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I found this French company on YouTube. They have been around since 1938. The Heritage line is interesting.

 
I found this French company on YouTube. They have been around since 1938. The Heritage line is interesting.

Makes me think of Heresy's without the horns. Roughly 2.5 cu ft internal, an educated guess. Would be interesting to hear:)
 
Makes me think of Heresy's without the horns. Roughly 2.5 cu ft internal, an educated guess. Would be interesting to hear:)
You mean like an EV Esquire 200? :confused: :cool:

OK, they gots one horn, but it's an itty-bitty one... and the horrible Heresy squawker is (ahem) corrected to a rather nice EV LS-8 twincone :)
(notice that this early 1960s range of EV "Low Resonance Speakers" presaged EV's somewhat later VMR vented midrange ;) )
 
You mean like an EV Esquire 200? :confused: :cool:

OK, they gots one horn, but it's an itty-bitty one... and the horrible Heresy squawker is (ahem) corrected to a rather nice EV LS-8 twincone :)
(notice that this early 1960s range of EV "Low Resonance Speakers" presaged EV's somewhat later VMR vented midrange ;) )
Kinda yes! Looks like the same tweeter that I had in my gone Heresy's. My first version Heresy never found happiness with me. I tried everything that I could try, even porting them which even Klipsch finally did, but alas, they survive now only in partial cabinet form. No ill will toward Klipsch or all that enjoy them. Their blessing for me was one day when I tried listening to them with their backs removed, my slip into "heresy" but led me in the direction of open baffle where I lived happily ever after, at least so far:)
 
Kinda yes! Looks like the same tweeter that I had in my gone Heresy's. My first version Heresy never found happiness with me. I tried everything that I could try, even porting them which even Klipsch finally did, but alas, they survive now only in partial cabinet form. No ill will toward Klipsch or all that enjoy them. Their blessing for me was one day when I tried listening to them with their backs removed, my slip into "heresy" but led me in the direction of open baffle where I lived happily ever after, at least so far:)
It is indeed the same tweeter (well, it's an EV T35B in the Esquire -- I think PWK used the slightly beefier T35). EV, however, always managed to make these diffraction horn tweeters less hostile-sounding in their loudspeakers (and their coaxes) than did the Colonel's crossovers. :confused: :rolleyes:
 
You mean like an EV Esquire 200? :confused: :cool:

OK, they gots one horn, but it's an itty-bitty one... and the horrible Heresy squawker is (ahem) corrected to a rather nice EV LS-8 twincone :)
(notice that this early 1960s range of EV "Low Resonance Speakers" presaged EV's somewhat later VMR vented midrange ;) )
I have all the drivers in that EV speaker. Maybe I should build a pair to compare to my Heresy’s. But neither would be as good as my Altec OB setup.
 
I have all the drivers in that EV speaker. Maybe I should build a pair to compare to my Heresy’s. But neither would be as good as my Altec OB setup.
I find them decidedly superior to the Heresy. But, no, not in the league of real Altec componentry (of course) -- but not the same cost, either.
As it happens... I have an extra pair of Esquire cabinets in the basement with nothing in 'em except the original crossovers. I am just sayin'. ;)

We Altec here, too, but not on OB (FWIW).

I promise I'll stop mucking up this loudspeaker thread with these EVs (!) but I want to mention one other thing. The MR and tweeter in the Esquire (and presumably also its other three siblings, or at least the two better ones!) are in a separate subenclosure. The MR driver, as I mentioned earlier, is vented (as can easily be seen in the photo). The woofer is in a 'sealed' chamber (probably technically an IB, not an acoustic suspension alignment). Interesting loudspeakers -- they really were. :)

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