UREI Speaker discussions

[thierry]

Great posts, Thierry!!All this UREI porn just does wonders for my soul! Great to see others lovin' on UREI too. Really cool to see pics of you back in the day side by side pics of you from today with UREI gear. Good to know about the 6500 amp as well. I just had two dedicated 20A outlets added to my living room to support the amplifiers and other gear I intend to run my UREI's with.Lastly, you NEED those 815's in your life.

Yep I have to go to hannover for the 815, nice trip from south France... For the TAC sr 9000, i whent to check it yesderday.... mein got ! bolchemoy, gross catastroph, big damages ! the desk seem to be stay outside for few years... i found some sand inside ! and lot's of smal dead animals.... all the penny and gilles faders are glue in place, knobs too... i offer a cheap price for it.... i will see, yes porn UREI that's a good word ! Let's go back in the past late 77's the first ones i bought then new !

[DerekTheGreat]

More cool pics! Pretty rad that you bought the monitors brand new. What made you choose UREI monitors over all of the other offerings?

Sand? Dead animals? Sheesh. Aren't consoles like that super expensive? Especially when new? Sad to see people abuse gear like that. Reminds me of Le Studio, their gear ended up with a similar fate. They had 815A's or B's, if I remember right. Some urban explorer filmed what was left of the studio a few years ago, there they were right on the floor amidst other rubble.

[DerekTheGreat]

I was reading Rob's posts and the legendary Mr. Timbers' comments about the 4367 here: https://www.audioheritage.org/vbulle...769#post446769 Timbers mentions that the horn of the 4367 is in the wrong orientation and as a result, it cannot touch any Array in terms of imaging. With that in mind (and other stuff I've come across which suggests it's best to have your horns arranged vertically), why does the literature for UREI systems recommend orienting the horns horizontally? Would there be any gains if I rotated my horns such that they're vertical?

[hjames]

I was reading Rob's posts and the legendary Mr. Timbers' comments about the 4367 here: https://www.audioheritage.org/vbulle...769#post446769 Timbers mentions that the horn of the 4367 is in the wrong orientation and as a result, it cannot touch any Array in terms of imaging. With that in mind (and other stuff I've come across which suggests it's best to have your horns arranged vertically), why does the literature for UREI systems recommend orienting the horns horizontally? Would there be any gains if I rotated my horns such that they're vertical?

Seems easy enough to unbolt one of your woofers and rotate it 90 degrees to see how it plays for you ...
Other than the heavy lift required to put those monsters on their back.

[hjames]

Apologies if I've posted this before - but a few years back I was watching a Tom Petty documentary and sat up at attention when I saw his home monitors were UREI 809s ...
So I took a picture of him on my TV, flanked by my UREI 809 front-main speakers (almost feel guilty using UREI monitors for TV/Movie monitors).

[Mr. Widget]

Nice... I also appreciate your Mystery Clock.

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[DerekTheGreat]

Post away!

I remember this though, what documentary?

We just upgraded the entertainment set-up downstairs. Bit of a bummer to learn the 811C I had lying in wait to be a center channel won't fit with these tables. Need ones half the size, but they didn't exist at the time we bought everything. But, I'm loving the 811C's as left & right! So don't feel ashamed about using your 809's. Perhaps an 809 might fit between the two stands where my 811C didn't..

[Mr. Widget]

Nice setup!
What are your UERIs sitting on.

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[DerekTheGreat]

Thank you, sir!

They're sitting on subwoofers, M&K MX350THX's. I still do not like how the subwoofers' profiles are slimmer than the UREI's, not to mention their woofers are smaller. I'm getting used to it. In my head, a subwoofer's woofer must be larger than (or at least the same size) the main speaker's woofer... My ears disagree though, I'm very pleased with audio down there. I wonder if I'd even like a center channel. From what I remember when I last used one, I wasn't satisfied, especially when listening to concerts. Some stuff was mixed so bad that it was all sent to the center and so it sounded thin. Forcing the old receiver into stereo mode resulted in much better sound and so I eventually disabled the center altogether. This was before the XPL's or UREI's.