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[Puffin]

EAR Primary Drive OB's aided by a GLL Imagio.

[Gordon Steadman]

rather inverness personally

The houses we have been looking at are all within easy reach of Inverness. Up the coast a bit or more inland towards the lochs. Certainly my preference.

[Gordon Steadman]

Keep us informed Gordon. What's your timetable for relocating (again )?

Timetable is 'flexible'...... it very much depends on the sale of this place and France doesn't do rapid house sales like the UK. We are sort of hoping for the spring. We can say with Ronnie's brother and then go house hunting from Gloucestershire. Much easier than from here. We may even do a self build if we can get a decent size plot. Fruit and veg from the garden is a must, even more so if I remember correctly what UK supermarkets offer.

Being out here has paid off as it has meant building a reasonable pot of dosh for house purchase and the mortgage will be cleared next May. The price of choosing the wrong previous partner for both of us.

We have lived in interesting times.

[alphaGT]

Dude, someone has put an emoji on the back of your speaker!

I see it!

Glad to see a few back sides!


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[Iceman16]

[jollyfix]

Very nice Jayson.

[Yomanze]

EAR Primary Drive OB's aided by a GLL Imagio.

Very interesting speakers can you tell us a bit more about them?

[Puffin]

Hi Neil, there was a thread I posted about them as they had a problem when I got them but I can't find it by searching. The voice coils were rubbing, but they are a very unconventional design. The bass unit has no conventional surround the rubber has been removed and the cone bonded to the planar panel. I suppose it give the 10" unit a much larger area to radiate. However, I think the design was flawed in that the planar panel is only secured at the four corners. To fix the rubbing coils I had to make wedges to place around the perimeter of the panel and this effected a cure...sort of, later on I had to add more as some strange buzzing noises started.

There is very little info on the net about these. All I could find from EAR is a show report from the US where they were demonstrated. Tim De Paravicini is said to have designed them, but he did not make them. I emailed him and he gave the info as to who had made them, but I didn't get any further. There were two sizes going to be available. I don't know if mine are the smaller or larger of the two. They were to have retailed around the £5,000 mark, but I have never seen anything to suggest that they were in fact ever sold.

Here is a vid I posted some time ago.

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...Drive+Speakers

The review I mentioned is here.

http://www.newaudio.it/ear_yoshino.htm

[kininigin]

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[kininigin]

Anyone know why my pictures will not load?? Been to the photobucket site and cannot see what to upgrade! Never had this problem before!