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wharfedale e70 speakers
Great condition for age!
PLEASE NOT COLLECTION ONLY OR YOU CAN ARRANGE COURIER/PACKING ..THANKS
Please check pictures for condition, cabinets do have a few marks relivate with age , but this doesn’t effect the excellent sound they produce.
There were never that manygreat1970’sloudspeakers. Possibly because the wisdom of the time was that big, muscular transistor power amps were the way ahead, speakers became increasingly complex and power-hungry. Multi-driver designs using heavy polypropylene and Bextrene cones meant slow transients, phase problems and hopelessly complicated crossovers that degraded the sound British companies were perhaps the worst offenders, turning out speakers with such heavy, reactive loads and low sensitivity that only a brace of Naim NAP250s could get a squeak from them. Everything from Linns Isobarik to the BBC LS3/5a ate power amps for dinner hardly a synergistic approach! So when Wharfedale launched their E series in 1977, many audiophiles thought theyd flipped their lid. The flagship E70 (81cm high, the E standing for efficiency and 70 being its internal cabinet volume in litres) had an outrageously high 94dB sensitivity and a benign typical impedance of 10ohms, meaning even a portable radio could drive it. This was all too much for the sniffy BBC brigade, which pointed to its lumpy frequency response (60Hz-16kHz +- 4.5dB), bass reflex design and paper-coned drivers (shock, horror), as a sign of poor breeding. To make matters worse, the Es had Wharfedales corporate garish driver trim rings and cor-blimey Ford Capri fishnet grilles, laying them open to accusations of being cheap and flashy. In short, they were a bit of a joke amongst the great and good of loudspeakers, making it hard to take their admirable design philosophy seriously. A pity, because underneath the brash exterior lurked an interesting speaker which was nothing like its British contemporaries. Indeed if anything it owed more to JBL and Klipsch, two other brands that little-Englander audiophiles secretly sniggered at. In action, the E70 wasdisarminglyfast and loud with real confidence and boldness. On classical and jazz it wasnt much cop, but give it rock, soul or (best of all) disco, and it was boogie wonderland! It caught the energy and speed of the music in a way that BBC-style speakers could never do. Drums had great attack and weight, basslines were fast and bouncy, while vocals projected boldly out into the room and cymbals hit you between the eyes. Chics Le Freak would never sound the same again! The downside was the bass, of which there wasnt much. All that cabinet volume and the big 250mm woofer were for efficiency rather than accuracy, so things were distinctly light and lumpy downstairs. Nor were the twin 100mm midrange units the sweetest around, meaning that along with the horn-loaded soft dome tweeter, things could get a little tiring. But worst of all was the E70s stereo imaging, which thanks to its higgledy-piggledy driver arrangement and wide front baffle was as far from a point source as you could get. Still, all this pales into insignificance when you consider the E70s special talent, which is working with valve amps. Give it a good tube power source and its almost magic its amp-friendly load and the inherent smoothness of valves makes for a marriage made in hi-fi heaven. In the wrong system with a forward solid-state amplifier though, youll be putting your pair on eBay as a matter of priority; that hard upper midband will remain etched on your cranium forever more!
I can deliver locally to mold north wales ..or I can meet you somewhere . Or you are welcome to arrange your own packaging & Courier
I would prefer pick up due to size & weight
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