HOW TO MAKE TUBULAR BELLS SOUND REALLY GOOD - USE TUBULAR LOUDSPEAKERS

There's lots of chuff, widgering and choss spoken about loudspeakers.  Just because you read it on a forum it doesn't make it true you know.  Some people think that tubular speakers sound the best. Allegedly, structural rigidity is better, the notch steps in frequency response found in box speakers are.. absent  and again allegedly, because having less than five planar surfaces results in less reflective surfaces .... unless you offset this by having a Rega Planar 3, a signed photograph of Terry Bateman  or a signed copy of a Vibration Measuring Machine which I do...  oh, wait a minute, I am sounding like Peter Belt now!!

From a production standpoint they are a dual edged sword, they use less material but are a pain to make properly, however, this didn't stop a number of manufacturers making them.

Witness this groovy 1973 Panasonic musc centre, not only did it have tubular speakers but dials from a 1972 Ford Mark 2 Cortina as well!

I myself had a fickle foray into tubular speakers with a pair of Rogers JR149 liberated from a jumble sale with rotting wrap around foam.

Although touted as a superlative representation of the famed LS3/5A, to me, they sounded just dreadful. Chesty, constrained and dull - am I the only person in the World that doesn't rate LS3/5A I wonder.

The most praiseworthy part of the JR149 to me were the aesthetic fineness of the crossovers, so pretty.

A younger Mrs Mullard Magic, sans grey hair and curlers, didn't like them either and harshly chastised me for cluttering the hi-fi room with a pair of bongo drums that smelt of dog wee so they had to go.