The onken cabinets are 55cm deep so pretty close.
Being pedantic the Tone Scout came before the Air Scout as they were an improved and more commercial version with the nice veneers and the 2405 in place of the cp21f
Kev told me he started thinking about the partners in 89’ish, built the first one in 90/91 and then the Tone Scouts in 93. He thinks my old ones were probably in the first 3 to be made as they had the RW24 subs which he gave up on fairly quickly.
Did he give up on them because he wasn’t selling them because they weren’t really domestically acceptable, or because they had a technical deficiency?
He wasn’t even aware of compression drivers & multi way horn set ups until I came back from that Paris show raving about them & that definitely wasn’t as early as 89. When I’m able to climb the ladder I’ll get up in the loft & find the mag where I wrote it up. To his credit he moved from the Thunderbolts to having a finished up set of Air Partners in a surprisingly short time as I recall. Initially he was making use of a cabinet maker called Bill Webb who used to build the 191’s for Vitavox. Proper old school woodworker, he was.
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He realised that subwoofers are supposed to have bass. 
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Only going on what he told me but he’s probably ‘revised’ dates so LV has a bit more history 
To quote him ‘they sounded a bit shit’ but yes they had a deficiency where they still only went down to 50Hz like the main cabs and just reinforced the bass rather than extending it.
These days you’d probably just throw a tapped horn at it - a better space/LF extension compromise.
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Don’t forget that you would need 2 of them.
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I heard the APs at Kevin’s place in West Bridgford around 1993. Completely knocked my perception of HiFi sideways.
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I had a similar epiphany in Adam’s man-cave in 2009. A little over a year later I’d ditched my pumped-up murican hifi in favour of a horn based system.
My only regret was that I never gone out of my way to hear horns earlier!
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If anybody would entertain me in hearing some horn systems to get some more ideas etc it would be greatly appreciated.
Where are you based, Chris?
In the West Midlands, Stourbridge way.
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If you want to hear a commercial horn you can listen to my AGs. They are pretty well suited to rooms where you have a space constraint. I’m based between Nottingham and Grantham. Just drop me a PM.
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You’re welcome to come here for a listen if you ever visit the North East? South Shields to be more precise.
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Just to cover all of the country, Air Scouts in Newhaven East Sussex!
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