Comments on: Speaker Week(s) Begins with Jordan Watts https://www.preservationsound.com/speaker-weeks-begins-with-jordan-watts/ information and ideas about audio history Sat, 16 May 2020 15:09:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ian https://www.preservationsound.com/speaker-weeks-begins-with-jordan-watts/#comment-599967 Sat, 16 May 2020 15:09:33 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7149#comment-599967 Ive just discovered a set of Gemini Speakers and will be doing a full write up and restoration log on my website http://www.iandwynn.com its was great to find this information here! great website!
Ian

]]> By: steve cashmore https://www.preservationsound.com/speaker-weeks-begins-with-jordan-watts/#comment-575996 Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:10:41 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7149#comment-575996 In 1980 I bought a pair of Jodrells direct from Jordan Watts and coupled them to twin mono 25w ultra-linear valve amps. Pre-amp was a phono-only, dual mono all triode valve job. Best combination I ever had for classical music.
A year after purchase a passing car blasted a CB radio signal through them and killed one of the drivers. Jordan Watts replaced it free of charge.
Not surprised to hear of their present day cult status.

]]> By: Jess https://www.preservationsound.com/speaker-weeks-begins-with-jordan-watts/#comment-236756 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:10:41 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7149#comment-236756 I was recently given a pair of faulty (but cosmetically almost perfect) Jordan Watt Speakers. I’m pretty sure I have repaired them successfully.

Now I wish to identify them and find out their specifications.

They are about 5 feet tall and piano black, they have 13 (that’s NOT a typo) metal drivers each, in a line vertically. (arranged 2 lf, 9 hf, 2 lf).

As far as I know they date from the mid – late 80s and were purchased in a closing down sale.

I have not been able to find a picture on the web, I have seen a unit with what appears to be the same cone, but just the one, in a similar style.

]]> By: Colin Shelbourn https://www.preservationsound.com/speaker-weeks-begins-with-jordan-watts/#comment-232808 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 11:30:16 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7149#comment-232808 It’s nice to see these on the web. The Jordan-Watts module was advanced for its day and many thousands were produced. They have become highly collectable, especially in Japan. If you have no objection, we have added a link to your site to the current E J Jordan website.

EJ Jordan Designs continues to manufacture single driver, fullrange speakers and we are always interested in seeing examples of older units in use.

Best regards

EJ Jordan Designs

]]> By: Henry M. Summers https://www.preservationsound.com/speaker-weeks-begins-with-jordan-watts/#comment-206886 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:57:26 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7149#comment-206886 I came upon your excellent website by doing a Google search for Sidney Smith. In the mid-1970s, I was a Jordan Watts dealer. The unique aluminum driver sounded superb in the low-diffraction ceramic enclosure called the Flagon (see above). It did many things brilliantly, but was limited dynamically, and didn’t bounce. I still have a single Flagon, its mate shattering on a customer’s floor many years ago. Best regards,
–Chef Henry

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