hughandella
11-05-2016, 08:43
These are my own speakers and along with the purchase of a DAC led me to becoming involved with SW1X.
"marmite' design (love it or hate it) - I'm firmly in the former camp, although I can't pretend they will work or necessarily appeal in a smaller room.
Sound is stunning and finish is special too - £2,250 FIRM --- can't really listen to offers at this price.
Specs
A semi open baffle cabinet, based on a well known design but heavily tweaked - professionally made of highest grade birch plywood (not MDF) in black, finished with 7 coats piano lacquer
The high sensitivity drivers are all vintage drivers from the 50s with AlNiCo magnets and ultra light ORIGINAL cones:
3.5” Grundig gold tweeters with ultra thin, light cones and large AlNiCo magnets
8” SABA mid woofer green cones with hard to find Tigges AlNiCo magnets (10K Gauss magnetic flux density ones)
15” ALTEC 416A AlNiCo woofer for the bass- legendary and RARE 8 Ohm voice coil version drivers with their ORIGINAL (not re-coned!) cones
Resistor-less X-over which includes:
JENSEN copper foil paper in oils for the Grundig tweeters
PIO capacitors throughout
JANTZEN flat foil and toroidal inductors with lowest series resistance available
Optimised point to point silver plated copper in Teflon wiring
Total nominal speaker impedance is around 6 Ohms without dips below 5 Ohms
Sensitivity of the speakers is not less than 96 dB/W/1m, which makes them ideal for low power Tube amplifiers (single ended in particular) but work well with anything frankly although a 'muscle' amp makes little sense ... pictured with a Clones 25 amp which sounded very nice indeed.
Can only accept cash on collection but can pre arrange BT or PPG
They are obv monsters and circa 50kg each so collection only it is safe to say ! .... but bring some gear to audition by all means .....
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_154631_zpsj1nok38h.jpg
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20150817_123723_zpscuvvqtzm.jpghttp://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_154722_zpsal4nxrva.jpghttp://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_154928_zpsrjeviyd0.jpghttp://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_155143_zpsezjfvi38.jpg
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/EBeach/IMG_2255_zpstp3tlfy7.jpg
Note to mods - these are my own speakers hence appearing on here, we will be listing new equipment under Trade seller in time - I hope this is acceptable.
The speakers were on eBay under SW1X umbrella (@ higher price obv) but we will soon cease selling SW1X products on eBay UK as it is not the right forum for premium new audio and we will be announcing a new dealership soon ...... prices will rise but we are very confident we are still extremely competitve and we will hopefully reach our target market and build the brand.... and also hope to list on here too under a Trade profile
"marmite' design (love it or hate it) - I'm firmly in the former camp, although I can't pretend they will work or necessarily appeal in a smaller room.
Sound is stunning and finish is special too - £2,250 FIRM --- can't really listen to offers at this price.
Specs
A semi open baffle cabinet, based on a well known design but heavily tweaked - professionally made of highest grade birch plywood (not MDF) in black, finished with 7 coats piano lacquer
The high sensitivity drivers are all vintage drivers from the 50s with AlNiCo magnets and ultra light ORIGINAL cones:
3.5” Grundig gold tweeters with ultra thin, light cones and large AlNiCo magnets
8” SABA mid woofer green cones with hard to find Tigges AlNiCo magnets (10K Gauss magnetic flux density ones)
15” ALTEC 416A AlNiCo woofer for the bass- legendary and RARE 8 Ohm voice coil version drivers with their ORIGINAL (not re-coned!) cones
Resistor-less X-over which includes:
JENSEN copper foil paper in oils for the Grundig tweeters
PIO capacitors throughout
JANTZEN flat foil and toroidal inductors with lowest series resistance available
Optimised point to point silver plated copper in Teflon wiring
Total nominal speaker impedance is around 6 Ohms without dips below 5 Ohms
Sensitivity of the speakers is not less than 96 dB/W/1m, which makes them ideal for low power Tube amplifiers (single ended in particular) but work well with anything frankly although a 'muscle' amp makes little sense ... pictured with a Clones 25 amp which sounded very nice indeed.
Can only accept cash on collection but can pre arrange BT or PPG
They are obv monsters and circa 50kg each so collection only it is safe to say ! .... but bring some gear to audition by all means .....
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_154631_zpsj1nok38h.jpg
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20150817_123723_zpscuvvqtzm.jpghttp://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_154722_zpsal4nxrva.jpghttp://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_154928_zpsrjeviyd0.jpghttp://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/20140910_155143_zpsezjfvi38.jpg
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t616/Chrismoore50/EBeach/IMG_2255_zpstp3tlfy7.jpg
Note to mods - these are my own speakers hence appearing on here, we will be listing new equipment under Trade seller in time - I hope this is acceptable.
The speakers were on eBay under SW1X umbrella (@ higher price obv) but we will soon cease selling SW1X products on eBay UK as it is not the right forum for premium new audio and we will be announcing a new dealership soon ...... prices will rise but we are very confident we are still extremely competitve and we will hopefully reach our target market and build the brand.... and also hope to list on here too under a Trade profile