vintage_heath
Responses from vintage_heath
| What is the first album you purchased, and do you still have it? The year was 1964 and I was 9 years old when I got the Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album, South of the Border. I played that album over and over. It was part of the reason (probably a big part) of why I became a trumpet player! I selected hi... | |
| What were your humble beginnings on the path to high end audio? Wow! A lot of interesting equipment, most of which I remember well. I used to look forward to my family going to the local mall about every other week. My sister and mother would go clothes shopping and my father and I would go to the Lafayette Ra... | |
| We give up perspective to avoid tone controls I admit I have a less than purist attitude when it comes to tone control. I have different audio setups in different rooms. Different turntables, cartridges, tape decks, speakers, pre-amps, amps, etc. Tube and solid state. Depending on the source ... | |
| The ups and downs of tube vs. SS... Why does it have to be one or the other? Why not both? My house, although small, has more than one room. Tubes in one, solid state in the other. Switch on whichever makes you happy on any given day. The best of both worlds! | |
| Empire Grenadier 8000P I did find something about those ports on the Empire 8000P's. I'm now changing my mind and believe they were for more than packing and shipping. I found an old ad for them from 1966. It was on a French audio collectors website (of course it was al... | |
| Empire Grenadier 8000P Hi timlub,I don't know how long Empire continued to make these particular models of speaker as the amount of information on the web seems incomplete and sketchy at best. The 1964 Empire catalog listed the Empire Royal Grenadier 9000 with a 15" dow... | |
| Empire Grenadier 8000P I did give it a thought to get new ones made. I'll have to check into the pricing and selection. A friend of mine suggested I get synthetic marble and then drill and inset a series of individual LED's around the forward edge making a digital power... | |
| Empire Grenadier 8000P Hi roxy54,I did give them a preliminary listen to check to see if all the drivers worked. I had heard from some other folks that it was very common to find the tweeters and/or midranges nonfunctional due to an electrolytic corrosion problem betwee... | |
| Empire Grenadier 8000P Hi timlub,Thanks for your response. If I read the information I have found correctly, it should take you back to 1967 or maybe 1968. You are correct as they do have a 12" downward firing woofer and a midrange/tweeter plate that is shared with the ... |