Townshend Allegri + Preamplifier by Jason Kennedy Editor of The Ear Online
It can be all too easy to take things for granted I find, you can use something for years and fail to find anything to better it and still don’t climb to the top of the nearest tower and shout about it. But when the manufacturer makes a change to it, the option to right […]
Paul Seydor Reviews The Seismic Podiums for Tracking Angle
Max Townshend was one of the most original and creative thinkers the world of high-end ever produced. Australian born and educated, he founded Townshend Audio in 1975. Among its initial products were a parabolic stylus for moving magnet pickups, one of the first moving coils to use a line-contact stylus, and the now near-legendary Rock […]
Interesting reading: Supertweeters and ultra high frequencies
In the early seventies, I made a version of the HQD speaker system which comprised two Hartley 24” bass drivers, a pair of stacked Quad ESL-57s and a pair of Decca Ribbon speakers (see http://www.marklev.com/systems/). The Decca’s were used as supertweeters here to augment the treble roll-off associated with the ESL-57s. Inevitably, the ribbons got damaged […]
My experience with Townshend Supertweeters
Yes, Maximum. I don’t come up with the names, I just review the stuff, okay? 😉 And I got em because everyone keeps telling me I should, and once again they are right. Whew! That was easy! Kidding! We will now laboriously delve into why you cannot live without these tweeters, that you can’t even […]