his
stereo system In 1957. He had a "Berlant Concertone"® tape player. This is the stereo I spent hours in front of listening to all the fine albums that were produced in the late fifties and through the sixties. After hearing the Klipschorn's® I knew that was the design I wanted to have in my home. All were monetarily out of my reach as a young man with a wife and three sons.
Electrovoice® manufactured a horn system but it was also big bucks. They did, however, offer plans where one could build their "Regency" cabinet. I purchased the plans, designed the cabinet to go between them and a good friend who owned a cabinet shop cut them out for me. The doors opened in the center cabinet revealing album storage on the right and all the pre-amps and amplifiers on the left. He surprised me with the front trim pieces made out of 2x2" walnut - a priceless item today. I worked for a month assembling the pieces with screws and glue. It took another couple of weeks to stain and spray about six coats of clear lacquer. The result was a stereo system that spread out over eight feet across the room. In the "Hi Fi" crowd you were judged by the size of your stereo system. Boy!, I was in with the best of them.
RIGHT:This is the real thing. A factory "Regency" in blonde, one of two other colors offered, mahogany
and walnut. It had a beautiful gold metal frame in the front - I
couldn't afford that either. I really could not afford the fabric either
- bought some cheaper stuff. These beauties weighed in at about 75 lbs
each. I could just about afford the shipping cost of the units. Note:
Right. The unit had a 15" woofer, a mid-rage horn just above the speaker
and a tweeter just to the left. It had heavy transformer housing for the
crossovers which contributed to the weight. I cheated, however, and used
Jensen speakers and tweeters for they cost less than the EV's. No one
ever questioned me about this and I never brought the subject up. These
units survived four brutal moves to new homes and still worked
perfectly. 
