Electro-Voice Speakers ???

[Soccerkid830]

Hey guys,

Any of you guys know anything about these?



I looked around a bit and believe they are Electro-Voice Regency speakers. Anybody have any experience with these at all?
Just curious about them, not really looking into buying them too much.

From what I read, they seem to be pretty decent and it looks like a pair of them sold on Audiogon for a lot more, or at least the person selling them was asking a lot more.

 

[KEW]

They were designed in the mid 50's by Paul Klipsch for EV.
They were pretty good (and were efficient as you may expect) for the day, but I don't believe they are really competition for modern stuff.
In 1976 and 1977, went I went on many, many speaker listening binges, my experience regarding tweeters was you had the soft domes which were a bit muted. Then you had the metal domes and horns, some of which had a wonderful air (not available from soft domes of the day), but all of these were a bit shrill/harsh resulting in listening fatigue to my ear. Some (if not all) of the Regency's had a brilliance knob which would help with the fatigue issues (at the loss of the "air").
That is my take, but I had friends who didn't have issues with them!
Happily, the better modern soft domes have the air, and the better modern metal and horn tweets are not fatiguing.

 

[Ricardojoa]

Dont know these but I have friend who is building a pair of huge speaker with 30"bass, 15"for mid bass and some horn tweeter all from EV vintage. i cant wait to experience. EV are suppose to be regarded as good speaker back in the days.

 

[Soccerkid830]

They were designed in the mid 50's by Paul Klipsch for EV.
They were pretty good (and were efficient as you may expect) for the day, but I don't believe they are really competition for modern stuff.
In 1976 and 1977, went I went on many, many speaker listening binges, my experience regarding tweeters was you had the soft domes which were a bit muted. Then you had the metal domes and horns, some of which had a wonderful air (not available from soft domes of the day), but all of these were a bit shrill/harsh resulting in listening fatigue to my ear. Some (if not all) of the Regency's had a brilliance knob which would help with the fatigue issues (at the loss of the "air").
That is my take, but I had friends who didn't have issues with them!
Happily, the better modern soft domes have the air, and the better modern metal and horn tweets are not fatiguing.

Thanks for the info! It looks like the guy either sold them or decided to keep them because his ad because it says deleted by author.

I'll stick to my more modern toys for now