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Just checked, but does not seem to be on sale yet.
Attachment 11259This here cabinet has an eight inch speaker.
In a big open backed cabinet.
In those conditions you don't want a too floppy speaker.
What happens is that the cabinet reinforses the bass, while the smaller cone blasts out less of the rest.
Real basic 1933 superhet with rare and special Wonderlich detector tube (globe shape blue Acturus of course) and type 45 output tube.
It certainly sounds better than later ones with 12" speakers.
Sound's great for follwing the cricket, where we have convincingly trounced the West Indies in the serious test series.
Hard to find any music on the AM band these days.
I got chatting to a bright and cheery woman in the supermarket queue today, who is doing a Phd. We were talking about the brain and keeping it active. I said I wasn't about to retire and was still designing and building valve amplifiers. She had never heard of a valve. I said things sound better on a valve amplifier. I showed her my camera and said even my YouTube videos sound better on my valve amplifier. She was amazed.
Managed to get a good seat at the excellent "Civic" venue here in Auckland. In April the concert is. Certainly something to look forward to in 2014, which I reckon is going to be a good year.
About that time last year I was lucky enough to get a good seat there for Manhattan Transfer. That was certainly a good show.
Be spending some time absorbing live music, and general holidaying. Some transformer winding will be on though. There's a jukebox to sort, and David's Yank amp.
Preamp power supplies and BSEA amps to boot. About sixteen altogether with two BSEA amps. That should keep me entertained for a bit.
Meanwhile, there are three free jazz concerts to film for me YouTube channel, plus WOMAD, and other stuff. I am needed. I was the only one to cover the Bollywood stage at the Diwali Festival Of Light on YouTube. OK only Bollywood, but very popular all the same on TV.
There's the Chinese New Year Lantern Festival too, complete with unique music.
Not exactly HiFi, but not bad, and...captured.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSZTJz1l68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWIIMUcQBFU
Those clips are basically recordings of the bands' PAs, not so much live unprocessed.
The only ones I have to date of live natural sound is a bunch of fun videos I made on my old Canon camera at Waikawau Bay a couple of summers ago of some cavorting in the surf.
The surf high frequencies are certainly really good.
I'm not so sure about this newer one, which does have the wider screen, but the sound I have not yet tested under the same conditions. But also, I think that Silkboby dress could do with another cavort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqpaBeRBtUs