Your First Loudspeaker

[Rare Bird]

Celestion 'Ditton 15XR'

[The Vinyl Adventure]

tannoy murcury m2

[John]

AE 109

[The Grand Wazoo]

Some Wharfedales - I can't remember the model but they were old when I got them. Quite small, almost cubic, 2-ways. Real walnut veneer, weighed a tonne. A mate later bought an identical pair only they were the 3-way export version. I had mine stolen & ended up with my mate's pair which I hung on to in a second system for years & years. They were the basis of many many experiments. I kept blowing tweeters & replaced them eventually, with an unburstable piezo thing from Maplin and bypassed the crossover for the bass driver allowing me to bi-amp them long before I ever heard of bi-wiring. What fun!

[Jonboy]

After my Brothers hand me down Rotels i bought a pair of Tannoy M2's from Richer sounds when they first came out in 1997 , still got them and use them in another Av system, i played my Audio Note set up through them recently and they still sounded quite good.

[smithy]

Wharfedale Dentons ,the ones in the plastic cabinets with the rounded corners.

[Techno Commander]

Goodmans Magnums.

[horace]

I inherited my Dad's AR 2AX as my first speakers. They were real beauties!

Funnily enough, my mum took them down from her attic not long ago - they'd spent about 25 years up there. She's going to keep them for me as a future restoration project.

They were replaced by a pair of the original Wharfedale Diamonds - cracking little speakers, but a good littlun will always struggle in comparison to a good biggun IMHO....

:)

Martin

[Clive]

Goodmans Twin Axiom 8 in diy sealed cabs.

[REM]

Wharfedale Lintons, cracking speakers, sold them on umpteen times but always ended up buying them back, had them (on and off) right through the 70's:).

[quadsugdenman]

Videotone Minimax - Hungarian made I think. Didn't last long. In my sisters loft now!!!

[Labarum]

I bought a Wharfedale 8 RS DD, not the Super 8 RS DD with the bigger magnet - I couldn't afford that - I was still at school.

I built a 2 cubic foot corner reflex enclosure to Wharfedale plans.

I thought it sounded quite good.

[Joe]

Goodmans RB35s. Then one of the bass units went and I gave them away.

[Barry]

Wharfdale 8/RS DD, 8" drive units with roll surround (RS) and a double diaphragm (DD): there was a smaller (~ 3") cone that acted as a tweeter. The 'crossover' was effected by the inertia of the main cone.

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They were installed in home-built, distributed port enclosures of ~ 1.5 cu ft, following Wharfdale's design instructions. (Wharfdale produced a DIY booklet describing various suggested enclosure designs for their 8/RS DD and 10/RS DD drive units.)

[Mothman]

Audiomaster MLS4. Bought them in 1980 when I was 19 and cost me about 6 weeks wages. Still got them today and they still sound wonderful.

[Effem]

My first speakers were a Wharfedale kit, something along the lines of the Linton as I recall. Very soon afterwards I upgraded to a pair of Celestion Ditton 15s

[Snoopdog]

Tannoy Cheviots in 1976.

[Alex_UK]

I'm in the Wharfedale club - 2nd hand pair of these:

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They were cheap!

Still think they look nice with the covers off:

http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/16/166736_thumb_cacbfc41a66eb86c604eaddffcc957d4.jpg

Most expensive pair of Wharfedale Linton XP2's recently sold on ebay... ? £5.19 - I'm gonna get some and see how "different" they sound... :lol:

[Mike]

Goodmans Maxim

[Batty]

Built some 16ohm eliptical full range jobbies during apprenticeship, they lasted as long as the receiver, then went to Koss pro 4AA headphones for a while before a pair of Heybrook HB3Rs.

[chris@panteg]

Tannoy mercury mk 1

[Haselsh1]

For me, the loudspeaker story started with a pair of Goodmans RB35's bought from Comet. These were quickly followed up by a pair of IMF Super Compacts bought from a proper Hi-Fi shop.

[Beobloke]

Eagle International AA-20. Biggish two way with 6.5" bass driver and 2" cone 'tweeter'. The crossover was a single capacitor!

They sounded very nice and I subsequently sold them to a friend who abused them all through university. They emerged battered but still working, however a winter sat in a damp shed finally killed them off.

[Marco]

My first 'proper' speakers were Mission 700-2 in 1981/82, which actually were rather fun to listen to on the end of my (then) Sondex S-230:


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:)

Marco.

[FuriousD]

Kef Coda 7 were my first proper set. Before that it was the crap that came with the hifi tower unit

[spendorman]

HI Fi News design Paralines about 1967.

Soon after, EMI 13"x8" with massive magnet, Celestion HF1300 and STC (now Coles) 4001G supertweeter. These units (two of each) supplied by family friend Jim Rogers. I still have the units in 2 1/2 cu ft cabinets which have a wall thickness of 1". Still sound excellent.