Some years ago I embarked on a road to replicate the “Adam and Eve” of cinema sound speakers. At that time many did raise their eyebrows saying build methods of the venerable WE12a and WE13a horns were hard and too expensive to master. Woodwork, castings, sourcing materials and getting wood from very same foresting areas […]
Sting on village square waiting to be taken away. Beautiful light today, 29ºc in May…nice! Happy owner will have it in a week so after 6000km journey. All fun….
Listen…. Okay it’s not a we555 but from an iPhone I’ll say not bad! All fun…
In the heart of Switzerland a 13Audio replica horn setup has been installed for what I can call a “very keen” listener “I” who is very happy playing mono even from stereo recordings, good man! I is also into his whiskey as I discovered when I opened the door behind the horns, does that help […]
Tim, Do we know what equipment the first talkies shown in Europe used? If early Vitaphone films (independent disk + film) were shown, it may be that there were 12As imported to Europe for that purpose in which case 12As may have been heard in the 20s or early 30s in Britain and perhaps in continental Europe. An arcane subject, but you’d know better than me. Best, Mark
Mark,
Need to investigate this side. Seems that sound cinema reached the UK circa 1928 so that would nt have been 12a and 13a.