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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

Foundation Designer premium speaker stand and Tandberg System 11

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Foundation Designer premium speaker stand and Tandberg System 11 Same old story: I wasnt prepared! My recent exposure to the Tandberg System 11 mini-monitors made me a believer... Im so in love for these unassuming seldom heard speakers I felt comfortable investing something for an UK-made original - not MkII made in Canada replicas - Foundation Designer speakers stand pair. I found these vintage nicely handmade beauties in the hands of a gentleman in his seventies who was down-sizing his great gears collection: he boughtem brand new about 25 years ago and they costed literally an arm and a leg back then! The logic part of my mind was saying "Wrong! Dont buy them!"... they cost several times more than you spent for the Tandbergs... so, no good! My adventurous side just was shouting: "Yeah, tryem! You cannot go wrong with these!" ... yes, no... yes...YES! I today drove about 100 km back and forth to pick up the stands... the previous owner kept them in mint conditio...

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...