Vintage Audio part 5 - Speakers

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by William

Any one ever try speakers from the French company Cabasse? Do they plane or ride like they are on rails? Ride reports please if you have.

I don't consider the Cabasse substitutes for any traditional speaker. Rather, they should be considered alternatives to Sonos if you like the concept of a networked wireless powered speaker with its own app for supplying content, but want significantly better audio performance -- and significantly more radical aesthetic styling -- than a Sonos FIVE or ONE SL or PLAY etc.

[William]

Originally Posted by Bob Ross

I don't consider the Cabasse substitutes for any traditional speaker. Rather, they should be considered alternatives to Sonos if you like the concept of a networked wireless powered speaker with its own app for supplying content, but want significantly better audio performance -- and significantly more radical aesthetic styling -- than a Sonos FIVE or ONE SL or PLAY etc.

I should have been more specific, I was thinking along the lines of their standard speakers...not the powered/blue tooth/nuclear fission style speakers.



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[Marvinlungwitz]

They're not vintage, but they have a vintage look to them.
And I think they sound great, but YMMV.

https://dynaudio.com/home-audio/heri...ritage-special

[Bob Ross]

Originally Posted by William

I should have been more specific, I was thinking along the lines of their standard speakers...not the powered/blue tooth/nuclear fission style speakers.

Ah, okay, I wasn't even aware that they made "normal" speakers!

[Jeff N.]

If it's VINTAGE you want, these'll shake the foundation! You could buy them when I was overseas during the Vietnam mess but shipping them home was up to you. They were just too damn big. (Sansui SP-5500)

[William]

Originally Posted by Jeff N.

If it's VINTAGE you want, these'll shake the foundation! You could buy them when I was overseas during the Vietnam mess but shipping them home was up to you. They were just too damn big. (Sansui SP-5500)

Would love to hear what those sound like!





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[robt57]

OK, now that the old thread is awake from a bump....

Vintage you say?

I re-set up my HT, new cabinet and LG/OLED. Front HT speakers some TF250 Time Frames I got used in 2002. Re-done edges on the woofs still holding up and sounding good. Rest of the speakers Piegas.

I wish I still had my Time Windows my friend talked me outta in the 90s... Frames just have to do I guess.

Then there were the Klipsch La Scala I always wanted but had no room for.. Sucker for folded horns, yo!

[pdmtong]

Ironic. I picked up a pair of TF250 on local CL.
The grills were gone and the owner had painted them an ugly chocolate brown. I repainted them matte black. Love the looks. Recently sold.

[Rpoole8537]

Originally Posted by Ken Robb

I have a pair of 35 year-old ADS two-way speakers in my bedroom and they still sound fine. AFAIK all ADS speakers used butyl rubber surrounds that, unlike foam, don't disintegrate over time.

I think the JBL speakers in the pix are too small to give you much bass.

I had a pair of AFD 700's form the mid 70's. They had foam surrounds that deteriorated. I called ADS and bought four of their replacement speakers, which cost me almost as much as the original speakers. The new speakers were butyl surrounds and they did not sound as good, IMHO. I met a dealer in Raleigh and he agreed. I sold those many years later and I regret it to this day.

[C40_guy]

Originally Posted by Rpoole8537

I had a pair of AFD 700's form the mid 70's. They had foam surrounds that deteriorated. I called ADS and bought four of their replacement speakers, which cost me almost as much as the original speakers. The new speakers were butyl surrounds and they did not sound as good, IMHO. I met a dealer in Raleigh and he agreed. I sold those many years later and I regret it to this day.

I've got a pair of ADS L520 speakers in my gym/Zwift setup. They still sound great.

@Bob Ross and I sold more than a few of these back in the day.

...and at one point, we got an ADS factory tour. Very cool.