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Originally Posted by Dottore
...retro look of the Tivoli is deliberate. I read the designer wanted the look to hark back to the days of quality hi-fi equipment...
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Back in grad school I bought this KLH Model 27 stereo AM/FM tuner/amp and KLH Model 5 acoustic suspension speakers. KLH, I believe, invented the acoustic suspension system:
KLH Twenty-Seven Stereo Receiver
From the link:
"FM-AM receiver, all transistor; AM/FM vernier dial tuner. Designed by Henry Kloss in the mid 1960s.
Power output was rated at 30 watts RMS per channel.
A 1970 ad from Audio Lab in Cambridge has this unit on sale at $252,
Kist price was $325."
The measly 30w/channel drove the highly efficient Model 5 speakers, producing BIG sound from a unit less than half the size and weight of it's bells and whistles laden competitors.
I still have the speakers in my LR, original cones/acoustic suspension rings.
Edit: re the speakers, "The acoustic suspension woofer is a type of loudspeaker that reduces bass distortion caused by non-linear, stiff mechanical suspensions in conventional loudspeakers. It was invented in 1954 by Edgar Villchur, and brought to commercial production by Villchur and Henry Kloss with the founding of Acoustic Research in Cambridge Mass."