Yet more speakers......

BrumjamBrumjam
in Loudspeakers
One can never have too many....

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This is a pair of ART Alnico 8 loudspeakers finished in American oak :x. These were kindly delivered by the Ramsay brothers who own ART and interestingly also Systemdek which I didn't realise until yesterday. I've got them for a week or so and intend to get as many hours listening as possible....which will be quite easy when they sound as good as they look.

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  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited May 2015
    They are a somewhat different proposition to my ageing, cheapo Wharfdales...! :D
    Yours do look luverly... :)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Very nice!
  • sovereignsovereign
    edited May 2015
    They do look good, especially compared to my kitchen work tops

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    [Docfoster Edit ... James, you really must learn how to post a piccie ... :-B ]
  • BrumjamBrumjam
    edited May 2015
    Your links aren't working James.

    [Docfoster Edit ... now ficsed... ]
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited May 2015
    Anyone fancy a project...?
    18 drivers (including the big ones round the back) in one old pair of Goodmans... >:)
    £14.99...?!
    Hubba Hubba...
    http://ebay.co.uk/itm/291467451231?nav=SEARCH
  • sovereignsovereign
    YOU NEED TO SEEK COUNCIL BEN, Either that or a beating from the wife.
  • PACPAC
    Ben needs a "Mutley" Medal pinned to his chest for services to speaker hoarding.

    18 Drivers?  No probs Ben.  Crossover for that could take a while though....
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    He's really not well, Paul, but he's on the next series of The Speaker Hoarder Next Door, so they'll sort him out.
  • sovereignsovereign
    Dave, you should send in that busty woman with the white coat and latex gloves from 'How Clean is Your House' she'll sort him out, good and proper! X_X
  • PACPAC
    The imagery of Ben being sorted out by a busty woman wearing latex gloves has just put me off pudding James.... :-&
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    The imagery of Ben being sorted out by a busty woman wearing latex gloves has just put me off pudding James.... :-&
    Have you lot seen my wife's Facebook page, then...?
  • sovereignsovereign
    edited May 2015
    ;;)
  • sovereignsovereign
    Kim Woodburn.jpg
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Kim Woodburn.jpg
    No "hubba hubba" for that one I'm afraid...
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Check out these Dimension 8s...clicky...
    Actually being sold as a table.
    A table.


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    Not sure whether to applaud the creativity of weap at the sacrilege...

    Things of beauty...
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  • DocfosterDocfoster
    The imagery of Ben being sorted out by a busty woman wearing latex gloves has just put me off pudding James.... :-&
    Hmmmm...

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  • PACPAC
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    Hmmmm......That' s not quite what I had in mind.......................................................

    Perhaps it was more like this...............................................................................................................................................

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  • DocfosterDocfoster
    It's a close call, and I suppose in Dursley beggars can't be choosers, but I think I'll stick with mine if that's OK...
    :D
  • PACPAC
    Just stop stealing our Dursley Gals Ben and come take your own away  :P
  • Suzy6toesSuzy6toes
    edited May 2015
    Time for the female voice of this forum to speak up I think, before you lads get yourselves into too much of a frenzy!
    It is, of course, a female who has come to save Ben from his speaker hoarding, Though the bustiness of said gal shall remain rightfully undeclared!!
    Yes, I have heroically stepped in and relieved Ben for the time being of his Wharfdales, which are doing a very fine job of bassing up my place a treat.
    B-)
    Am at the mo maxing bass by only having them slightly raised, and pushed quite close to the wall (which is making the water in the fish tank ripple nicely!) Ideally need a slightly higher rise but, god , this stuff's expensive if you actually have to fork out for it as opposed to nicking it off your mates!
    No idea how to post piccies, but you lot seem to have sufficiently vivid imagination 
    :D

    [Docfoster edit...
    Ere yew go...]

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  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Glad you've been having fun.
    I was quite surprised once I'd got them up and running how OK they were.
    Sound like a proper 3 way.
    Very position sensitive too, which made them fun to play around with.
    I'll let you have some 9 inch stands I've got for an intermediate height option.
    <:-P
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    BTW I like that you have a piece involving Jah Wobble lined up there...
    Befitting the bass-orientation of the evening.
    B-)
  • Suzy6toesSuzy6toes
    Ta for photies.
    Yep, good ole Radio 6 had a well timed bass line up this afternoon :-)
    Thanks for offer of stands. Will defo take you up on those.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    edited May 2015
    Ta for photies.
    Yep, good ole Radio 6 had a well timed bass line up this afternoon :-)
    Thanks for offer of stands. Will defo take you up on those.
    And just between you and me, and to complete a circle...
    Jah Wobble plays bass on The Orb's "Blue Room", which comes immediately before "Towers of Dub" (that we were discussing off-forum earlier) on the "U.F.ORB" album.

    BTW a couple of days ago I ordered the full length CD single of "Blue Room", which at 39:58 minutes is the longest ever single to get into the UK top 40 (peaked at number 8 in 1992). Apparently The Orb had intended in to be a few minutes longer, but at the time Gallop had stipulated that any song over 40 minutes would be classified as an album, and so The Orb cut it down to just under 40 minutes...

    You may remember their performance on Top of The Pops comprised of Alex Paterson and, I think, Thomas Fehlmann playing chess on stage as their track played in the background...

    Good grief. That was 23 years ago. X_X


  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Ooh. I'll see if the Jah Wobble is on iPlayer. I's partial to a bit of Wobble.
  • PACPAC
    Just tried Jah Wobble on the H2s and it made just about everything wobble @-)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    No wibbling with the wobbling, then?
  • PACPAC
    edited May 2015
    Absolutely no wibbling to report, only wobbling.  If the H2s were to wibble, then wobble, they'd all fall down.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    No they wouldn't...

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  • uglymusicuglymusic
    That's weebling, Doc. A kind of strange Frensch variation on wibbling, I think you'll find.
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    That's weebling, Doc. A kind of strange Frensch variation on wibbling, I think you'll find.
    Ah. So to "garlic-eating surrender-monkeys" we can now add the prefix "weebling"...

    8-|
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Got half an eye on this...

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    Clicky
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    That's weebling, Doc. A kind of strange Frensch variation on wibbling, I think you'll find.
    Ah. So to "garlic-eating surrender-monkeys" we can now add the prefix "weebling"...

    8-|
    Ah so. "Weebling garlic-eating surrender-monkeys" in its fullness.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Got half an eye on this...

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    Clicky
    You know that's a bass cab, don't you? Or are you going to use it for your Jaco-esque ambitions?
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    Got half an eye on this...

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    Clicky
    You know that's a bass cab, don't you? Or are you going to use it for your Jaco-esque ambitions?
    I know what it is.
    I'm sure I can work out something to do with an 18 inch bass driver...
    Not sure what that something might be...
    Subwoofer project...?
    @-)
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