Philips 22RH427/O1Z Speaker , ebay purchase

[Audio Al]

I have collected these and wired them up today :)
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The cabinets are sealed and are fitted with some cheap ( original doorbell wire speaker cables )
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Advertised on eBay as follows " Pair if Wooden Boxed Philips Floor speakers. My father spend a fortune on them when they were new in the 1970's and they are still great speakers. Unfortunately he passed away last year and we have no use for them so reluctantly selling "

I have my Pioneer PL 570X TT in the system into my Albarry AP11 pre through the Albany phono stage and I have used a Stanton 500 / AT120E and a Ortofon VMS3 Mk11 Cartridges all with similar results
Early days yet but so far my opinion is as follows
Percussion / cymbals / triangle sound good
Sibilance is pronounced ( not good :( )
Guitar / Sax brass is also good , However the mid and base are both lacking :( . I have not yet wired these through that Audio Innovations 500 amp that is 4Ohm compatible , being a valve amp of the correct loading may help ?
My woofers are not acting like the ones in this Youtube video , They may do with the AI 500 ,time will tell :scratch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AfGYVGYlxE

Tarzan arrived this afternoon and his opinion was that the sounded like Sh-t :eek: , I asked Tarzan where were they lacking ?
The reply was " EVERYWHERE " :D
M rAndy has lived with his Harbeths now for 10 years so is blinkered and is happy 2 go with the pipe and slippers reputation that Harbeths have

I will try these with the AI500 amp and pop the speakers out of the cabs and run a meter over them and a visual look at the xovers

Not taking them 2 the landfill site just yet

More 2 follow soon :D

[walpurgis]

I warned you about that tweeter! :D

[Audio Al]

I warned you about that tweeter! :D

But But its not fizzy , its sounds good at some points

I'm just swapping over 2 the Audio Innovations 4 Ohm amp , see what happens :eyebrows:

[Audio Al]

Now running the Audio Innovations 500 :eek:

Blimey :eek: Chalk and cheese moment , They sound so much better with valves through the A I phono stage

Here are a couple of photos for you

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[walpurgis]

It's not a great tweeter Al. There are worse around though. It's the same unit Tandberg used in some of their speakers and Goodmans had it in the various SL models. All of which had that slight top end sting. I've had a couple of pairs of the tweeters myself and tried them in projects and each time rejected them for the same reason.

[Tarzan]

It's not a great tweeter Al. There are worse around though. It's the same unit Tandberg used in some of their speakers and Goodmans had it in the various SL models. All of which had that slight top end sting. I've had a couple of pairs of the tweeters myself and tried them in projects and each time rejected them for the same reason.

:eek:

[sumday]

bass unit looks like a type used in a pair of Tandberg bookshelf speakers I had in the 80s.
were Philips a builder for Tandberg in the past?

NIGE.