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For sale on ebay:http://www.ebay.com/itm/VMPS-Tower-II-Super-Tower-Vintage-Speakers-Tower-II-R-2240-2-recycle-/331243811896?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276#ht_5575wt_1573
I love the Diapason...heard them decades ago at Las Vegas CES, Riviera Hotel (back in the day when there was a Chicago Summer CES). Same year I heard the big IMF transmission line speakers and Dunlavy's Duntech Sovereign 2000. WOW! What a CES that was.With all due respect to Richard Shahinian, our Late Ceiling Splash radiation pattern pretty well sends Diapason home on the truck, which was cutting edge thirty years ago. LCS meets all four of Toole's and Gedde' criteria for ideal reverberant field, whereas Diapason falls short in three criteria and completely lacks one. To Shahinian's great credit, I mention him and his implementations in my Patent Application. Further increasing respect for Shahinian is the fact that Toole and Geddes had written nothing on the subject when Diapason arrived.With high level of certainty I believe if Brian was alive now, at least one VMPS model would have LCS radiation pattern. IIRC, it was Dr. Robert E. Greene who noted, Newport THE Show had about five speakers (including our AudioKinesis Zephrin 46) with novel implementation of reverberant field theories, high end audio's "final frontier" (in homage to NCC-1701).
The description of what you call LCS reminded me a bit of my beloved Diapasons, which is why I posted the link. I'm glad you like your creation, and I'm sure it sounds glorious, but we'll see if it's still around 40+ years from now, which is about how long Shahinian Acoustics has been in business. The Diapaison was, I believe, introduced in 1987 and has remained relatively unchanged since then. Vasken explained that they have changed the drivers slightly since the early versions, but performance has changed very little. I also own other Shahinian speakers, including a pair of late 70's Obelisks and all share the same voicing and musical presentation. While the Obelisk driver complement and arrangement has changed since the early models, the basic design goals have remained consistent, and their speakers are the only ones I've owned from the late 70's that used all film caps in the crossover. Much of the Shahinian designs were inspired by the work of the great Stu Hegeman, whose speaker are still marketed under a different banner.After looking at the LCS product on a link I found by googling, I think your basic design might be a difficult sell. The Shahinians generate a great deal of reflection from the ceiling in a relatively small footprint and WAF friendly presentation. Do you offer a product with the ceiling reflection in a single enclosure?
Of every used VMPS model you guys posted here since Brian left us, this is unquestionably the best deal IMO. For several reasons this is one of Brian's best efforts. I'm convinced, after assembling hundreds of TII models of this era:The "arc" mid-treble driver array is audibly superior to the vertical line array of the so-called more costly TII SE special edition...yes, I know this is anti-intuitive and don't care, I only assembled hundreds of both models and owned them both...I gave up trying to figure out what was better about the older model and this is the only item I can attribute it to.This is unequivocally, by good margin, the best cone mid Brian ever sold...his own design, USA made, graphite loaded poly, gauze dust cap, rubber surround, better than the Asian-sourced Versa Tronics WCF (again, from the SE line)...the reason WCF came and went in loudspeaker drivers is because the best thing about it is also the worst thing: when employed in a mid range the CF self damps to such great degree that it has no untoward resonance, but it also severely lacks dynamic snap...it softens too much the transient speed.If I was closer I'd buy these just have them. Condition looks superb. These kick butt to cutoff in the mid-high 20 Hz range. This is the absolutely best ever TII model by huge margin. The only driver I don't like so much is the Morel dome (never liked even the upgrade MDT33). I'd replace it with Scan Speak's lovely D29 series and redo only the dome crossover, and that's it. The planar driver is the JVC clone, a good driver. Well, there are other items worth changing, but they'd be far more intrusive and would completely change the whole Gestalt (but would improve performance). You'd not believe how good these sound with a killer tube amp. Do not, I repeat, it is illegal to biamp this speaker unless both amps are identical. The QSO crossover splits the inputs between the mid and two tweeters. Go straight to Guantanmo. Killer deal. Get this speaker. I sold to the assistant director of In The Heat Of The Night two of these and two ST/R, both in walnut like this, with brown grills. Brown grills look fantastic on these walnut veneer models. You can change the cloth but it takes a good degree of effort.
SAWAFUJI DYNAPLEAT / DYNA RIBBON Speakers. Rare. Used by VMPS - (Pennington, New Jersey) $70 Opening Bidhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/SAWAFUJI-DYNAPLEAT-DYNA-RIBBON-Speakers-Rare-Used-by-VMPS-/191230100370?pt=US_Speaker_Parts_Components&hash=item2c8633c392"This auction is for a pair of rare SAWAFUJI DYNAPLEAT / DYNA RIBBON Speakers.Used by VMPS in their flagship.Condition usedAll original parts. No grills on speakers.One shows split on the diaphram (see picture).Dimensions: 6"H x 6"W" x 1"D"
Stimpy, you found my ad for a pair of Original Subwoofers!
What is GLWTS?It isn't listed in several acronym sites.
