Above, EMI 319, awesome products of their day, build quality suggests impressive results if only the best matching equipment were known and disappointed many using inferior sources and cabinetry. >>92390GK EMI 350, the EMI 13 x 8 and other models weren't available to most buyers but hobbyists of the early 1970s obtained a few surplus examples from electronics magazines and component catalogs.
<<EMI 92390FA, 3-ohm (DANGEROUS SPEAKER 450 series), LEAK STEREO 30. These are a type of speaker known as Lo-Fi using tube amplifiers of low Damping Factor and upper register (20Hz-14KHz). Oaktron of Wisconsin made many Lo-Fi drivers for superb tube amplifiers like the harman/kardon A300, 'Award Series', and today remain largely unknown to enthusiasts.<<More upper class, elite society EMI 13 x 8 show tweeters heavily doped and in small bookshelf boxes, not to drain low power tube or germanium SS amplifiers, effectively limiting low frequencies reproduced by to above 70Hz. Many EMI 13 x 8 are capable of low notes at 20Hz but it isn't needed for Jazz of the 1950s Swing Band style and these use Leak TL12 or TL10 amplifiers, besides the very pricey Stereo 20.
Amplifier>> for 20w EMI 350, pairs of American Bogen MO-100A restored and found working in Australia, here on Zebra wood veneered plinths. The size of the Output Iron goes some way to explain why 20 watt 350 weren't the most popular of EMI 13 x 8 speakers. 4 x Sylvania 8417 tubes are fitted capable of 100 watts. Below, two stud diodes mean Full Wave rectification via center-tapped power iron, the EMI 350 suited to Solid State rectifiers of the stud type, these later EMI Merciless Speakers weren't often heard of.

The
community using Bogen MO-100A with 20 watt EMI 350 were the
professional studio recording fraternity, EMI speakers elite, their use
by hobbyists somewhat novel, getting good sound with EMI 319 more
likely, the 350 has a heavier cone, a third overall weaker in magnetic flux density of the gap,
designed to have deeper extended bass sounds, more powerful, demanding
too much from domestic amplifiers, it's using professional equipment but
on appearances, EMI 350 were attractive to buyers who just didn't
realize they couldn't hope to use them to any successful degree, and
weren't liked compared to 15 watt EMI 319.
Semon's synthetic rubber - 'plasticized PVC' first used in Klangfilm theater speakers.
KMAL, Expert, Marsden Hall.

Above, the very rare 92390PE, only made available to the mass-market since 1964 and as 'P' professional cores. High gloss finish a curious feature of elite only items, estates with a manor house, typical owners of EMI speakers. Left, Adolf Hitler's type 1932 year Siemens 13 x 8 with stray electromagnetic field copper shielding, the original EMI 13 x 8 loudspeaker.
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...and 4T with four Schaub Lorenz LPH65 (30-18). Keesonic, Below, Hacker. Left and above EMI 9206.
Left a Dyna-Sonic 2T one of the early cobbled-together EMI, surplus core speakers for the general public using 10w ceramic magnet 92390DM and 17KHz twin tweeters over a back wave baffle space. The Dyna-Static was launched in 1960 when in the USA the very first EMI 'DANGEROUS SPEAKER' was offered, the famous DLS 529 based on elite only 1950s speakers. The idea that EMI speakers were hidden from a larger market seems very strange but was due to a social class war.Haut-parleur, Lautsprecher, Zvučnik, Reproduktor, 扩音器, Højttaleren, luidspreker altoparlante emi.
Głośnik, Kaiutin, 拡声器, altoparlante, μεγάφωνο, Hangszóró.
Left in the reel to reel player we had an example of the upper market in a global social system. A class war is a difficult idea for many viewers, rarely is a rainbow seen nor the social classes found to be separate. The boatyard made speaker right above belongs to social classes of the reel to reel buying level.
Left 1960 Glyndebourne gramophone available to the purple social class as made by Thorn Electrical, who'd bought over Beam Echo. Speakers resemble EMI Broadcast 45 to this day hidden. EMI 350 high end folded horn cabinet, the model. Prototype. 92390PB has a white LSH85 electrostatic tweeter, 3.5-inch dia, later 3.125 ins, and no grey or white grille.
Left, a 1960s Sugden console, lower-middle-class and the brand Yorkshire based, used with FANE 13 x 8 for Pure 'Class A' and Damping Factor 16 at 10 watts, later with now extinct Helme Audio kits which had a Bextrene 13 x 8 cone few have seen, there being three versions. Below a nearly extinct Benford Horn based on the 'black basket' EMI 350.Marconi-EMI Model 907 from the year 1938.

Anthony Eden
Above 'Humph' born at Eton College, his father, George William Lyttelton a housemaster.[1]
Monitor Audio MA3 Mk.II
Above the Radford, STA-7 had a tube rectifier and suits the B&W DM.1 right above. Zmags Opera.
EMI 300T, a pair at £1800. DLS 529 £580- £2200 a pair.

Apes Hill Club
>>EMI 9206 with grille removed, note baffle thickness for low frequency accuracy. Below a 1970s SONY TA-2650 43 watt per channel system upmarket of the 22 watt per channel ζ40 TA-1630 but with a ζ25 D.F. so better suited to Hi-Fi EMI speakers. 1630, 2650 and 3650 weren't V-FET, their Bipolar sound thought just as good by dealer opinion and downmarket of expensive V-FET amplifiers of which there are many, a Solid State simulated 'tube sound', and not unique in that respect, QUAD 303 and others aimed at such but after 1980 year the industry turned away from tubes, and the ζ factor matters if using 1960s vintage Hi-Fi or Lo-Fi speakers.
...like the EMI 550, pleated edge, and alloy portion.


Left, Siemens 'Dimple Top' differ from the older flat tops found in the 1957 DECCA Decola Aristocrat. The later envelope is an East German RFT with a large Getter ring.
EMI 901 right according to BBC texts were developed to become a new studio monitor in the year 1964 but are never seen in any publications thereafter. A mystery that carried on in various versions and isn't discussed.
Left, Carad Belgium. Below,
Jchefss rebuilt EMI STD.373.

Above black chassis STD.373 powers 4-ohm cores with Plessey alnico magnets, in Dutton DLS529 and DLS-1 differing in materials from later Scope 529X and below Benjamin 529A. Gold chassis STD.373>> (and below), gold STD controller has Acoustical Manufacturing Co. cast knobs and front panel resembling QUAD QCII (mono) and 22 (stereo) controllers. Dutton 102 below at twice the price of DLS529 is rare in internet auctions.
When the 711 below right ran out of 10 x 6 squawkers, the Dutton 102 above 20 watts, 150,000...
...Maxwells ceramic magnet core is in some DLS 529X above. EMI 750 a revised 711 has a weaker magnet only 100,000 Maxwells for Solid State power. Left below a European HMV 711 likely from before the American Scope Dangerous Speakers.
Gulf Craft. DSS Ferretti Yachts
Right plywood baffle of an EMI 711 showing the higher power tweeters. Left comical GLL Oxford, probably the last speaker's failure to bring the lower man to an inclusive musical experience. Thereafter the higher society largely lost interest and quite rightly so.
Arthur E. Falkus was a Fane founding partner, Fane 13 x 8 and tweeter AF speakers right lost in the mists of time. Keletron KN800 and KN1100 have a Falkus 13 x 8. Left 'Monolithic' QUAD II. Stereo has two small QUAD II mains transformer versions power AM, FM tuners and 22 controllers set but are often overloaded.
In the 1970s EMI had Lockwood Audio sell several flat-pack cabinet kits, the L.E.4 right one of the ready-made examples. The sad thing about anything made for the lower man is the effect of price on some aspect of performance. Vintage audio mixed with modern equipment stems from an assumption that it's all alike and all sounds good to somebody.Sir Dhunjibhoy Bomanji
Sir Orme Garton Sargent
Sir David Ormsby-Gore

QUAD II is very popular today, particularly in Solid State rectifier versions. The 1982 year Concordant was by Doug Dunlop. The 1960s, elite only one left had been owned by horse racing people, its details published in the 1970 Hi-Fi News and Record Review magazine for fellow listeners of the EMI Merciless Speakers. The AcroSound made REALISTIC 210 below had a Solid State rectifier in 1962 and retains separate ECC82, unlike the Scottish Concordant modification that controversially used space compromised vacuum tube, ECC 83 to increase power to...
...22 watts, bettering the RCA Orthophonic. Increased power allows speakers to be further apart. QUAD II isn't much liked by the elite, using the LEAK TL12 instead but the 1950s QUAD II has a very low, 0.02% THD and was used first with Stentorian speakers when Harvard University Law graduate, 'Bud' Fried planned his I.M.F. Hi-Fi Company to import the first American, QUAD ESL57 electrostatic speakers in the 1960s. Right the stereo pair QUAD II differs from the mono sets as nearer tolerance of stereo speaker pairs sold at the time. QUAD electrostatic ESL57 gave within 40Hz-18KHz when sold in specially matched stereo amplifier/ speaker pairs, mono QUAD II reckoned too difficult to make a stereo pair from. 
>>14A/770C excluded from the Merciless speaker advert, part of the mid-1960s 14A series, the 950 being the 14A/600. To say nothing is known of these would be untrue, they're 105, 205, and 215, early versions have a choke on the chassis leg and they were used with Radford STA-25 valve amplifiers below, an affordable upper-middle-class favorite.


Right BBC style self-damping speaker enclosure by 'Heathkit of England', part of the U.S. company - uses EMI 550 below and two cube form alnico 3.5-inch tweeters (like the DLS529) but with Single-Ended amplifiers like the 'Class A' Dynatron above, supplied to Buckingham Palace. Below an actual 550 as 92390CR, one of the rarest EMI 13 x 8 and only found in 4 or 5-ohm impedance. 574G valve. Right bass-reflex slit.
2N3614 PNP TO3 Germanium output 60V 15A 77W in the SUPERSOUND. Left, 92390CR, 5-ohm 550 13 x 8 and with no alloy center in a Lo-Fi version below still with 15-watt magnet, 10-watt coil and doped acoustic center for less pricey amplifiers and equipment. No choosing of straws for buyers of surplus 13 x 8 and vintage bargains.
Early EMI drivers from before the 1967 Merciless Speakers offer hope of something special but speakers like the cobbled-together Mordaunt Short MS-400 below are for lesser equipment. Just don't judge EMI from a mass-market perspective, they were for British elite buyers with deep pockets.
Right not on YouTube to date, five or more Mordaunt Short MS-400 appear, this the first issue 'brown baffle' with early 13 x 8 bass. Note the wonderful, Lockwood Audio black tinted baffle, washed from around the driver apertures to limit reflections. A cobbled-together resin board x-over isn't for elite EMI sound, only profit-led thinking, quickly getting rid of unsold drivers. IMF dropped the KEF T-15 aluminum dome tweeter seen in the rare split baffle STUDIO as the BBC found it colored and the later Rogers LS3/5A, with its KEF drive units isn't a genuine BBC monitor either but
a purple social class mass market speaker, good as working well with affordable amplifiers. The next MS-400 is the 'black baffle' left with a round 12 inch EMI bass unit. An enthusiast could rebuild the x-overs to a BBC reference using the Klipsch x-over as a model. People who restore, must not paint the baffle, just leave the finish. Very difficult to improve such a surface, intended to absorb sound reflections. Painting may well look and sell better but intended sound needs it left original. As to what amplifier best suits the KEF T-15, any purple mass-market Solid State amplifier that suits a Rogers LS3/5A is easy to find.
>>Celestion ring-radiator tweeters from the later 1964 year EMI 519 loudspeaker with 13 x 8 inch 92390G speaker found in the US DLS529 with similar but different acoustic loading quilting. These use an EL34 output stage different from the earlier edition with EMI cone tweeters. The x-over isn't enclosed within the black plastic box of the US export DLS529, a box that apparently prevented pressure changes from blurring the musical details, the lack of the plastic box is very strange, it might suggest export versions were higher spec but the 529 series had Plessey cube magnet cone tweeters that hadn't been of Limited Production.Left an elite magnetic badge from the steel basket weave 'Dangerous Speakers' of the early 1960s, often missing in auctions. Some of the steel grilles are copper color or gold. The red felt edge and grille cloth show remarkable workmanship for superior buyers.

Above photo credit B5234t, Left a Chinese cabinet mounted stereo in a posh townhouse with tall narrow EMI speakers ahead of their time as today the favored modern design. Western Electric, Altec Lansing, AudioVision SF, Ampex, ELAC Audio, Dynaudio, YG Acoustics, Bel Canto Black Pear Audio, Nordost, Fairchild, GOODELL (St Paul MA) ATB-3, NSA-20, Eico, EMI, Heathkit, Leak, Brook, Quad, VOM, Radio Craftsmen, Acrosound, Interelectronics, RCA, Sota, Audio Research, AMC, H.H. Scott, E.H. Scott Radio, Fisher, Harman Kardon, Pilot, GENERAL ELECTRIC AS4A, Grommes 100BA, 215BA, 216BA, 50PG, 51PG, 50PG2, 55C, 55PG, 60PG, LJ-2, Dynaco, Maas-Rowe, Daven, Bogen Presto, Thorens, Telefunken, Yamaha, Shure, Univox, Gretsch, Fender, Allen, AKG, Crown, B&O, Sherwood, Nakamichi, Tascam, Edison, Denon, Contex, Kenwood, Luxman, Counterpoint, Allen, Viking, Gray Research, Empire, Dual, Rek-O-Kut, Mitsubishi, United States Audio, Grado, ESL, Ortophon, Uher, KLH Model 16, Krell.

Berlant, Concord, Conrad-Johnson, Teac, Sony, Pioneer, Tandberg, Electro-Voice, Revox, DBX, Sansui, Spiral Groove, Onkyo, JVC, Panasonic, Howell FilmOSound, Univox, Webster, Hammond, Garrard, Hammarlund, Collins, Hallicrafters, Drake, Conley, Lincoln, Meisner,
Speakers
(cores cabinets and horns) Wilson Audio, Jensen, JBL, Altec Lansing,
Western Electric, Stephens Trusonic, Tannoy, Electro-Voice, University,
RCA, General Electric, Ampex, Acoustic Research AR, Heathkit, Klipsch,
Telefunken, McIntosh, ADS, B&W, Alon, Mission, Quad, Decca, Dukane,
Dukane & EV Ionovac, Rola (Celestion), Magnavox, Eminence, C.T.S.,
Utah, Quam, Pioneer, Sansui, Bose, Allied, Knight, Infinity, Advent,
Hammond, Leslie, Vox, Fender, Allen, Fisher, Nabarro, NAB 2 (Tory MP)>>>EMI 92390 13 x 8 suit low powers and differing Damping Factor amplifiers. The 319 sounds good with 1970s vintage but the 450 needs 1960s. 1990s amplifiers of Damping Factor 60 are for polypropylene cones and won't give the best results with 319 or 350.




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