Small Wonders: Meet Realistic's Minimus 7 Microspeaker and its Secret Amstrad Cousin!
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- Опубликовано: 13 ноя 2023
- In this episode Mike and David warp back to 1978, and go to their local Tandy shop to experience a microscopical marvel! Realistic's Minimus 7 sold in large quantities for decades, yet was almost completely ignored by the hi-fi press. The guys reckon it is surprisingly good at the job it was designed for.
David also digs out his coveted pair of Amstrad LS-101, the kissing cousin of the Realistic speaker - likely made by the same Japanese OEM manufacturer. Mike and David think this is the best Amstrad hi-fi product ever sold, although that's not exactly saying much!
Each episode of Hi-Fi Riff features the guys' unedited, unexpurgated views about all manner of weird and wonderful hi-fi designs. Business executive Mike has a wealth of knowledge from previous hi-fi retail experience, and David has written about hi-fi for thirty years. Now Editor-in-Chief of StereoNET, he's picked up a few things along the way.
So relax and enjoy some one-take hi-fi riffing - and please leave your comments below. And don’t forget to hit the Subscribe button, this one goes up to eleven!
The eighties-tastic title tune is called ‘UFO/Mike’s Jumper’, and used with the express permission of our old pal and rights holder Simon Lythe.
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I had them in 78 and have them still. Remarkable speakers, way ahead of their time.
Got a pair of these from 1979 on either side or my monitor. Still good after 44 years and no plans to replace them any time soon.
Those are what I'm hearing this video on right now. One of the best items to come out of Radio Shack. Very versatile speakers for their size. I have a few pairs I've bought over the years.
I used to see those speakers all the time back in the 90's. To say they had a bit of staying power is an understatement.
BTW, those 4 screws on the back of the Minimus 7 do not allow access to the inside. If you remove them there’s nothing but screw holes. The cabinet is literally one piece. If you want internal access, you must remove the grill and the drivers. The screws were from an optional wall mount bracket for the speakers. The original owner musta left them in so he wouldn’t lose them…
I went into a local radio shack back in the mid 80's where they were using these for the shop tunes.
I looked around to see what speakers were being played because it sounded so good. I was amazed to find out that they were using 2 of these.
I did buy a pair.
Now I see them in thrift stores and get them when I do.
Im using 2 on the B bank of a 1973 sansui 771 I also found at a thrift store for 15 bucks.
Ive got some old advent mini shelf speakers on the A bank.
They work together very well.
It really sounds nice.
Excellent comments :-)
Bought a pair at a Goodwill for $19.99, they're a great sounding speakers! Also the Optimus 1's are also good speakers too! Not all realistic stereo equipment was junk! They made good some really good equipment!
Them lil' Jokers hit Hard AF! When you see them at the Thrift Store........Better grab em' because 99% of the time they are working and to find them in a pair is a Blessing. These are some of the Best affordable speakers ever made in my opinion.
@@forsale313 I think once you buy a pair you become part of some secret cult, haha. I've been fully converted and have acquired a second pair over the summer.
Im an ex Tandy salesperson and I too have a pair ...of the earlier screw terminal type with the aluminium fronts and metal faced tweeters. They are still in their original Yellow boxes. I've also got a pair of the later 40-2030 C ( push clip terminals and plastic faced tweeter) which I've modded.. I'm leaving the original versions alone. Great to see a Riff on these beauties.Thanks.
Wow - we are not worthy!
@@MrVinylista Haha! I've put up a wee video of them on my channel up against the later version like yours. The crossover mod makes them less 'shouty ' and well worth doing.
I'm really enjoying your channel, thanks.
Best regards, John.
I had a pair of these connected to a little STA-19 receiver for many years. It was a great little system.
Fun review! My pair is from 1980 and blessedly it has a fabric dome tweeter for smoother highs. Unfortunately, one of the woofers literally froze after about 20 years and eBay, in its infancy, was no help. Parts Express was, with a closeout on 4” Vifa drivers once used in a high end Infinity center channel that fit with little modification. They had far greater power handling and much greater xMax excursion than the original drivers as well as being 3 dB more efficient. A swap of the original NP electrolytic cap on the tweeter to a film cap brought the tweeter up to match. They served for fifteen years in my noisy music classroom easily filling it with a 40 WPC Harmon Kardon PM640 integrated amplifier. They took bass boost well, too. It took a pair of Harbeth P3ESR speakers to displace them from my current desktop 😉.
If you guys were talking about bottle caps I'd be watching, you're simply awesome...another dedicated fan from the USA.
Here's one of your viewers from the USA. Love the vibe of your channel. Always look forward to your next vid. Keep up the great work and good humor.
Thanks and best wishes from 'across The Pond'!
At £99/pair back in 1978 they were expensive. In 1984 "Comet" listed pair of BBC LS3/5s at £194. The LS3/5s have held their value rather better.
I ended up buying two pairs of the wooden minimus 7s after your Anni video. Great desktop speakers!
Still gave two pair. Listen to them everyday. One pair in the garage and a pair in my workshop. Still sound great!
As I'm watching this video I'm listening to the sound on a pair of Minimus 7 Speakers! They have been used for the past 20+ years with my desktop computer. Prior they were mounted in the rear of my Datsun 240Z. My recollection at the time I paid $5 (used) for the pair back in the 90's. Also of note is the Recoton F.R.E.D. III MTS stand alone Stereo Decoder (with Schotz Technology) I use to power the Minimus 7 speakers. I paid $1 for the amp. This $6 investment is far superior anything that was offered as a desktop speaker when I started using them 20 years ago.
I also have a pair of Minimus 3.5 speaker that sadly have a plastic case and one each of the Minimus 77 (similar to the Minimus 7) and the larger brother of them the Minimus 11, both aluminum cased and each costing a mere 90 cents.
Minimus 7 and a 240z... I have died and gone to car heaven!
Mike
I sold these when new in Australia working for Tandy Electronics and they were rubbish.@@Hi-FiRiff
David! Why not do a Minimus 7 upgrade video- step-by-step!?
I have actually asked a speaker designer friend of mine to do a special mod package. Watch this space...
@@MrVinylista I'm interested
A few years ago, I saw a pair at a thrift store and was impressed by their weight and sturdy construction. The cost was $8.00, but I didn't buy them because I didn't need them. I never imagined that someone would later make a video and say good things about them.
Brilliant
Still love my slightly larger Optimus pro 77's. Fun video!
I had a pair of Minimus 7s back in the day. They were the surround speakers on a Dolby Pro Logic system, but got pressed into service as main speakers once. I had them on Target stands in my parents living room, and accidentally found just the right place to put them.- great speakers for what they were.
In 1978 I worked for Radio Shack and remember the Minimus 7's quite well. Owned a couple of pair myself at the time. Wish I had kept them. They were cool.
Wow, these were my first speakers when I moved on my own. Great little speakers.
I bought a pair back in 1988 here in New Jersey. For a 21-year-old I had pretty good taste back then. Mind you, at the time, I also owned a pair of CANTON CT-1000's in a walnut finish. No comparison really, but the MINIMUS 7's were polite, tight, and had great PRAT at the cost of anything resembling bass. They are still with me after all these years, in mint condition and I even still have the original boxes. Now I'm curious as to how they sound, although I am spoiled with a pair of ProAc Response 1SC's in my system.
Radio Shack, actually made very good drivers back in the day…they had a Super Tweeter that was fantastic, originally housed in an all metal enclosure, and later in plastic. Their midrange drivers had oversized magnets and as a teenager we’d create open baffle arrays that set the standard for what I listen for in speakers ever since. These Realistic speakers are true Bookshelf speakers, not stand mounts….RadioShack sold a very fine subwoofer with internal crossovers mated for these “satellite speakers”, and for the money…at that time, was a hard to beat combination. As others have said, they came in wood, but back then they weren’t as popular. These Realistic speakers were modeled after the German Made Canton Plus S. Pretty much identical in size and weight, I had purchased a black pair and remember these (Realistic) coming out a year or so later and was shocked at how good they sounded. The Canton’s also had accompanying Subwoofer which was recommended for a full range experience. You asked what makes them sound so good….it’s that they were manufactured in Japan!! Unlike low end gear made in China these days, a whole lot of audio equipment was made in Japan and made well back then. I have a pair of white Canton Plus S, with a 8 inch Martin Logan Sub, in my bedroom, and the combo delivers a very satisfying sound on both Music and Movies! Great discussion!!
Greetings from Michigan. Another one to look up is the Minimus 77 speaker. A “big brother of sorts” to the 7. Those have a 5.25 inch woofer. And very nice sound. I just refoamed those woofers and put them in my garage system.
When I did commercial sound for bars and restaurants I would use these with a bass cut at 90 Hz , a few subs of course. This was the 1980’s. Cheers from Montreal, Can.
A wooden cabinet version was also made from about 1982/83, the Minimus 7W. I got a pair a few years ago from a flea market for £18. They're slightly bigger than the aluminium originals but the cabinets are still very "dead" and very rigid because of the small panel area. Mine are perfect except for the grille cloths which are a bit frayed in places but it's nothing that stops me from using them.
I use mine in my home studio setup where they make great nearfield monitors. They've taken a fair bit of hammering too with no apparent ill effects. The detail from these speakers often comes as something of a shock!
When I first got into audio I’d visit Radio Shack to listen to Realistic and their other components.
One of the few durable speakers that nobody can push the center cap of the speakers in with their finger.
I worked for my buddy who was a manager in the early 90s at at Radio Shack and I bought and scrounged up as many of those as I could and so did my buddies. I have one as the center channel on my AVR and I probably have at least 3 pairs around still. They just sound really clean and great high end with the soft dome tweeter they used. I have used and heard the bigger minumus 11 and the tweeter and everything else just didn't have the sound quality and overall balance the 7 did. It was just the perfect sounding package by accident or design. Get a nice sub and you have a really nice sounding package that has great bang per buck. I built my main speakers with Gefco 8" rubber surround long throw woofers, Realistic 1.5 soft dome midrange, and Phillips dome tweeters after hearing the woofers and tweets in his home built speakers and they sound really good but that was before Radio Shack was selling the minumus 7. They still work great as well and there used to be a lot more local shops that would sell you raw drivers, boxes, and cross overs so you could build your own speakers. Radio Shack actually had raw speakers you could buy too. Their best ones were the. Mylar dome tweeters, the gold mylar dome super tweeters, and the 1.5 soft dome midrange drivers.
Pioneer used to make some of the receivers they sold, and tape decks, and Sharp made some of the small TVs. If you knew who made things for them you could get some amazing bargains when they had their sales and employees got a discount or first dibs on discontinued or defective or damaged stuff too.
I used to sell a lot of these when I worked for Radio Shack in the late 80s, these and their smaller cousin were great speakers for the price
Just discovered your channel by searching for Minimus 7's ... Glad I found you. Nice work.
I have a pair of these in my left right middle surround positions, they work great and seem to be able to handle whatever power I feed them.
had them in the late 80's. loved them.
Leave those connectors as is. I've had no problems with mine. Then again, I don't use Monster Cable or things of that nature. They do need a subwoofer of some sort.
I have a pair which is a part of my 3 sets of speakers. They are great on the high end and they really do bring out the high end side and mids. They do suffer on the low side since the driver is too small to be low end effective. That said, as 1/3 of my total speakers, this really supports to my total sound balance in my system. My floor standing is a 3 way with 12in driver and my mids are two ways and then my Realistics. All 8 ohms at 100 w max. In closing they help to round out my sound.
My music ear is very eclectic, heavy on prog and jazz fusion and classical. What I like about the minimus is that it brings out mids and highs and you can hear the taps on the highhat or the twang off the snare rim. They really help to round out my total sound. After 30 plus years, they still sound great.
Sold a huge amount in the 80s. Still have 8 minimus7s outdoors as the surround speakers and 2 minimus 11s as L/R front with a Denon 4800 rcvr for my patio movie system. Crossing over at 100hz allows alarmingly high output levels due to using Snap AVs inground12” subwoofer and amp for the lows. One woofer failure in 16 years……not a bad track record.
A friend gave me a pair of these years ago with the surrounds rotted out. I still have them and was planning to fix them. Pretty cool little speakers. I am in America.
Aww guys - a trip down memory lane.. Realistic and Chris Frankland in the same Riff! I think you're being a bit tough on Tandy though for spoiling my memories from my formative years as a hifi enthusiast. Back in '87 as a kid I'd make any excuse to pop into Tandy and dream of one day having my first 'proper' separates system, based around Tandy's Realistic or Memorex brands. Luckily at the same time I started reading hifi magazines, so thanks to the likes of Chris Frankland etc. I bought a Systemdek IIx, NAD 3130 and a pair of Gale GS210 speakers on Target stands instead. I'm sure I would have been delighted with the Realistic/Memorex system though. I remember these Realistic Minimus 7 speakers from their catalogue I drooled over with my school calculator back then.
What I also loved about Tandy was you could buy speaker drive units and crossovers to have a crack at DIY projects. To this day I wonder what that pair of floorstanding isobarick behemoths built with solid 1" thick mahogany cabinets (free offcuts from my dad's double glazing business) and Radio Shack 12" three-way speakers would have sounded like that I spent ages designing after doing my school homework. Bloody awful probably! Would've been fun though!
Riff a total hoot chaps, cheers.
Yep, I remember the Minimus 7's at Radio Shack back in the late '70s. Unfortunately, I saw them after auditioning the Visonic "Little David's" (actually the "David 50"). The Minimus was a pale, inferior. copy of the far superior sounding Visonics. The greatest difference was the bass response. The David 50 had a full low end. Comparable to a speaker with an 8" - 10" woofer. Comparable in the mid '70s. What speaker builders are doing with 5" - 8" woofer today is incredible.
When I auditioned the David's, the salesman didn't identify the active speakers in the showroom, just had me stand about 15 - 20 feet from a wall full of speakers and started playing some music. He asked me to point to the active speakers. I guessed wrong.
If you give the Minimus a rating between 7 & 9, then you will have to rate the Davids somewhere between 14 & 20 on a scale of 1-10. (A rating of 3 - 5 is closer to the truth.)
I did eventually end up buying a pair of Minimus 7's. I mounted them in my girlfriend's car on the rear deck of her '65 Dodge Dart.
I was only a few days ago remembering these amazing little
buggers from back around '89ish surprising sound for
what you see
If I'm not delusional, Tandy also sold a similar speaker to these but with a folded ribbon tweeter.
Just found a mint pair for 45 euros in France
I bought a new pair of the larger 77's on ebay. I was the first person to unbox them in 40 years! Same metal design as the 7's, but more bass.
I read through all the comments below, and no one mentioned the a/d/s 200C which was arguably the best of all the 4" minispeakers at the time, but about 3 times the cost of the Minimus 7's. Several people mentioned the Visonic David speakers, which sounded a bit more refined than the Radio Shack's (I had a set for a while) but weren't quite as rugged and were somewhat more expensive. The a/d/s were 4 ohms, as were the Davids IIRC (both were marketed for car stereo use), but the Rat Shack speakers were 8 ohms and inefficient, so not great for car use. A couple people mentioned Canton speakers below, they had some similar mini-speakers; and a friend of mine had a pair of little Grundig speakers that sounded great (he called them Grun-dogs). I had a little pair of Braun mini speakers in faux-wood plastic cabs that were okay but definitely bass deficient unless you used them with a subwoofer. Note that all the speaker brands mentioned above, with the exception of the Minimus7's, were of German origin.
The usual going price for Minimus 7's new was $100 a pair but a couple times a year they would put them on sale for $70 or perhaps even $60 a pair which was an absolute bargain. The woofers had rubber surrounds and so there was no foam to write out. if you took care of them and didnt overdrive them or put heavy bass through them, they would last for decades.
A couple other slightly larger mini speakers worth mentioning, which were marketed for car stereo use in the early 1980s, were from Fujitsu Tenvox in a wedgeshaped chrome or akuminum housing, and the B&W LM1's which were also in a wedgeshaped metal enclosure finished in velvety gray Nextel, with a Kevlar woofer. The LM1's could handle something like 100 W but were very inefficient, and there weren't many car amplifiers available back then that could really drive them hard in an automobile; but if you overdrove them the built-in APOC circuit would shut them off and prevent damage.
In the late 70s we would mount these in our cars. Had them on the back deck of a 70 Chevelle.
The grills on yours are removable by design. You pry them off carefully from the corner area.
There are 4 versions of the Minimus-7 over production. You can get the metal in silver as well and the first 2 variants were real wood walnut with removable fabric grills. The walnut are the most desirable of all by collectors.
A sealed box is not an infinite baffle design, it's "acoustic suspension". Infinite baffle would entail mounting the speakers on a gigantic piece of plywood with both the fronts and the rears of the drivers open to the environment and the air, but the piece of plywood is so big that sound from the front of the speaker cannot mix with sound coming off the rear of the speaker. A truly infinite baffle is of course impossible, but if the baffle is large enough and the volume output limited, then to the speaker the baffle might as well be "infinite"....
I WISH I could find a pair of those!
Realistic made some great equipment. Don't be so surprised.
They were also sold with a Realistic subwoofer!
Hi Mike and Dave. I'm one of those two Americans who love watching you two crack-on about hi-fi. Lots of fun. Thanks
You've made me surprisingly nostalgic for Radio Shack. Thanks from 🇺🇲
Me too. It wasn't all junk, they did sell some interesting stuff, I have to admit!
The ADS L-300's were the very best of these small speakers in metal cabinets.
Looking on Ebay already!
Mike
There are those who claim the Minimus 7 was an attempt to copy some of the ADS DNA...albeit at a lower price point, with other drivers and a cheap crossover.
Hitachi offered versions of these too
There is also from Germany the Monarch LSP50 (wood).Also made in Alu.
Paid 80 euro new in 2012. Served its purpose in small space.
Very bright and revealing (mids). Some minute quality bass.
Fine for nearfield (desk). Are considered hifi by collectors.
I am in America and I never heard of Monarch speakers, but I've owned a/d/s 200 C mini speakers, and Visonic "David" minispeakers, and I've seen similar models from Canton, Grundig and Braun. A friend of mine had Grundigs which sounded really good, in par with my a/d/s. All of these are of German origin of course..
@@goodun2974 Monarch was overtaken by Monacor. The speakers I have
(that you can google) are allmost identical to the minimus 7. They were
common in Germany. I bought them on Terceira Azores. I am dutch but
live now in Portugal.
Some modern equivalent in solid aluminium; Linn Komponent 104 and Arcam Muso. The Muso (later one with the curved top) is the pick of the two and was hugely underrated. I got some for £60 new.
Missing the Rush Bass and Vocals with your Quads.... 😆I have a pair of Minimus 7 and Minimus 7W (wood cabinet) speakers from the early 80's. They still work great and I use them when I need a quick set of speakers to hook up for amplifier testing. The 7W pair did some time on stands in my home theater system as rear channel drivers for a while too.
Classics! I have a few pairs, various versions. One pair tethered to a Henry Kloss PC 5" subwoofer, that also has a built in amp, powers these for my TV in the sitting room. With the small sub they're much better than most soundbars and really don't take up much space.
For a while I also used a pair as computer speakers with a Lepai A2020+ T-amp, lol. Talk about a cheap PC system. They're excellent as near field monitors.
It was a copy of the ADS 200 which I still have as desk top speaker.
Picked up a pair at an estate sale for $20. Nice little speaker! Going to pair them up with a sub and see how that goes. Enjoying your riffs!!
I'm sure the inspiration for these little metal cased marvels were the German Visonik David - (Tiny David being able to do battle with Big Goliath).
A record producer friend used to use them as his portable reference monitors as they were easily transportable between studios.
I'm sure that David P will remember them now I've jogged his memory - coincidentally also David's namesake.
A great comment, and you win 10 out of 10 on the Geekometer!
I do indeed remember the David, as they were well marketed in the UK in the mid/late 1970s and funnily enough big in Japan.
I seem to remember them being the first German speakers to receive an award in the 'Japanese Audio Grand Prix'.
And you're right, they just preceded the Minimus 7 - I think they came out in 1976. Rumour has it that they were actually made by HECO.
I've had several pairs over the years, and still might have a couple in the attic!
@@MrVinylista , I'm pretty sure the a/d/s 200C minispeakers preceeded the Visonic Davids. In the distant past Ive owned the David's, the Minimus 7's, and the 200C's, and the 200C's were definitely the best, but they cost $329 a pair IIRC, while the Minimus were $100 ($60 to $70 on sale), and the Davids were priced somewhere inbetween. A friend of mine had a pair of Grundig (Grun-dogs, he called em) that were similar to the a/d/s, very nice sounding speakers.
I have a set of Braun output c/8 speakers that were the stereo shop competitors to the Rad Shack speakers. They are really very similar, but they are made in Germany rather than Japan.
The LX5 and mach one's were Great
i have had mine boughnt new in the 80s and they are still good. i actually put them on stands and ran them with a sub in place of another monitor and realized that I could live with them had I not had access to much the better Spendor S3/5s, which I use currently with my Rythmik 12" servo sub. i am in agreement with you about the spring clip connectors and I may use convert them to banana jacks. also, putting in a more premium cap in the cover is a great suggestion.
the were frequently sold with a companion receiver that had a nicely chosen bump in the bottom that mad them sound very pleasant.
most other Realistic speakers were crap, being very uneven in response in order to make them sound loud.
GREAT riff!
Excellent comments! Mike
Have a small Sony am/fm/cd unit and replaced the speakers with Minimus 7. Big improvement. I also have a similarly sized and sounding Fostex, wonder if they have the same OEM. Some 90s Radio Shack electronics were made/rebadged Pioneer. So don’t underestimate RS making dinky stuff.
A revalation! Great un🤣ortodox review! LOL 👍
Thank you. That's a polite way of putting it!
I must say that you two are one of the most original and fun reviewers to watch but also with great deal of knowledge and experience from hi-fi world. Just keep on it! @@MrVinylista
Stock they are OK, with the Zilch crossover they are Fing fantastic! I have a stick pair I bought in 93 and Zilched they are perfect for little monitors and my portable theater setup.
If I remember it right there was another tiny speaker around this time called DAVID VISONIC.......or something like that.
Visonic was the brand, David was the speaker model. Good speakers, perhaps a bit cleaner sounding than the Radio Shack Minimus 7's, but more expensive, and easier to blow if you cranked them. The true king of the similar sized mini speakers was the a/d/s 200 C, but they cost around $300.
I have a pair of this being sold on eBay. I just increased the price after watching your video. 😁
Perfect!
I still have my Minimus 7 speakers I got mine for my Sony Profile TV Monitor that came with no speakers they worked great but I suspect that they will need stripping down and clean and replace the internals
XJS, a sports car designed by committee. Much like a camel is a horse designed by committee.
I love Mike’s devious price scheming…did you get a pair Mike?
I got two pairs in the end! :-)
You also have a viewer from Venezuela and who lives in Hong Kong , so my best regards , and thank you for your light but insightful videos
Thank you and welcome. And give my love to Repulse Bay - spent several happy months there back in the late 1980s!
Minimus 7 has been in storage since 1992. Paired it with a Fosi Audio V3 for a desktop setup and was shocked how good they sounded. Got a small desk so these micro-monitors fit well. Can’t believe they are still being talked about after all these years coming from Radio Shack.
Are there any current speakers about this same size that is worth looking at?
Yes, agree completely, they are can sound sublime and they definitely have a following!
Great question ab similar modern speakers... I can't think of any that tiny, although the PMC prodigious one are too narrow for my Kan stands!
Mike
I’ve got a pair of these in white. They’re in mint condition except for one issue- unfortunately the foam surrounds have disintegrated. I’d make that simple repair, but I don’t have a use for them. If someone in the US (I’m in Seattle) is interested in owning a pair, let me know!
Have you got the Minimus 77 s' ?...they suffer from foam rot. The Minimus 7 have a rolled rubber surround.
@@JD-lk7im good question. I’ll have to check. Do they differ in other ways?
@@BeefyMonthe Minimus 77 speakers bass driver and cabinet are larger than the Minimus 7. Higher power handling at 55w..They were introduced around 1990.
USA here
i have some 350w pyramids like this just a little bigger and they bang
I have those speakers stored in the closet we're can I find the woofers the original are damaged
Do you have a set of the rotating wall-mount brackets??
They are probably worth more than the speakers are now.
I do.
You can have them when you pry them from my cold dead hands.
Ha! Ha!
Are
Realistic's Minimus 7
AND
meridian josephine V
the same speakers ???
I found one pair of meridian josephine V And even google image search is saying they are this Realistic min 7
plzz help 🙏
I had a pair of those back in the 70s, they were amazing speakers,even by today's standards.
Fun video as per😄 Hey guys I want to buy a nice integrated amplifier for my daughter in London. She and her fiancé both love to play records but have a very cheap amp. It’s an house warming prez but I do have a budget so was thinking about a used Rega Brio. Id like to get her a Naim Supernate but its a bit out of my grasp at present so Im thinking Brio then Naim later on. Any thoughts? Ps the speakers are KEF Celestes and the table is a Thorens 160 from the 1960’s.
Yes, the Brio would be perfect - it's a great little amp. Fit a decent modern moving magnet cartridge like an Audio-Technica AT-VM95E to the Thorens and you're in business.
Hey thanks brother much appreciated@@MrVinylista
The Rega IO is also a good choice but not as much power
I use the bigger brother minimus 11s at work. Great low volume center imaging. Even at uneven placement
They sorta look like a JBL Control 1 clone.
The JBL Control 1 and the Control X are great small speakers! I have the Minimus 7's but the JBLs are much better. They do cost more though.
@@MashBill What is the next step up in the JBL line? You know, the sound and quality of the Control 1 but bigger and better?
@@cremersalex Check out the Control 25.
My foams rotted. Cant find new drivers.. sad face
I used own these-- they were TERRIBLE. Small anemic sound. If I had them today maybe they would work as computer speakers with a sub.
Not very realistic mmm no not really that's two things 🤔
Deleting comments is not cool. Unsubscribed.
I'm not sure we would even know how to. 😬
Ignored because they were terrible. Thin sounding and screeching treble. Okay for my old 1970s car, but I would not use them anywhere else. Fantastic build quality however.