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Hello!
I'm really sorry I cannot speak any Swedish and I hope it is not unpolite of me to write in English - but maybe some of you can help me.
Today, I bought a pair of Larson Pyramids. But not the LP 720, but different ones. Bigger ones.
But I cannot find any information about them on the web. At the moment, I just know that the subwoofer is a SEAS 25 TV.
If you have any information about these seemingly rare loudspeakers - please let me know!
Welcome to the forum!
Many of us read English today,so that shouldn't be a problem.
Now to the loudspeaker in question-I'm not surprised that you don't find much info on these loudspeakers,since there can't be that many made.However,they are called Ljudmiljö LM70.
Bengt Larson(the designer of Larson speakers)co-worked with a company called Ljudmiljö that made his loudspeakers.
What's a little puzzling to me is that they are advertised as kits,but I have never seen anything but readymade in jakaranda(rosewood).
Thank you very much for your help, really appreciated! And thanks for the warm welcome.
Since I've bought them on ebay, I still couldn't listen to them - but I think, with the SEAS components the loudspeakers will do a good job in our 3-man office.
When were these speakers built? Around 1970? And does maybe a test / review exist, maybe in an old hifi magazine?
They first appeared in this ad late in 1973.
As far as I know there is no review.
The other drivers are with almost 100% certainty also Seas,since Ljudmiljö was the importer in those years.Could you take some more pictures of the mids and the tweeter,please?It would be interesting to see their placement and so on.I'm guessing the mids are Seas 9 TV-HF or something like that,and complemented by a Seas H 087 dome tweeter.
(We're writing history here,since noone has ever shown pictures of this loudspeaker,except plain pictures of the front!)
You're right there (with the history). I've searched the net for hours and hours, but could not find any traces of them. Well, in one forum someone wrote about the possible existence of 2 loudspeakers of Larson that were bigger than his better known LP 720.
I still don't have them - at the moment, they're 500 km far away and hopefully, I'll get them end of next week. I've already been told by the seller, that he thinks that all the chassis work and that everything under the grill is hidden under copious amounts of dust - and that he didn't get the grill off (he didn't dare to try with a little bit more force though).
I'll post pictures of them the day I get them, no worries. First thing I do probably, before ripping them open and taking a sharp look at the capacitors. About 40 years, they might need a swap.
I am an Austrian living in Berlin. When I was younger, I got a degree at an engineering school for electronics and was working part time at a small high-end shop (selling Copland, Verdier, Triangle, Musical Fidelity and the likes - but somehow fell in love with from the second hand section of the shop. Even if the curves of the speakers measured in the dead room at our school were miserable from the technical side of view (compared to studio boxes like Dynaudio, Genelec and our diploma project), their musical color was quite astonishing. Especially for old Tannoys.) That's how I fell in love with sometimes weird constructions!
The price of the speakers was 175 euros, in case anyone is interested. The seller works as a 2nd hand salesman or the likes (I think) - he told me he had to clean out an old villa, found these speakers and put it up on ebay. Seems like he was expecting 20 euros or so (before researching, he expected them to be part of an old music box or so) - he was quite astonished about the selling price, when I called him.
The reason why I bought omnidirectional speakers is quite simpe: we are 3 people working in our small office, and it is impossible to find a satisfying audio solution with conventional speakers. And I've been reading quite a lot about the Sonab speakers, but never ever heard them! So I'm really looking forward to hearing the Larsons. I still have to get some granite plates (or the likes) to put under the speakers - would you think that's necessary? The office floor is either carpet or linoleum.
