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    Quote Originally Posted by montesquieu View Post
    Cheeky bugger! Well I think they look great!
    I'm sure they sound great but I am a firm believer in the "form follows function" school. I just can't understand why you would try to disguise a high end speaker as a piece of reproduction furniture. Yes, I am sure that the cabinets are very solidly made, but I am sure they would sound even better without the reflective edges around the front baffle.

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    I don't think anybody has posted any of these yet: Mordaunt Short MS700s - from the early seventies, I believe, and a classic of their time. MS's own 12" woofers, mid range cones and Decca Kelly ribbon tweeters - very much hi-fi "haute couture" of the seventies. They give a whopping big and effortless sound. 80 or so litres of cabinet space demonstrate just what the words "scale" and "dynamics" mean in relation to loudspeakers (and how mis-applied they can be in relation to tiny, fierce boxes). Plus nobody can say they don't look like what they are!






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    Very nice Gary

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    look lovely Gary
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    Quote Originally Posted by Infinitely Baffled View Post
    I don't think anybody has posted any of these yet: Mordaunt Short MS700s - from the early seventies, I believe, and a classic of their time. MS's own 12" woofers, mid range cones and Decca Kelly ribbon tweeters - very much hi-fi "haute couture" of the seventies. They give a whopping big and effortless sound. 80 or so litres of cabinet space demonstrate just what the words "scale" and "dynamics" mean in relation to loudspeakers (and how mis-applied they can be in relation to tiny, fierce boxes). Plus nobody can say they don't look like what they are!






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    Lovely condition. I don't ever recall heading a pair of these.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Infinitely Baffled View Post
    I don't think anybody has posted any of these yet: Mordaunt Short MS700s - from the early seventies, I believe, and a classic of their time. MS's own 12" woofers, mid range cones and Decca Kelly ribbon tweeters - very much hi-fi "haute couture" of the seventies. They give a whopping big and effortless sound. 80 or so litres of cabinet space demonstrate just what the words "scale" and "dynamics" mean in relation to loudspeakers (and how mis-applied they can be in relation to tiny, fierce boxes). Plus nobody can say they don't look like what they are!






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    Doesn't Audio Al have a pair?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    Doesn't Audio Al have a pair?
    Quicker to list what he doesn't have...

    The do look like they should be bloody good.
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    Thanks for the complimentary remarks, fellows. There is an odd twist to this tale which is that, remarkable as these speakers are, I don't actually like them very much. In my system at home they produce, well, too much of everything! I guess I prefer a slightly leaner musical presentation. You win some, you lose some, don't you?
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