for hundreds of hours while I tried to keep my junk vehicles running so I could get to work.
Some "good" speakers sound pretty bad. I wouldn't be surprised if I preferred Thrusters to some of the speakers often touted here.
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