spider
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Post by spider on Jul 21, 2021 10:35:12 GMT
For Sale Impulse H2 Speakers These came to me from the original owner, he used them for a year and then stored them for over 20 years. They are in time warp condition. Absolutely immaculate. Woofers have had a recent refoam with proper H2 refoam kit to be sure they are spot on. Beautiful grain on the veneers, I would say rosewood colour. Pictures show it’s colour well. They sound fantastic, many people think H2s were the jewel in the impulse crown. If you ever fancied trying H2s this is the pair to have. They are sensitive and work well with valve amps Or solid state. I think they are 95db. They can be transported in a large car of estate, I can get them in my Focus estate easily. They need to be collected or by HiFi taxi courier is not a realistic option. I am willing to meet up or delivery within reason for petrol costs. I think £1150 is fair for them. Impulse H2: Arguably the best of the lot. Capable of stupendous bass quality and extension - although specified for cutoff at 40Hz, in-room measurements at home show extension flat down to 30Hz, -6dB at c.27Hz. Positioning close to the rear wall is recommended, but this speaker is remarkably unfussy about siting. Tractrix midhorn with driver open to rear and top, inverted-dome tweeter Sensitivity 95dB/W, 8ohm Drivers: 8.5" Seas bass; 4.5" Seas mid; Focal tweeter. Crossover ponts: 800Hz; 4Khz; 2nd order summed response. Size: 1160mm H x 270mm W x 480mm D Finishes: Rosewood or Oak with cloth inserts.
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Bigman80
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Post by Bigman80 on Jul 21, 2021 12:35:47 GMT
They look very tidy!
But, in an attempt to derail this thread temporary......what is that plinth on your SP10?
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spider
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Post by spider on Jul 21, 2021 21:31:41 GMT
It’s a plinth of layered ply with corian top
Speakers are Sold
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Bigman80
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Post by Bigman80 on Jul 21, 2021 22:37:20 GMT
It’s a plinth of layered ply with corian top Speakers are Sold Well done! I'd love to see a thread on that.
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Post by antonio on Jul 22, 2021 1:58:58 GMT
That was quick, well done, I was going to say they looked very nice, and that I've never heard a pair of Impulse speakers, not that I was in the market for them
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Post by alit on Jul 22, 2021 5:09:05 GMT
Great speakers. These look to be the best condition I’ve seen.
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Post by dsjr on Jul 28, 2021 16:54:12 GMT
I remember loving Jimmy Hughes' pair although it was a long time ago and before he angled them to the back wall to give a totally etherial effect. Huge size for many domestic rooms sadly, but I hope the buyer enjoys their music played through them.
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Post by alit on Jul 31, 2021 8:58:20 GMT
Was it not H1’s he had?
A friend has a pair, they’re huge!
Immense bass..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2021 5:25:48 GMT
Just seen this! H2s are great. I may be biased...
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Bigman80
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Post by Bigman80 on Aug 15, 2021 7:14:11 GMT
Wow, what are those amplifiers?
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Post by dsjr on Aug 15, 2021 10:10:01 GMT
Was it not H1’s he had? A friend has a pair, they’re huge! Immense bass.. Late reply with apologies. You've got me now... They certainly had the Focal tweeter as well as the top horn, as he was tinkering with the padding resistor it had, feeling that although the balance was possibly better with tweeter resistor installed (a hefty metal encased wirewound totally ott for the task although it looked good), he thought the sound 'clearer' with it bypassed and not just 'cos the tweeter level went up either. Mind you, back in the day with the speakers a few feet forward and below the seating position, anything went really as he never listened sat down where the speakers were (there are pics of his listening room as it was to show what I mean). very old memories now but I remember always being impressed with the music he played, this before he angled the speakers away from the listening position. He used DNM exclusively by then with massively long DNM solid core unscreened interconnects. How the heck he largely avoided rf and taxi intertference living in the Barbican I'll never know.
Whatever, I shudder to think how much they'd sell for now with massively increased shipping charges these days (they seem to have doubled since 2016) and general price increases across the board.
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Post by alit on Aug 15, 2021 17:52:02 GMT
Not sure myself TBH, just got a vague memory of seeing a picture of his listening room and the speakers looking too big to be H2's. Given my memory has many of the same properties as a sieve, I could well be wrong.
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Post by macca on Aug 15, 2021 19:44:38 GMT
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Post by antonio on Aug 16, 2021 2:16:05 GMT
When I saw that photo I immediately thought of Bigman's room.
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Post by Bigman80 on Aug 16, 2021 4:32:51 GMT
When I saw that photo I immediately thought of Bigman's room. 😶
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Post by dsjr on Aug 16, 2021 9:49:43 GMT
Ahhh - thanks muchly chaps
Jimmy admits to H1's in that review,. So damned long ago and oceans under several bridges since I last spent time with him in 1995 or so. Great times and, whatever our differing views on speaker placement (he's a huge omni fan I remember), the music - ah the music he played - all genres too and such a joy to listen to. I could never replicate the solid core thing and definitely not the Peter Belt phenomenon at home, but in his listening space it did seem to make sense. he's filled it all up in this article though, especially the crowded lower floor where the speakers used to be - he's an amazing chap to talk to (for once, I couldn't always get a word in )
The chairs were further forward as there were stacks of records piled behind them, but the stair area was similarly full... The view to the window was nothing like as full in the mid 90's and walls were visible
We both married since the mid 90's and my better half travels light (opposites attract?). As we may be moving ourselves before too long, she's becoming more assertive as per my stash of stuff - (Biggie, I'm resisting in futility, but once the old office room is in better shape I'll start taking pics and post some stuff up for sale if anyone's interested).
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Post by alit on Aug 16, 2021 12:08:26 GMT
Good to know my memory isn’t completely useless then.😂
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Post by antonio on Aug 16, 2021 13:50:38 GMT
Having had a second look I can understand the blank expression, but the carpet is a similar colour and the unit between the speakers, with the window above somehow seemed to be like your internal doors, strange how the brain can play tricks on you, especially mine.
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Post by Bigman80 on Aug 16, 2021 20:28:34 GMT
Having had a second look I can understand the blank expression, but the carpet is a similar colour and the unit between the speakers, with the window above somehow seemed to be like your internal doors, strange how the brain can play tricks on you, especially mine. 🤣
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2021 23:14:30 GMT
Wow, what are those amplifiers? The amps are a pair of Navison NVS-003g monoblocks. 4x6C33C per channel, in an OTL design. The silver box in the middle is a Music First Passive pre-amp, flanked by what was at the time a two-box DAC from Danish Audio Designs DAC, and a separate power supply. That later grew to a 3-box DAC with the addition of a box of capacitors between the DAC and PSU. Source would have been a laptop streaming via a SonicWeld Diverter USB->S/PDIF converter. The pic is 'my room' at one of the earliest HiFiWigwam Scalford shows.
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