I have always enjoyed listening to music, even as a kid I preferred the stereo to the TV. As a result I have a sort of crazy stereo.
I do have lots of cds, and enjoy listening to them as well. As VERY few modern classical recordings come out on lp today.
These are my crazy horn speakers that are quite large but sound wonderful. The best thing is that they can be powered by low power amp. Low power means better sound most of the time, as long as your speakers are efficient. When I put on a recording of the Bach cello suites they sound just like a cello, they even vibrate like one. A friend helped me make them. They are called the Bigfun horns.
See, even the cats love low power tube amps! this particular one puts out a whopping 750 milliwatts. And I have to really turn up the volume to clip them. I know, pretty nuts.
there are two more of these full of records!
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Hello there! I like your Lowther speakers. And I miss the sound of vinyl, which I got away from after I came to have lots of small children running around my listening room. I'm using a high-end fullrange driver myself -- the Japanese-made "Feastrex" brand (not to be confused with Fostex) which has the (un?)enviable distinction of being the world's most expensive fullrange driver, by a large margin. (Where's the "smiley" for a frowning face?) But that's what happens when you get into extremely fussy hand building of a driver -- not unlike the building of fine musical instruments. I'm friends with the creator of the Feastrex drivers, Mr. Hal Teramoto, and it just so happens that he is a big fan of the cello -- so much so that he and I make a point of regularly attending the concerts of Japanese cellist Hidemi Suzuki here in Japan (which is where I'm writing from). In fact, it was listening to the sound of Mr. Suzuki's baroque cello in a hall of about 500 people that provided Mr. Teramoto with some important information that he needed to improve his speakers to get the sound he wanted. So in that sense, the sound of Feastrex loudspeakers owes a great deal to the cello. I have a good friend near Boulder who owns a pair of the Feastrex fullrange drivers and I'm sure he'd be happy to have you stop by any time if you'd care to have a listen. Their sound character is somewhat different from that of Lowther. My friend near Boulder is also a big fan of the cello; his son played the cello for many years but recently dropped it. (I believe it was to focus on piano instead.)
Now to get to the main point of my comment . . . I'm looking for a good luthier in the Denver area and if you could introduce me I'd be most grateful. Would you please let me know? My email address is cdwitmer [at] hotmail [dot] com . . . Or, if you reply here I will have a notice sent to me automatically. MANY THANKS! -- Chris Witmer, Tokyo
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