3/30/2024 0 Comments Sat sme tonearm![]() Why did Sonabs not do better ? For those of you unfamiliar, they were an upward firing speaker with one woofer/mid and three or four tweeters arranged around the compass points firing into the air at 45 degrees or so. I think back now and cringe that the Thorens was just plonked on the sideboard and connected up ! Not a spirit level in sight !! Naivety. I still didn't have speakers, so bought a Wharfedale Glendale kit and built the cabinets in the woodwork shop in school. When I was 16 Noel decided he wanted a change so I bought his Thorens TD150 Mk1 (attrocious arm !!) and his Cambridge P40 (£50 all in, not bad !!). Couldn't afford speakers so had headphones. I saved my earnings and bought a Garrard SP25 MkIV with a Shure M3D and a Clive Sinclair amplifier. I had an £8 Phillips transistor permanently tuned to 208 Radio Luxembourg in the evenings. This was 1970 and I didn't have a discerning ear then. Showing off I suppose, as we all do from time to time. He was into Jazz and he played his hifi to me. I cleaned his cars and raked his lawns etc. I got into hifi at 14 years old when I worked for a gentleman farmer called Noel. Why did Sonab omnidirectional speakers not do better ?Īn anecdote now. ![]() What it doesn't take into account, I agree, is the reflected sound from walls, and ceilings for that matter. However, when in an audience, we are only at one of those degrees, so a loudspeaker firing that bit at us is reasonable. I agree, a cymbal radiates its sound throughout 360 degrees. ![]()
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