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DIY Altec, B&C, Coral Horn Speaker The Big, The Bold and The Beautiful Very reluctant sale of my two beautiful horn speakers which I bought here on the forum about 2 years ago. Gryffles/Ben who assembled them spent a lot of time, money and effort to get them just right and he did a marvelous job. I was running Sonus Faber and then Marten speakers in my system prior to acquiring the horn speakers and I have to say that, in my system, the horns outperform all the other speakers I owned. Only reason for selling is that we are moving house and they are unfortunately too wide to fit in the
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Coral was a Japanese audio brand founded in 1968 in Tokyo, and it is generally traced to Fukuyo Sound Co., Ltd. as an earlier company name or predecessor. The brand was active under the Coral Audio Corp. name in Japan and appears to have faded out by the 1980s, which is why much of what survives today is discussed in vintage-audio circles.
Coral is best known for loudspeakers and speaker drivers, especially full-range units, kit speakers, and a wide range of replacement or OEM drivers used by other manufacturers. The company also produced complete speaker systems, including the better-known SA-series models, but its reputation rests more on transducers and drivers than on amplifiers, turntables, DACs, or headphones.
In the market, Coral sits firmly in the vintage-collector category rather than the modern high-end mainstream. Its best-regarded products are sought after by enthusiasts for their distinctive Japanese engineering and historical interest, while some later or mass-market designs are viewed more as period curiosities than elite reference gear.
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