Ben Brill

Cheers, Gil! I appreciate any submissions you can offer. I'll be cooking this up over the course of several weeks, so whenever you get a chance. I agree with your assessment of file types: jpg for photos, gif for text-scans. But, anything, in any format is welcome, and I'll sort it out here. benjaminbrill'at'hotmail.com benjaminbrill'at'yahoo.com Both these accounts have severe space limits, but I can take maybe 2 megs at a time, and I'll clear 'em out pretty promptly for more. Thanks again! Ben

It has often been brought up that vintage Electro-Voice products are underrepresented on the Web. Where Altec-Lansing/JBL, Heathkit, Dyna and most other vintage pro-/hobbiest hi-fi marks have many dedicated sites, there are few, or none, dedicated to EV. I'm taking an HTML class for which I'm expected to create a website. With your help, I'd like to create the foremost collection of EV literature, specs, pictures and other information, focusing on vintage consumer hi-fi and hobbiest products including drivers, cabinets, speakers and crossovers; tuners, control/pre-amplifiers, and amplifiers. I am looking for any material you can email on Electrovoice, Wolverine, Michigan, and OEM'd drivers for Klipsch, Allied/Knight, or other. Plans or illustrations of cabinet designs, from the Baronet through the Patrician. Tuners, Tuner/preamplifiers, control amplifers, circlotron amplifiers, whatever you've got, I'd love to have a copy, and get it all in one place. Links too! Any and everything! Please contact me at benjaminbrill'at'hotmail.com Thanks very much for your help!

It has often been brought up that vintage Electro-Voice products are underrepresented on the Web. Where Altec-Lansing/JBL, Heathkit, Dyna and most other vintage pro-/hobbiest hi-fi marks have many dedicated sites, there are few, or none, dedicated to EV. I'm taking an HTML class for which I'm expected to create a website. With your help, I'd like to create the foremost collection of EV literature, specs, pictures and other information, focusing on vintage consumer hi-fi and hobbiest products including drivers, cabinets, speakers and crossovers; tuners, control/pre-amplifiers, and amplifiers. I am looking for any material you can email on Electrovoice, Wolverine, Michigan, and OEM'd drivers for Klipsch, Allied/Knight, or other. Plans or illustrations of cabinet designs, from the Baronet through the Patrician. Tuners, Tuner/preamplifiers, control amplifers, circlotron amplifiers, whatever you've got, I'd love to have a copy, and get it all in one place. Links too! Any and everything! Please contact me at benjaminbrill'at'hotmail.com Thanks very much for your help!

Wow, nice work hifi. You're doing a great service to the internet! Thanks again!

Thanks Tom, hifi and John for your responses. It didn't take me too long to decide that the Cornwalls pretty much trounce the Trusonics. A few more backs and forths between the two systems made the Stephens sound more and more like a transistor radio by comparison. I'm starting to feel somewhat like that Yugoslavian zealot Cornwall fan in my appreciation for these speakers. My wife'll be a little disappointed that the monolithic Cornwalls won't be displaced. heh. Thanks again.

Thanks Hifi and John for sharing your resources; I appreciate it soo much! I've done some inital listening through my 150cx's, and a little comparing to the Cornwalls, but what a hassle. My room is small and both pairs of speakers are bloody huge. Also, I'm a fairly inexperienced listener, with little audio memory. Psychoacoustics are probably more at play than physics, but anyway: At this point, the CWs have the upper hand. The CWs, however, have the advantage of being up off the floor, while the Trusonics are a few inches off the ground in boxes that are probably less than ideal. Here's what I've noticed: As is, the 150CXs are very listenable: there's no low bass, very little mid-bass, but excellent upper-bass and midrange. There's something of a hole somewhere towards the upper range of the full-range cone, before the tweeter kicks in. The treble is excellent, I think that toroidal tweeter is pretty awesome: clear, smooth and laid back. The Cornwalls seem to have more balanced response. More tuneful and useful bass, and that upper-mid region sounds better to me on the Klipsch, although I might just be used to that sound. I played a large variety of mostly rock through the Trusonics, doing only very little cable-swapping back'n'forth between speakers. The most telling recording was Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved A Man..." LP, original mono. I chose this because it has great bass all over it, and the difference in this area was readily apparent. This record also brought out the differences in that upper mid, female vocals, area. I suppose some tweaking could resolve many of the deficiencies of the 150cx compared to the CW. Especially a box that helps out in the lower and mid bass. I also suspect that crossover components may have drifted such that the tweeter is coming in too late. That tweeter is REAL nice, in any case, one to keep in mind if you find the EV-T35 to be unpleasant. Thanks again for the background info and I'll update ya's as I tinker further.

Here's a shot at a brochure for Eames-designed Stephens Tru Sonic enclosures, that just sold on ebay for a damn fortune. But, if you look closely at the price for the 206AX... looks like $162.50 to me. What did an Altec 604 go for back in the day? Less than that I'll bet. My 150CXs are 1965, so sometime later than those illustrated in the brochure.

I just recently brought home a pair of heavily built cabinets housing a pair of Stephens Tru-Sonic 15" coaxials. Model is 150CX, with a "bullet" tweeter. John Warren, or djk, I'm hoping youse might have data for these, or similar drivers. The cabs are open backed, but everything I read of coaxial (altec, goodmans, tannoy, etc) indicates that ported boxes are preferred; any comment? I'll be squaring them off against a pair of '72 Cornwall 2's (Vertical horns), and hope to be able to post impressions and comparisons soon. Thanks very much! Cheers!