Never heard a pair until yesterday.
One of those companies for whatever reason i've just never managed a listen to in over 30 years of being into hi fi.
Very impressed with them.
Some extremely deep bass going on.
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Never heard a pair until yesterday.
One of those companies for whatever reason i've just never managed a listen to in over 30 years of being into hi fi.
Very impressed with them.
Some extremely deep bass going on.
301/Puresound 2A3/quite large Grf cab horny ones.Eminence/Coral/Le cleach
Aye, of the trouser flapping variety!
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Were imf a favourite with the naim users in the late 70s early 80s?
I know bariks and saras were.
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The big IMF transmission line speakers I heard back in the day were (very) impressively deep and powerful, but kind of plodded along pace'n'rhythm-wise.
Maybe modern-day 'lectronics get them under better control?
I'd imagine you want a Big Mutha amp with loadsa watts and current.
Which ones did you hear, Stu?
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The 80s jerry.
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Ah, OK,. not the HUGE ones then.
These? http://www.t-linespeakers.org/classics/TLS80/index.html
Yep, I heard the slightly smaller 50s at Dana's place. Very impressed - I prefered them to his main system Opera speakers! .. a bit to his annoyance, I think!
The 50s weren't slow at all - nice pacey beasts with deep articulate bass.
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Thats the ones.
301/Puresound 2A3/quite large Grf cab horny ones.Eminence/Coral/Le cleach
The best for these speakers is a solid state amp with HUGE amounts of damping factor. Naim need not apply as the bass wallowed when 250 or 135 driven..
The better pro amps were excellent partners and in the mid 70's, the Crown "D" series were excellent matches. I suspect a modern big Krell or Bryston would be pretty darned good too and the MC2 power amp that was unfairly ignored here recently would be a marriage made in heaven I reckon.
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Would quads work well?
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I spend many years lusting after a pair of TLS80's after i heard them in a dealers in the late 70's.The trouble was they were the same price as a new mini and i couldn't afford one of them.The nearest i got was a loan of a pair of cambridge R50's.I now use a pair of IPL transmission lines,a bit more refined,but still make your trousers flap .. Would still like to make room for a pair of IMF's thou'...