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…
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Another western electric 13a, waiting for a bus?
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….
Western Electric 12a replica and iPhone….
Listen…. Okay it’s not a we555 but from an iPhone I’ll say not bad! All fun…
Western Electric 12a and 13a « combo »
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…
Berlin Berliner
Having good audio friends in Berlin and knowing their audio community is very active I had to post about Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929)…. This German-born American actually invented the flat disc “gramophone record”…we owe him so much! Now the Berlin will call themselves Berliners? All Fun…
Hand tools are all that’s needed
Western electric 12a brackets all hand made as usual. All fun…
Visit to machining shop
Castings come out “rough” and need machine work….Not much but it makes all the difference. Drilling, threading, surfacing….all so that they fit neatly in place matching the wooden junctions. A few images of my friends place, glad to say has not caved into all CNC….keep it real in a world of 3D printing….! All fun……
Western electric 12a and 13a
A few posts ago I showed a 12a hanging and this is a follow up. Only one channel now but the second will be setup soon. I’ll be spending a fair time setting the system up, tuning to get the sound needed. This is truly unknown territory indeed ! We could go for the all…
Design 1st half of 20th century?
I’d really like to know what was going on during the 1st half of the 20th century…. Okay I think that the Western electric horns are not only fantastic at what they are designed to do delivering a level of audio efficiency unheard of but also the organic shapes are just pieces of art….btw that…
Western Electric 13a feet that count…..
The we13a needs good feet to support the mouth. These are like originals supporting the horn at the exterior sides of the mouth. It’s strange that when you support the 13a in the middle of the mouth it affects the sound. Actually when you listen to a pair in stereo one being correctly supported and…
