[Spridgets] Speakers From the 70's

[Kirk Hargreaves]

I have two twelve inch speakers from the early 70's that I use for monitors
in my little recording studio at home.

Each one weighs about 60 lbs (at least as I had to hoist them up on shelves
that I built).

They are in very large cabinets with curved side to back, interior, void
free ply, all designed to allow the speaker to push the sound in a balanced
manner.  They also have large ports on the top and the bottom fronts.

They remind me of the speakers used in Studio Two EMI back in the late
60's.

I have never in my life heard anything better than these old speakers.  .
ever.

And I bought them from a garage sale for $20.0 (for both).

I also used to have a tube stereo amp that I wish I had never sold.  The
sound of a clean LP on a decent turntable with a good magnetic cartridge,
into a tube amp and then into good speakers is the BOMB!  Hearing in
analogue mode like this really makes a difference compared to the digital
realm that we are more accustomed to.

Kirk