Originally Posted by
PaulStewart
I heard the Podiums briefly at one of the Heathrow shows and was impressed. I got a bit more involved when, I did a lot of the publicity photography for them, at that point Viv and I had The Old Ammunition Factory( a photo studio we built in the cordite store of an old hand grenade factory in Hounslow. It wasn't posh, but it was cheap and man, was it secure). Howard Popeck and Shelly Katz brought them over for the shoot and as I had a TEAC 300 system in the studio, we disconnected the little Tannoy D100s I used there at the time and hooked up the Podiums. They were quite amazing, despite being flat panel open baffles, in the fairly large, (550 sq. foot, with an 18 foot high ceiling) room, they had plenty of bass depth. They must have been extremely phase coherent as the imaging was, to put it mildly, amazing. If you stood between the speakers and even a foot or so behind them, you could still perceive a stereo image IN FRONT OF YOU!!! The overall balance of the things was pretty good too.
I think Shelly's ideas on marketing were, in my opinion a bit of the wall and doomed to fail. He was talking about send prospective customers brochures that IIRC, would have cost almost £10.00 pounds each, a ridiculous amount, thousand could have been given away at shows etc., without a single sale. Sad as they were a great product.