Crafty

August 17th, 2007

I own a pair of ESS Heil amt-1 speakers.

You heard me right.

Back in the early 70’s my speakers represented the pinnacle of audio technology. Thirty-five years ago, long-haired Audio Dorks stood around classy showrooms and salivated over the bell-like clarity of my “Air Motion Transformer” tweeter technology.
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Three years ago, Kaveri and I were given these cool speakers from a friend of ours—originally a hand-me-down from his audiophile dad. We were thrilled.

And so we treated them very poorly—allowing our frisky cats to use the speakers as scratching posts and tear the thick material that covers them to shreds. And pretty soon the speakers looked like shit.

So about 2 weeks ago, I decided to recover them with this cool fabric I bought at Mood, the fabric store made famous by reality television.

Now the speakers look like this:
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I am crafty.

3 Responses to “Crafty”

  1. kaveri Says:

    you are a master craftsman.
    maybe the cats are audiophiles, expressing their appreciation of our superior speakers in the sensuous, tactile manner we know as scratching.

  2. Terry Says:

    Wow. My folks still have a pair of these in the basement. I don’t think they work anymore. But I listened to plenty of LPs on ‘em when they did work.

    Nice job refurbishing them!

    -Terry

  3. Christina Says:

    Those are bea-utiful. Why are speakers always covered with black fabric anyway?

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