Steve Jobs' hifi...

[FONSguy]

Now that iPods will play AIFF files as well as MP3's I put 2 hours of AIFF hiqh quality audio on my Nano. It doesn't sound as bad as a Roku SoundBridge. I even did 2 hours of Christmas music from vinyl onto it and played it back through a Crown D150 into a pair of JBL 4311's. Amazing for what it was.

 

[JohnVF]

You can also get a dock that takes the digital stream off of it, which you can send to a separate DAC, making it essentially a small server for whatever file format you have on it, limited only by its storage capacity. I've heard setups like this and they were as good as any other digital source, largely dependent upon the DAC used.

 

[JoeESP9]

I had a pair of Accoustats that were identical to the ones in this picture.

They did not have the solid wood cabinet underneath.

The speakers were called "Accoustat Model X". Roman numeral ten, IIRC.

They originally had a vacuum tube power supply. The vacuum tube PS had been removed from mine. I installed Hafler SS power supplies from a pair of Accoustats IIs. It was enough to drive the three panels.

I've never heard of a Model 3 Accoustat.

The Xs were really nice sounding. The Quad ESLs were much better. Several Martin Logan models also made a superior sound than my Xs. Of course mine were patch work. I gave them away.

I had a pair of Acoustat Model 3's. They were three panel esl's. They were energized by the Acoustat MK-121 interface. All Acoustats after the Model X use the MK-121 (or higher) interface instead of built in tube amplifiers. The early interface equipped models (Model 2, Model 3 and Model 4) had the wood riser. The only difference between them is the number of esl panels in each one. The model number designates how many.

Later Acoustat Models extended the grill cloth to the base plate.

 

[House de Kris]

I had a pair of Accoustats that were identical to the ones in this picture.

They did not have the solid wood cabinet underneath.

Perhaps I don't know the definition of the word 'identical,' but to say you had something identical, then go on to describe what is different doesn't sound like it is identical in my book.

The speakers were called "Accoustat Model X". Roman numeral ten, IIRC.

They originally had a vacuum tube power supply. The vacuum tube PS had been removed from mine. I installed Hafler SS power supplies from a pair of Accoustats IIs. It was enough to drive the three panels.

I've never heard of a Model 3 Accoustat.

I don't think Acoustat ever made a Model X. They had a system called the Monitor X. It was a four panel speaker with a tube amplifier (not just tube power supply) in the base. This was then replaced by the Monitor 4, along with a smaller sibling called the Monitor 3 (three panels, clever huh?). Both of these had tube amps in the base. A couple years later, they came out with the Model 4 and Model 3 replacements that had a transformer in the base instead of the tube amp.

 

[JoeESP9]

They were called X, as in Acoustat X.
The Model 3's I had were identical to the ones in the photo. Since then (1983) various Acoustats have been the only speakers in my room.

 

[BigElCat]

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/clsk.pl?spkrplan&1264531736

Thanks for the discourse. I ran a goggle search on Accoustats; there are quite a few models of which I am not familiar.

I really did like my Xs. They had a pair of 121MKII power supply from the model II. I had a Parasound Sound HCA 220 as the amp, and an A/D/S SW-5 for the lows.

RE: "Identical"; I meant the upper portion was identical. Sorry for the confusion.