they got a less than positive review in a hifi mag recentlyMy take was bloody awful, think I just about managed 45 seconds before I moved on.
they got a less than positive review in a hifi mag recentlyMy take was bloody awful, think I just about managed 45 seconds before I moved on.
hifinews nov 2022 "Lowther Almiras proving bright enough even to assault my aged ears "Which mag did the review?
Glowing review on HiFiPig:hifinews nov 2022 "Lowther Almiras proving bright enough even to assault my aged ears "
Indeed!mmm maybe a marmite speaker then !
Possibly Marmite blended with Bovril and Vegemite...Very indeed.
I have the horn every day...Every serious audiophile needs to have some horns in their life!
Just picked them up from Gary.It's been a long time since I had the horn. ( Old age )
About 20 years ago I really enjoyed a pair of Beauhorn speakers in a large room using Lowther PM6a drivers. A job move to Reading and living in smaller rooms / houses forced a move away from Lowther horns to more BBC designs.
After a move back to the Southwest and a bigger room I totally forgot / wasn't concerned about having horn speakers because the Spendor Classic 2/3 are sounding fantastic with a Radford / Woodside STA25 ( 6550 valves ).
I'm usually hanging around the classified section looking for something to temp away my hard earned money. About a week ago I spotted these...... Pickup has been arranged for Friday........ Horntastic.
Now that's what I call a horn system.... fantastic.Here's a photo of my Lowther Acousta 116 plywood cabs with original P6M (PM6a) drivers, they are coming up for around 60yrs old, I'm sure they've had a bit of time to bed in so maybe have lost some of the shout I've heard mentioned, to my ears I get no shout here.
I've since installed some tweeters after this photo was taken (Fostex FT17H) with a single 2.2uF cap on them at the moment, I will try a 1.5uF at some point as I've read that's closer to the roll off of the main driver.
I find all the wide band drivers/speakers I've used in the past just a bit too dark/recessed in the top end so I always augment with a tweeter soon after.
Not as essential as the tweeters in my opinion is my BK Monolith + subwoofer, sometimes recordings need just a bit more help in the lower regions, Yello for example.
I see Lowther has recently released the Acoutsta again fully built with 117 designation and also as a flat pack kit, so an enduring design indeed.
Overall I think they're a great speaker, but audition as always is recommended.
talking of horning a nice 12 month old pair of zeus has just appeared !I had a pair of Horning Agathons for 8 years as my main speakers, about 20 years ago. They had Lowther drivers but also supplemented by a tweeter - and as I have only found out recently- an enclosed bass driver in the cabinet.
Ultimately they weren’t even handed enough over a broad range of music (It was probably the D&B I was getting into at the time!) but boy did they do acoustic and vocals well.
Like Rabski, was irrationally tempted when they came up in the classifieds. Should prove a cracking buy I reckon, as long as you are not into breakbeats