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Hillarious! http://www.etsy.com/listing/67666807/iracket-v3

All I remember about them is that they were OEM'd by JBL back in the 60s and were mostly used in commercial environments with Ampex RTR tape recorders in small movie houses and clubs.

¨The MMGs look SOOOOO much better in black Steve but the 3.6s do indeed look like something my son would have done without me looking over his shoulder.

Nice job Steve

Overall Speaker Performance 5 Overall Speaker Quality 5 Value For Money 5 Reliability 5 Factory Technical Support 5 (a small plastic shaving inside the power connector dignosed within 60 seconds over the phone) Factory Service Ease of Doing Business With Your Dealer 5 Ease of Doing Business With the Manufacturer Distribution Network Dealer Knowledge 5 Technical Innovation 5 Product Availability 5 Brand Currently Owned: Martin Logan Source Next Speaker Purchase: Why would I buy another speaker?

Welcome to the forum Sanford. You are safe here within our growing Carver powered ML owners community. I have the Sources and even my mother who hates anything stereo absolutely loves the way they look in my Bauhaus livingroom. Modern art indeed that also happens to sound incredible. Your wife has good taste!

My HT system is rather punk compared to most of yours; I use a matched set of Quest 5.1 aluminium HT speakers with the matching subwoofer. You can see the fronts and centre between the MLs and the sub way off tot he right side. Upgrading to an all Polk system later this year.

It doesn't take much in a "partition farm" full of open cubicles to get really noisy and any sort of personal privacy is all but impossible. All it takes is one loudmouth on the phone and everyoen else has to raise their voices to make themselves heard on the phone and then things get really crazy. It seems to be getting worse as time goes on and finding an partitionned office that is relatively quiet is all but impossible.

Pretty good guys! The technology is in fact a servo feedback amp. 3A first came out with it in a mass market bookshelf speaker, the Andante 40 and 60 (using a small horn tweeter) in the early 70s, closely followed by Philips of Netherlands. Philips used a piezo sensor to apply the feedback whereas 3A used a seperate feedback winding to measure the voice coil excursion and apply a correction signal through the internal servo amp allowing an almost flat woofer output. 3A then came out with the Master Control which is shown in the original pic. They next came out with a large floor standing model using a 15" woofer called the Master Control Studio (pic below, frequency response 24-35KHz +/-2db) and then the compact Ultra Linéaire with an 11" woofer and a dome super-tweeter replacing the ribbon. The next step was the Triphonic system which used 2 tiny satellite speakers and a large, coffee table subwoofer with either 3 or 4 woofers. These were particularly striking as they were styled to be elaborate furniture with hand rubbed finishes; one model of note was even done up in Chinese gold Cloisonné and burgundy or black laquer (wish I could find those pictures for you). Infinity did come out with a servo woofer design in 68 that used an internal microphone to supply the signal to be corrected by the amp, but it proved so unrelaiable that they had to do a complete redesign and eventually gave up on the technology before coming out with their better known and loved designs of the day The ServoStatic was a hybrid electrostatic/ribbon/subwoofer design. It was very high end, expensive speakers well beyond the price points that 3A and Philips were at.

No guesses guys? OK, time for a hint: It is French and the reason it is so heavy is that it was one of the first speakers to have a built in 150W amp,b ut the amp was not used to actually power the speaker ...... This technology has recently reappeard in high end subwoofers to make them more musical.

I get pretty decent sound using my Stax SRM212 headphone amp hooked up directly to the output of my NAD CDP adn my Stax SR-202 headphones. Stax also makes a cute portable version of its electrostatic headphones wit a tiny headphone amp that you can hook up to the back of any CDP or preamp. http://www.yamasinc.com/sr-001mk2.htm Another possibility is getting a good, but inexpensive DAC and hooking that up to your CDP and phones.

Closer Snow, right continent this time. Just follow the clues I left already. BTW, I remember dozens of British 3 way speakers from IMF, Celection, KEP, B&W, Spendor and Linn for example.

Not even close Snow. Wrong country, though I have to admit that they sounded pretty much like the huge old Infinity Reference Vs!