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Originally Posted by davidhunternyc

The good thing about the Dyson is you can launch a paper airplane through it.

Originally Posted by davidhunternyc

Well, thank you Uncle Erik for your opinions. Yes, this fan is a 24646 and I wrote an article on my restoration for the upcoming December issue of a fan collector magazine. It was actually a huge headache for me having to search old archives and I probably spent thousands of hours talking to other experts about Emerson fans. In the end, I wanted the fan to be as close to what it looked liked when it came off of the production line in 1918. You are correct too in praising the patented motor design of this fan. It was meant to run like a Honda Civic, or more accurately, as simply as a toaster oven. I purchased it after I got fed up with all of the plastic fans that I have been using during the hot and humid New York summers. It is nice to know that there is a fellow Head-Fier who is into electric fans, that's for sure. I was a bit trepidatious when I posted this poll but I am convinced that the electric fan is one of man's most noblest inventions (not quite at the level of the bicycle or umbrella though). Unlike vintage vacuum cleaners, if these fans are kept in good running condition and restored with sensitivity from time to time, they should last forever. As you know too Uncle Erik, this is a thinly veiled comment on the HD800. Yes, it was worse for me than I could have even imagined when I held the HD800 in my hands (but this is for the "other" thread). Your comments about transistors vs. tubes is an apt analogy. I would love to be able to restore an ESL-57 or vintage ESL-63 too. Perhaps it is because I have heard a lot of older audiophile equipment that I am a bit blase' about the new stuff, including the new headphones. I just reached Headphoneus Supremus status and I just want to laugh. I know no nothing about headphones. Yeah, even with the Orpheus, it still is not close to the original sound and I find the technology wanting (soundstaging anyone?). At least these old fans do what they advertise; they blow real air. Anyway, I do find that the 91 years that have passed between these two fan designs to be stupifying, to say the least. This is just too much time but not even close to any improvement. Likewise, have headphones really improved "that" much since the DT48? It is just me, however. Maybe others disagree.