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[atmasphere]

Those Western Electric horns are quite a sight! A local museum here in town called the Pavek Museum (any audiophile visiting Minnesota owes it to themselves to visit the place) was the first place I saw one of those. They played it with a WE 211 amplifier that sat in a relay rack. Definitely a speaker with the efficiency needed but no bass response. Of course that invites limiting the bass response of the 45 even further, if a different speaker were to be the woofer or subwoofer.

Those things are kinda big though- not usually the sort of thing you see in someone's living room

 

[Michaels HiFi]

Those Western Electric horns are quite a sight! A local museum here in town called the Pavek Museum (any audiophile visiting Minnesota owes it to themselves to visit the place) was the first place I saw one of those. They played it with a WE 211 amplifier that sat in a relay rack. Definitely a speaker with the efficiency needed but no bass response. Of course that invites limiting the bass response of the 45 even further, if a different speaker were to be the woofer or subwoofer.

Those things are kinda big though- not usually the sort of thing you see in someone's living room

I keep telling my wife if we get rid of the couch, coffee table, side chair, and dinette table we'll have plenty of room for WE horns and appropriate bass modules.

 

[JDC]

I keep telling my wife if we get rid of the couch, coffee table, side chair, and dinette table we'll have plenty of room for WE horns and appropriate bass modules.

Good strategy!
I carved out a few more feet for my system (in our multi-use living room) a month or two ago. My stereo is separate from the TV on the other side of the room. We have no real desire for home theatre. Sooo, I managed to push the couch (slowly, over days) closer to the TV to make room for my subs on the outside of the main speakers. She didn't notice. When we are on the couch watching TV, I just say something like, "Isn't this big-screen TV great?"