WAGAMAMA HIGH SPEC OC REDDIT MANUAL

They played a good pressing of Dark Side of the Moon: I sat in religious silence and left speechless as I compared the sound of the Advents/ML/Supex with the sound in my bedroom of a system composed of Dual record player/Shure 91 ED/Grunding RTV 700 receiver (10 W/ch on 4 ohm!) and AR 4-x (with the unreliable and scratchy potentiometer for the tweeter level). The price of the MLs in (devalued) italian Liras was in the many millions and comparable to price of luxury sedan automobile. While now I am older, and slightly less penniless, I welcome the interval progress in speaker design and materials that brought us better choices and much, much better sound. This is a review and detailed measurements of the 'The New Advent Loudspeaker' vintage speaker, circa 1977.Īmir's review puts a smile on my face, as I think about the upward curve of domestic sound reproduction as but one of the myriad significant blessings in my life so far. The sample under test was kindly provided by our own Murphy. He has looked it over and replaced a crossover capacitor to make sure it has the value it originally had. This speaker is in reasonably good shape seeing how it is made out of fragile particle board: The woofer has been professionally reconed. I didn't take a picture of the back side but there is a 3-way switch to adjust the high frequencies. Story is that this was to adjust for lack of uniformity of the recordings of the era and not to tune the speaker.

WAGAMAMA HIGH SPEC OC REDDIT MANUAL

There is a site with a copy of the manual which I highly recommend to check out: I measured the difference as you will see later. It is written as if it is an article for a hi-fi magazine! It is very boastful of its design approach without appearing too arrogant. There is also this bit of advertising about it:Īs a woodworker, I detest particle board. It is horrible material and seemingly falls apart by just looking at it. Interesting that it didn't have this negative stigma then.įascinating that its max power rating was just 15 watts! I fed it a lot more than that. Measurements that you are about to see were performed using the Klippel Near-field Scanner (NFS). This is a robotic measurement system that analyzes the speaker all around and is able (using advanced mathematics and dual scan) to subtract room reflections (so where I measure it doesn't matter). It also measures the speaker at close distance ('near-field') which sharply reduces the impact of room noise. Both of these factors enable testing in ordinary rooms yet results that can be more accurate than an anechoic chamber. In a nutshell, the measurements show the actual sound coming out of the speaker independent of the room. I performed over 1000 measurement which resulted in error rate of about 1%. Reference axis was the tweeter center or as best I could determine through the grill. I think I was a bit to the right of the tweeter.

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