I can’t agree with you more. The A’s we’re so right for the time. After about a year, I horse traded them for a pair of Ohm F’s which were a whole different can of worms!
Old school shootout: Snell A/III vs. Original B&W 801
I miss Snell so much, especially the A/III. Amazing imaging on and off axis and bass that made you think they could pop your room apart like a balloon.
Along this time the original B&W 801s also were making the rounds, and ... I'd still take Snell every time.
One of the weird combos that was popular was Audio Research + B&W and man, I hated that combination. It was so gutless and lean.
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I managed an Audio store in 1980 and we carried the Snell Line. I ordered the Snell crossover designed for the type A and bi-amped them with a Threshold Stasis ll on bass and the Stasis 3 for the upper midrange and high frequencies. Dialing in that cross over. Wow. I kick myself for not buying a pair of those and as a retailer you had an employee purchase program which enabled you to buy them at half of retail. Wish I made more money back then. |
In Boston we had a radio show called Shop Talk on WBUR that was the model for the much more widely known Car Talk. It featured a psychiatrist audiophile and a physicist playing the romantic music lover vs the hard-headed objectivist. The shrink had double KLH 9s and Marantz 9s at home but the objectivist had Snell As and Apt Holman amps in vertical biamp in his home. I was present for a listening session with a mutual friend who recorded local orchestras with a Revox A77 and DBX NR, live feed to 2 channel with no compression (beside the compander). Memorable. The source material was far superior to LPs and the speakers sounded magnificent, full bodied and tonally true. |
Modern A3? http://szemis.nazwa.pl/type_a/index.html |
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