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    Vintage Mind Blower speakers???

    The original Mindblowers were 'duocone', and the Mindblower II's were true coaxial's. If you study that patent, you'll see that they did some innovative things that should have resulted in a good clear sound at an affordable price. Since none of these speakers exist in the wild anymore to...
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    Vintage Mind Blower speakers???

    PS-We all knew that those speakers sounded great, but we didn't know why. It turns out Tenna had a patent for a push-pull amplifier driving a speaker with a split voice coil, which allowed for higher output with less distortion for a given wattage. See US Patent 4130725 (forum won't allow me to...
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    Vintage Mind Blower speakers???

    Was thinking about Mindblower speakers for some reason, did a web search and found this thread. I agree with the others who attested to the sound quality of these speakers. One thing that I didn't see mentioned was the fact that there were two generations of Mindblowers. The first had duocone...
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