At St. Louis' HiFi showroom the LP record would have been played on a Thorens Turntable with an SME arm and an V15 cartridge , of the current type..
This would have fed into a McIntosh preamp and power amp combination. (Big McIntosh dealer , held lots of clinics) Probably a C24 or C26 preamp and some kind of BIG MAC power amp, at least a 2100 and possibly a 2300 which they did show.
The speakers I have never figured out what they were. It just never sank in. They were NOT Quad Electrostats of any kind nor were they Dahlquist speakers. Nor magneplanars which were probably not out yet. They were big, high mounted on the wall and square, with radiused corners maybe six inch radius. And they were probably six inches thick. About four feet square. They were in the "spensive stuff" room along with the JBL S8R system. They sounded great. I don't think I even knew who ELP were. The reason it was a wonderfully traumatic experience was 1) The synthesizer whipping back and forth through your head and 2) Bass unlike anything I had heard previously. The guy who put it on was older and a classical music guy and NOT a rock and roller but put it on with an impish grin because he knew it was going to blow minds.
https://www.engadget.com/2019-07-17-braun-le-speakers-line-pure-audio.htmlhttps://m.facebook.com/ghustwit/pho...-to-what-every-other-stereo/3126194374272889/
They looked like the above which actually were quad electrostats in a Braun Dieter Rams designed and built cabinet. This is the only thing I found on the net that looked even close. I could be misrembering the corner radius and I couldn't testify that they were a Braun dealer but they could have been since it would have catered to their archetectural design customers. They were high wall mounted looking like a work of art.
This would have fed into a McIntosh preamp and power amp combination. (Big McIntosh dealer , held lots of clinics) Probably a C24 or C26 preamp and some kind of BIG MAC power amp, at least a 2100 and possibly a 2300 which they did show.
The speakers I have never figured out what they were. It just never sank in. They were NOT Quad Electrostats of any kind nor were they Dahlquist speakers. Nor magneplanars which were probably not out yet. They were big, high mounted on the wall and square, with radiused corners maybe six inch radius. And they were probably six inches thick. About four feet square. They were in the "spensive stuff" room along with the JBL S8R system. They sounded great. I don't think I even knew who ELP were. The reason it was a wonderfully traumatic experience was 1) The synthesizer whipping back and forth through your head and 2) Bass unlike anything I had heard previously. The guy who put it on was older and a classical music guy and NOT a rock and roller but put it on with an impish grin because he knew it was going to blow minds.
https://www.engadget.com/2019-07-17-braun-le-speakers-line-pure-audio.htmlhttps://m.facebook.com/ghustwit/pho...-to-what-every-other-stereo/3126194374272889/
They looked like the above which actually were quad electrostats in a Braun Dieter Rams designed and built cabinet. This is the only thing I found on the net that looked even close. I could be misrembering the corner radius and I couldn't testify that they were a Braun dealer but they could have been since it would have catered to their archetectural design customers. They were high wall mounted looking like a work of art.
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