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<blockquote data-quote="creeljd58" data-source="post: 7460029" data-attributes="member: 636021"><p>For those of you who never heard Mindblower car speakers, you'll never understand their appeal to the rest of us. I realize this is a car stereo forum but I have been an audiophile for many years and I currently have 10 sets of good to great quality home speakers. Even in home audio the older equipment is far superior to anything being marketed today (although there are some great expensive modern home and car speakers out there). My main home system is a Kenwood KA-7100 integrated amp driving a pair of Technics SB-7000A Linear Phase speakers. My Kenwood 60 watt per channel amp will absolutely destroy most modern amps of 100 watts per channel or more. I can testify to this since I have a very nice Denon 100 watt surround receiver but it simply cannot hang with the 1978 Kenwood integrated amp; 60 watts vs 100 watts and although the Denon sounds respectable it's not even close to the Kenwood amp. In the same way, vintage Mind Blower car speakers have a sonic advantage over most low/mid end modern car speakers. They simply had an unusual dynamic such that the bass was very crisp and tight while the mids/highs were very clean. If you had a pair of these mounted in the rear deck of your car back in the seventies and had a decent head unit like say a Pioneer Supertuner 1, then you were in for a sonic treat that you just can't find now a days. I had mine in the rear deck of a Chevelle and when I cranked the power to the Eagles Hotel California "Victom of Love" you could literally feel the rhythm from Henley's drums "hitting" you in the back of your head! And there was very little distortion (unless you had a crappy head unit), it was an extremely clean and pleasing sound. BTW: I don't consider Tenna Mind Blowers audiophile level car gear, but they did capture a very pleasing sonic signature that was simply not found anywhere else! Man how I miss those cheap old Mind Blower speakers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="creeljd58, post: 7460029, member: 636021"] For those of you who never heard Mindblower car speakers, you'll never understand their appeal to the rest of us. I realize this is a car stereo forum but I have been an audiophile for many years and I currently have 10 sets of good to great quality home speakers. Even in home audio the older equipment is far superior to anything being marketed today (although there are some great expensive modern home and car speakers out there). My main home system is a Kenwood KA-7100 integrated amp driving a pair of Technics SB-7000A Linear Phase speakers. My Kenwood 60 watt per channel amp will absolutely destroy most modern amps of 100 watts per channel or more. I can testify to this since I have a very nice Denon 100 watt surround receiver but it simply cannot hang with the 1978 Kenwood integrated amp; 60 watts vs 100 watts and although the Denon sounds respectable it's not even close to the Kenwood amp. In the same way, vintage Mind Blower car speakers have a sonic advantage over most low/mid end modern car speakers. They simply had an unusual dynamic such that the bass was very crisp and tight while the mids/highs were very clean. If you had a pair of these mounted in the rear deck of your car back in the seventies and had a decent head unit like say a Pioneer Supertuner 1, then you were in for a sonic treat that you just can't find now a days. I had mine in the rear deck of a Chevelle and when I cranked the power to the Eagles Hotel California "Victom of Love" you could literally feel the rhythm from Henley's drums "hitting" you in the back of your head! And there was very little distortion (unless you had a crappy head unit), it was an extremely clean and pleasing sound. BTW: I don't consider Tenna Mind Blowers audiophile level car gear, but they did capture a very pleasing sonic signature that was simply not found anywhere else! Man how I miss those cheap old Mind Blower speakers! [/QUOTE]
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