Hello Community,
My name is Steve Jain, it was my crazy idea to build THE FIFTEENS. I am crazy about the golden era of audio (which in my mind is up to the 1950-1960's). I like mechanical things, old things, and in general have a vintage mind.
It's my chubby bald self in the videos...
So what we wanted to do with THE FIFTEENS was create a romantically nostalgic speaker that took a lot of the good things from the golden era and marry them with what we believe todays consumer wants. As a huge vinyl van, I wanted to ensure that we enhanced the experience when using these with vinyl, so we added Moving Magnet AND Moving Coil phono preamp built-in (we may be the first to ever do this). Typically when you start your vinyl journey you start with a MM phono cartridge, and as you start to get more and more into vinyl you may want a MC cartridge and that necessitates a "step up transformer"...we wanted to take that mystery out of the equation.
We are getting some requests for a Passive version, but at this moment we are not looking at a passive version. If you want passive, look to our outstanding current and new Heritage Collection of speakers.
I am crazy excited about the response to some of my crazy ideas for the new products (Heritage Wireless, Powergate Max, The Fifteens, The Sixes and the new Headphones), I have an amazing team and you can rest assured we will keep pushing the envelope on whats possible from a material composition standpoint. We are focused on celebrating our history and blending the 70 year legacy with todays streaming and digital world. More crazy ideas coming...I promise!
