"Archon" wrote in message
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On 7/28/2010 8:28 PM, Arfa Daily wrote:

Some of the 13 x 8s did have, and I seem to recall that some also had a
bracket fixed across the centre, which held a pair of black Mylar-coned
tweeters. The 13 x 8s that I used were the 'straight' bass version. I
built 3 ways with them, using the matching EMI 8 x 5s for the mids, and
they did indeed (still do) have a whizzer cone in the middle. The mids
are separately baffled by their own sub-enclosure behind them, and
inside the volume of the bass cabs. The tweeters are Eagle aluminium
domes. Very bright sound. I picked them because I loved the clarity that
they added to the top end of the sorts of music that I was listening to
back then - mainly heavy and progressive rock. The crossovers are also
Eagle. They used to make some good products. I guess they don't exist
any more. :-(

Arfa

Should have built the , Kef B139, B110, T27's, built them in 1976, still
using them, still sound awesome!
JC

Friend of mine has just built some ! He bought all the drivers way back
then, and has had them 'stored' ever since from lack of finance, skill, and
will. Then, last year, he decided to build them, so had a local joinery
place cut all of the boards for him. The job still took him the better part
of a year, but he finally finished them, and was then extremely disappointed
with the sound. However, he persevered with them, and eventually found that
they were extremely critical of their positioning in the room, and performed
loads better, when elevated from the floor. He now alternates between his
Quad electrostatics, and the Kefs, depending on what he is listening to.

Arfa