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Question on old EV speakers

Here are a couple photos of the E-V Regency that I just found. Mine are home build cabinets. Maybe from a kit? Someone did some work to make a pair. Great info and photos in this thread!

(The SX-850 is just for testing)
 

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Cadillac Kid said:
Here are a couple photos of my the E-V Regency that I just found. Mine are home build cabinets. Maybe from a kit? Someone did some work to make a pair. Great info in this thread!

(The SX-850 is just for testing)
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They look great!! Congrats!! :thmbsp:
 
Those Regency's look real nice! If they're from a kit the builder did a very good job assembling them.
 
Thanks for the comments.

ddeland said:
Those Regency's look real nice! If they're from a kit the builder did a very good job assembling them.
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The finish is identical but there are slight differences in the internal construction. On one, the back cover fits into a beveled reveal or the other it is rabbited (and much more difficult to remove). I think the cabinets were possibly made by different builders or at different times. A bit of a mystery. One has a later version of the SP15, and the 1823M and it's crossover were added to each around the same time, I think.
 
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Sir.Byrd said:
If you are unhappy with the performance of the T35, replace it with the CT 125 tweeters from critesspeakers.com I HIGHLY recommend it.
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I saw those on his site. His crossovers look impressive too.

theebadone said:
Everything will be cleaned, tested, and replaced as needed. Gonna keep everything as original as possible.
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Sweet. Post some oictures of your progress.

I am trying to figure out what to power my Regencys with. Anyone know their max power handling?
 
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superdog said:
Very lucky indeed.CactusBob may be the only one one I have read where they found a pair.
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IIRC CactusBob's pair are of slightly different construction. I think one is a factory model, and the other a -similar- home built model. (At least that's what I think he told me.... check directly with him)

I'd love to find a true matching -pair- of factory regency cabinets. so far no luck. I found a single blonde factory regency. Also found what I thought was gonna' be a -pair- of mahogany -factory- regencys, but actually turned out to be one factory made , and a somewhat similar home made one. :sigh:

The only truly matching regency cabinets I have are a pair of home builts. Not a bad thing really as they're much more solid and heavy than the factory jobs..... Here's a pic of them. The wood looks different between the two in this photo... but it really isn't. These things are HEAVY.

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Cadillac Kid said:
Here are a couple photos of the E-V Regency that I just found. Mine are home build cabinets. Maybe from a kit? Someone did some work to make a pair. Great info and photos in this thread!

(The SX-850 is just for testing)
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Super nice looking !! And nice components inside.
 
Cactus Bob said:
Absolutely, the same way I feel about my Regency's. They work so well with Jazz & acoustic music. Such an open, rich, sound.
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ddeland said:
The sound is hard to describe, it literally fills the room with sound in a much different way than any other speaker that I’ve ever heard.
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Ohighway said:
And nice components inside.
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Numistrek09 said:
i thought i'd see what the "ears of AK" have to say about these models.

All thoughts and comments/suggestions welcomed.
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I Spent some time listening to them today. I would describe the sound as dynamic, clean, live, and exciting. The sound stage from just one is remarkable. I was doing some tests on one and kept thinking I was listening to both speakers. The clarity on vocals is amazing. Like being in the front row of a small club.

I cleaned and lubed the 'presence' L-pad and now have the T-35 dialed back a bit.

The Klipsch designed corner-horn is new to me, so far I am really enjoying them. They are just flat out fun.

They brought back a memory of my friend Mac K. He had a pair of VOTT in a the living room of his 1024 sq. foot house. He would play the audiophile Sheffield pressing of Thelma Houston's 'I Got The Music In Me'. It was a sound that stayed with me.
 
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I am very pleased to see this thread is thriving. Keep a postin' guys!

I'm seeing a lot of praise for the Regencys so far. Any opinions on the other models? I've seen Cardinals mentioned.

Given the trouble in finding a matched pair i'm surprised more folks don't just build their own speakers. Anyone here done that?
 
I have an empty factory-built Empire cabinet sitting in the corner of my office right now, waiting to be re-filled with appropriate drivers. The box is built like a very stout house.
 
Numistrek09 said:
I'm seeing a lot of praise for the Regencys so far. Any opinions on the other models? I've seen Cardinals mentioned.
Given the trouble in finding a matched pair i'm surprised more folks don't just build their own speakers. Anyone here done that?
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Well there's a lot of love for Aristocrats. I used to have a single Baronet that was pretty cool, but I sold it after unsuccessfully trying to find a match for it. Someone mentioned the Empire, sort of a budget version of the Regency IIRC.

As far as building their own. As shown in the pic I posted, that's certainly been done. I have a set of EV plans outlining how to build a Regency, and I believe someone mentioned they may have come in kit form too.
 
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