![]() They had other gems, the sta 225 was easilly one of the best recievers they offered ,and the TM -1000 tuner was a good contender for seperates. He says it was because they were the little brother to the Optimus 5,Mom liked them because the real wood finish matched the dining room, Yay Mom, allways the deciding vote in the house. ĭad picked these speakers hands down, to run on a new Sony reciever, dual TT,and Sony reel to reel, yet he had to have the minimus speakers Linaeum, an Oregon-based high-end speaker manufacturer, supplied the tweeter subassemblies, which were shipped to Malaysia and placed into the. I still own my minimus 7 pair, currently running on my daughters little sharp stereo it actually makes it sound reasonalble.Īlso Dad gave to me a original set of Minimus 2 that i have connected to the B switch on our electrohome console. Tandy Corporation produced the Realistic Optimus Pro LX5 speaker (Realistic was the speaker brand of that company, which sold in the US via Radio Shack stores, and in the UK exclusively via Tandy). I work in Pro sound, i ve seen some darn good stuff, some so-so,and some plain ole dogs ! In fact its the only house brand on anything that i ve really liked ! I had a magical period that think that I upgraded the audio products in spite of the obstacles that I had to hurdle. Sunwood at that time had little to No skills in acoustics.Īnyway, I left in 1990 over way two many philosophical issues. The T-200 used two 10" active drivers, which unless you use them in a isobaric arrangement (which Sunwood didn't), drives to VAS requirement to double the cabinet size. I know that I was adamant about a using a fourth order passive radiator design. Wow, take a look at this beautiful old girl. I was Senior Director by that time and I was mainly involved in product definition and the design architecture. Gorgeous Realistic STA-2000 Receiver Repair & Service. It's been a long time but I really thought we heatsinked some of the components because of heating issues(?). We had no insertion loss and much greater efficiency (both power and acoustically).īack to the T-300: If you had trouble, it had to be in the mid/tweeter crossover. Bottom line, we didn't need a large inductor and possible shunt capacitor for a good crossover. What that gives you is extra inductance, which when designed properly levels the response and crossover frequency. We use an extra long former and almost twice the windings length of an 8 ohm. The T-100 had two 16 ohm custom made drivers. I read a review on my T-100 that it only had a 4.7 microfarad cap and a 50 ohm variable resistor. From a design point, I didn't like exotic crossovers. I didn't remember problems with the crossovers BUT I'll take you word for it. They were good driver except they had foam surrounds. The woofer and drone were made by Tandy Speakers. The midrange was originally a CTS mid, which Tandy speakers tried to knock off with poor yields. I’ll likely never find another, at least in that condition and at that price.The T-300 tweeter was originally a Peerless soft dome but later a Tonegen knock-off to save money (make Tandy more profit). ![]() Music, even with more hungry speakers like the Polks, could get to uncomfortable levels without distortion.ĭespite being a cute and trusty workhorse, the STA-790 eventually found another home. For some time, I ran a set of Pioneer CS99AAs as ‘subs’ with the treble and mids turned down underneath Polk Monitor 7s. Despite being only 50 watts per channel or so, I never wanted for power, even when I had two sets of speakers hooked up. It started as my main rig and then ended up in the basement, used as my new speaker test, and home theater stereo – I had it hooked up to my TV. This unit started right up, sounded great and never emitted so much as a pop or hiss the whole time I used it. I found it fun, though I never really fiddled with it. In another nod to upcoming 80’s design, the STA -790 had a 7-band equalizer right on the face of the unit, with and EQ override button. In a nod to the next generation, it also had red wattage LEDs which bounced with the music, radiating out from the center of the unit. This one caught my eye because of its compact and stylish design -an early 80’s model, it’s a pastiche of 70’s hi-fi trends: silver metal faceplate, a mess of like-colored knobs, switches, buttons and slides, real-wood side panels, and a greenlit tuner.
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