Vintage HiFi Audio Forum
Audio Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: tinpan on December 22, 2010, 05:49:21 PM
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Richmond is 1 hour away from my house. Any guesses on what it is?
Shipment Information
Status Arrived
Estimated Delivery 23-Dec-2010
Signature
Service Level Guaranteed Saver
Shipped Date 20-Dec-2010
Origin Forest Park, IL, US
Destination Goldvein, VA, US
Package Information
Number of Pieces 2
Weight 505.0 L **
Total Volume 505.0 L
View Dimensions View Dimensions
History
Date Time Pieces Activity Location Remarks
22-Dec-2010 0658 1 Arrived Richmond, VA, US
22-Dec-2010 0215 1 Departed Philadelphia, PA, US
22-Dec-2010 0130 1 Scanned Philadelphia, PA, US
22-Dec-2010 0130 1 Arrived Philadelphia, PA, US
21-Dec-2010 2330 1 Departed Newark, NJ, US
21-Dec-2010 2159 1 Scanned Newark, NJ, US
21-Dec-2010 2025 2 Arrived Newark, NJ, US
21-Dec-2010 0300 2 Departed Chicago/O~hare Airport, IL, US
20-Dec-2010 2343 2 Scanned Chicago/O~hare Airport, IL, US
20-Dec-2010 1912 2 Shipment Labeled Chicago/O~hare Airport, IL, US
20-Dec-2010 1500 2 Received Chicago/O~hare Airport, IL, US
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Gotta be speakers...congrats on your new Christmas present!!!! 8)
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Does look like speakers to me.
Weight 505.0
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Does look like speakers to me.
Weight 505.0
Holy Mother~!
Did you buy a pair of Jubilees?? :o
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Either speakers, or a single Levinson Nº33 monoblock!
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Come on Tinpan...fess up!!!!
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Maybe he ordered a Bose Wave radio for every forum member! ;D ;D
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Mail Order Bride? :o
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Dang, rough crowd leaving it up to your imagination.
Two set of speakers on their way to me, no jubilees, Levinson Mono Blocks.
To make matters worse the Rat bastards at DB shenk, the heartless shipping company told me they wouldn't bring them out till next week.
So I hopped in my trusty Toyota pick up truck and headed to Richmond airport last night. There were two big crates and unfortunately I could only fit one crate in my truck.
(http://images58.fotki.com/v497/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMAG0080-vi.jpg)
Here is what was inside:
(http://images41.fotki.com/v209/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3164-vi.jpg)
Lowther Alerion's with the DX-65 driver
See how nice they fit in?
(http://images112.fotki.com/v494/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3165-vi.jpg)
The second box arrived from UPS and it has the drivers for my other set of speakers. These are the Lowther PM5a drivers:
(http://images56.fotki.com/v773/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3166-vi.jpg)
I HAD to drink that beer so you could see the scale of the magnet
Little tiny 8 inch driver with a 10 lb magnet:
(http://images41.fotki.com/v209/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3167-vi.jpg)
When I picked up my first crate the shipping company said they would probably deliver the other crate next Wed to Thurs. bastards, looks like I'll be hitting the airport again Monday.
Been saving a long time for these puppies, it's nice to see them finally start to straggle in.
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Lowthers?
I heard they suck.
Kidding. I'm jealous. Those are an awesome set, especially the transmission lines!
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That picture is classic, i love the pipes and banjo...oh yeah and the speakers aint bad neither.
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Congrat's Tinpan
They look like a work of art, have a safe drive to Richmond airport on Monday
Brian
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Very nice.
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I had never heard of Lowthers. :o
So I Googled them. ;D
Quite an interesting concept and history. :-*
Looks like a real keeper.
Bill Cain
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Excellent, great stuff you have. :o
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Finally got my Medallion cabinets in Wednesday. Course I was sicker thana dog so i couldn't do anything with them untill Thursday. Anyway here they are;
(http://images110.fotki.com/v606/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3249-vi.jpg)
It's actually a lot taller than I thought it would be. Here is a shot with the grill cover off. Pretty basic, one driver, no cross overs and a folded horn for the bass to exit. You can see the mouth of the horn two thirds of the way down the speaker. The cats love folded horn openings. They learned the hard way to NOT go in the Lascala openings ;D .
(http://images54.fotki.com/v1615/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3250-vi.jpg)
Here's the cabinet with the grill screen on. These were used cabinets. The way Jon described them I thought I was going to have to refinish them. Heck i like them fine the way they are, very presentable. These less expensive cabinets let me upgrade to the PM5a driver.
I need to run them at regular listening levels for about 30 hours to let them break in. I am about 16 hours into that process now. Probably be tomorrow afternoon when i can inch them up a little
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Oh...one more thing. I like the plywood cabinets. I hate MDF and i don't care what anyone says about the "better sound" it produces.
Another nice touch is the Cardas speaker posts and the Jenna wire that runs from the posts to the speakers. This is the first time I have seen these Cardas speaker posts and I really like them. They work really well with my speaker cables
(http://images16.fotki.com/v272/photos/6/111916/8324195/IMG_3252-vi.jpg)
See how nice those River Current cables look on the back of my Lowther Medallions?
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I see those originated in Forest Park, IL.....about 45 mins from me.....private sale?