There are some really nice sounds to be had from vintage continental drivers. Not tried Telefunkens, but had Philips, Peerless, Audax, Saba and Isophon vintage alnicos and others.
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There are some really nice sounds to be had from vintage continental drivers. Not tried Telefunkens, but had Philips, Peerless, Audax, Saba and Isophon vintage alnicos and others.
Aye, they were used in churches often in multiple driver boxes so may have done....they are 10 inch diameter with alnico magnetsQuote:
Originally Posted by spendorman
These are the nicest Ive heardQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
8" units above? Looks a good job, how are the units wired? I ran Golden 10" full range Wharefdales many decades ago, but decided that they were better with some tweeters.
No they are same drivers.. 10 inch. they are wired in series. they are telefunken L242's dont see many, as I have most of the ones I ve seen for sale ;) Ive 7 in totalQuote:
Originally Posted by spendorman
Ive a set of rola celestion 12 inch in boxes too. they are nice as well, and a set of old Fane 8 inchers in smaller boxes..
I suppose you did that to get 8 Ohms. Parallel connection can cancel out some peaks in the response, I guess that you probably know this already, Briggs book.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I have tried some Philips units, all seemed good apart from a dome midrange, too cardboardy sounding, Audax too.
Well actually they are less than 3 ohm nominal each although probably average out at about 5.. the 2 in series give just under 6 ohms nom. they are extremely efficient at about 100db but only 8 watts. Dont really need more than a few to sing loud and true. Get the reflex box right and they are fabulous speakers and have ousted by far all others Ive heard. (for me anyways)
got some alnico Philips drivers here.. they aint in same league.. not sure what model though
I had a set of these a while back:
http://i66.tinypic.com/6ia549.jpg
From the US. University (subsidiary of Altec) Diffaxial 312 drivers. 12" twin cone plus concentric phenolic dome tweeters & alnico mags all round.
They sounded amazing, but needed boxes that were just too huge for my environment. Shame.
They look nice.. big boxes probably of size I just built.... my Rola's are a bit like that with the twin cone. not as smart, but same sizeQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
They needed boxes somewhere between Tannoy Lancaster and York size. In other words bloody big!