thanks in advance for looking. ***See Phish's original thread: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=181231 Phish didn't actually start this thread - but it morphed into a Tangent Speakers thread (because of me ) so I thought I would copy/split the thread. Sorry, Phish.
Just realised they reminded me of the Black Swan, I'm Wrong!!, back to the drawing board those drivers are late 70s early 80s?
Yes. Started in.... the late '70's and died in the early '80's. Rumour was they spend too much $ on R&D. Great speakers, well designed but poorly built pre and amp, turntable was a disaster. These were their last gasp, so to speak.
I recognised the Dalesford bass unit, guessed Audax dome which looks similar but smaller than the unit used in my Spendor SA3s. Guessed Tangent and looked for them in an old HiFi year book Simon
Do you have any info about Dalesford? I guess they were a small UK company of some sort... I've always been curious about them.
Gary, Dalesford were a small company specialising mainly in drive units based in Pudsey near Leeds up to 1983 when they ceased trading. There were copies made in the U.S.A. marketed under the name of Cambridge/Dalesford owned by Mission? some were sold by A&S speakers There seems to be very little info available about them but many of their drivers bared a slight resemblance to some of the Kef units like the 8" was very similar to the B200A and the D30/110 very similar to the B110 5" unit. Both the Kef units whilst they were in production were tauted as suitable replacements they worked reasonably well without too much attention being needed to the existing crossover. I am curious too, so will delve more. Looking at the T/S parameters they even resemble the the Kef units electronically This link below has details of the 10" Dalesford driver in the RS8 http://mpbarneyspeakers.googlepages.com/Dalesfordspecsheet.jpg/Dalesfordspecsheet-full.jpg Their is a company based in the UK which will be able to repair them, recone labs. http://www.ratechnology.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&id=7&chapter=0 The Dalesford D100/250 basic T/S parameters D100/250 Dia=254mm Pole dia=1.25"(33mm) Sens=88dbw Upper c/o frequency 3.5 Khz Fs=25hz Qms= 3.6 Qes=0.3 Qts= 0.28 Mms=35g Mech Compliance 1.1x10^-3 Cms (m/N) Sd=2.8 x 10^-2 m2 Vas = 120L B1= 10 LE=2.2mH Re= 6.5 Ohms Pe=100w Simon
Good morning. A nice rest? Notice us Gorts never sleep. Thanks - someone once mentioned that they were a UK "cottage industry" company (IOW something small....) so there is scant information.
I think the winner of your contest needs a pair of earplugs! Those were the brightest things I have ever heard!
