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It's probably down to dedication. I built my first speaker in 1965, it was to accompany the Bass Guitar I had made in the previous year. I have always thought it was in me to do these things, I'm probably like a stick of rock with speakers written right through the middle. I would say that unlike a few of my colleagues in the business, I always remained hands on and stayed on the shop floor, as apposed to retiring to the office. Although as you get older, you start to forget things, especially what you did 40 years ago, but with speakers, I don't seem to forget much. I started out wanting to design and build speakers and that is what I continue to do. I can remember so many off the installs because I, together with the team did them. Who could forget 10 days in Dublin doing the Mean Fiddler for Vince. We had a great time ( after work I mean ). And the time he decided to open two venues on the same night and had us running between the two without any sleep for three days. These things are etched in my Brain, what is left of it.

One of the early sites we did in the Organization was the Original one in London. We then did the Wexford site. That was just one main room with Satellites. The main system was MX600's etc with our curved monitors. the Sats were Spektra cabs.

the gear my mate picked up last year was 6 bs1200s, and 2 mx600s. and there were a few curved front monitors. someone said it had come out of the pub "next door to whelans" which would have been the wexford inn, which became mean fiddler, which has since changed name about 3 times.

the two venues are now owned by the same people. so was the second install you did at the same time for vince power also in dublin?

There would have been a small amount saved, but the weight wasn't the issue. As stated before, it was purely sight lines that were a problem. I had to get them as small as possible and still get the impact. I could have built 12" columns, but the dynamics wouldn't have been the same once they pushed it for the heavy Rock bands that played there. I even made a full size cardboard speaker for the venue so that the size could be approved.

how much did you pay for the pair? anyone know of anyone looking to get rid of a pair of mx600's? perchance...