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Tandberg of Norway

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Tandberg of Norway Mysterious stuffs, folks... I owned Tandbergs gears for most of my life: TL 5020, Studio Monitor, Tandberg 114/116-8 coaxial speakers... and TD20A, 3500 and 9200 XD reel to reels. I recently bought for cheap a pair of Hi-Fi System 11 speakers... a truly unassuming, humble shoes-box sized speaker which I connected to my trusty Partridge 300B mono blocks, just out of curiosity. The sound I enjoyed so much most of the day is so right... hard to believe: or my 300B amps are so incredibly good to make virtually everything to sound heavenly or... these speakers are amazing... ... not sure which of the above. Hi-Fi is such a funny hobby: a cheap, unknown speaker is able to give more music of many hideously expensive piece of gear Im aware of! Funny... so funny Im almost worried;-) download  file  now

Tandberg of Norway

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Tandberg of Norway My looong love-affaire with Tandberg began several decades ago, when I swapped ESS (dr. Heil tweeter) speakers for a Tandberg TL 5020 three ways speakers. The Norway-made enclosures where so vastly superior in sound quality, I was using a HK Citation 12 and 11 combo, at the time, and also the finish was truly hitting my strings. After some years, I sold them to a friend and bought, always pre-owned, a Studio Monitor model... incredibly nice and dynamic... I used them for several years and sold them - now regretfully - when I got a Quad ESL bronze grille electrostatics... Then, after some years, Stax F 81 and Futtermann H3AAA and Convergent Audio Technology SL-1 followed, but thats another story;-) I recently got a nice pair of coaxial, Alnico speakers - i.e. - Tandberg 114-116-8 which was really gorgeous in appearance and sound... I sold them to a friend because I was in love for my Cabasse Dinghy 221... but when I purchased for cheap one pair of T...