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 […]

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