End of Snell Acoustics?

While the legacy of Snell won't change by the silencing of this manufacturing company, it is still another unfortunate closure of a small company where engineering, design, handcrafting and customer care were important to it's employees, customers and local community.

I am the proud owner of nine Snell speakers. Decades of owner and audio magazine reviews support the company's philosophy of fine sounding and crafted products at each price level.

Perhaps D&M will sell the Snell company rights to another entrepreneur.

Despite their demise, I'm strongly tempted to get a pair of Snell B's to replace my thiel 2.3's. Do any of you Snell guys have any experience with the B's? I need a strong corner speaker, and those things are huge..any thoughts would be appreciated..

I had a set for a long time and they worked great- the setup was easy and I found that tubes drove them quite well.

I know of a set for sale that is part of an estate. Seems to me they only want about $1200 for the pair. Contact me if interested and I can hook you up with the sellers of the estate.

What do you folks think about the Type C/i from Snell? I have a pair that I was using as my mains while I rebuilt my big Infinity speakers and I found the Snells to be quite nice sounding, with very good bass and smooth mids/highs.

I was planning to sell them now that I'm done with the Infinitys, but I have become a bit attached to them.

Anyone else know this speaker?

Too bad. Great company that was very underated. I love my E-III's. Just had them re-foamed. I'm going to try my Quicksilver V4 amps on them as I think they would be quite tube friendly. Maybe easier for the Quickies to drive than my Vandersteen 3A Sigs. Anybody out there ever use Quicksilver V4 amps with Snell speakers?