Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

[The Black Adder]

these are fetching good money

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-of-Go...3D321976182050

[montesquieu]

these went for stupid money

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-of-Go...3D321976182050

fixt

[Marco]

Not rate them, Tom? Always thought the vintage Axioms were rather good myself

Marco.

[struth]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Large...p2056016.l4276


Fancy these but are in Kent so I'm buggered. May be very good, but at the worst they are nice cabs..... pity so I will point folk in their direction

[walpurgis]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Large...p2056016.l4276


Fancy these but are in Kent so I'm buggered. May be very good, but at the worst they are nice cabs..... pity so I will point folk in their direction

I'd not bother Grant. The EMI 350 unit was not brilliant (not as bad as the 450 though). Dirt cheap in its day. The cabinets I'd estimate are the same sort of size as the IMF Super Compact.

[montesquieu]

Not rate them, Tom? Always thought the vintage Axioms were rather good myself

Marco.

Not the worst by any means Marco but the idea they do a proper job at all frequencies from 20hz to 20khz is bananas ... I did have a play with full range drivers years ago and yea they are fun, but regardless of cabinet used they are always prone to distortion and break-up somewhere or other and not in a good way ....

I know Axioms are very different beasts to tannoys and will attract a different sort of buyer but still - £850 - think what you could have instead!

[walpurgis]

Not rate them, Tom? Always thought the vintage Axioms were rather good myself

Marco.

They were pretty good. But not worth anything like that much. Good examples are getting scarcer, but if I was after a pair I'd expect to pay the usual (these days) £400 (ish) value. Twenty five years ago, they'd have been worth £30.

[struth]

I'd not bother Grant. The EMI 350 unit was not brilliant (not as bad as the 450 though). Dirt cheap in its day. The cabinets I'd estimate are the same sort of size as the IMF Super Compact.

ok... i saw another set of cabs with drivers in that are a fair bit bigger. might be of use to me.

[spendorman]

I'd not bother Grant. The EMI 350 unit was not brilliant (not as bad as the 450 though). Dirt cheap in its day. The cabinets I'd estimate are the same sort of size as the IMF Super Compact.

Agreed, but it was mainly the tweeter on the 350 that was not quite up to scratch. The 13"x8" in the 350 was not bad. The 450 had two even nastier tweeters and a bass unit with a much smaller magnet. However, for the low cost, both 350 and 450 were pretty good value in the day.

Changing the tweeter in the 350 might make a much better speaker. Strangely, the EMI paper coned tweeter before the 350 one was way better.

[walpurgis]

Agreed, but it was mainly the tweeter on the 350 that was not quite up to scratch. The 13"x8" in the 350 was not bad. The 450 had two even nastier tweeters and a bass unit with a much smaller magnet. However, for the low cost, both 350 and 450 were pretty good value in the day.

Changing the tweeter in the 350 might make a much better speaker. Strangely, the EMI paper coned tweeter before the 350 one was way better.

I know what you're saying. The 350 had the decent enough main cone and surround, as used on other better drivers, but was unfortunately stuck with an inadequate little magnet. The tweeter lacked the pretty effective vinyl cone surround on the better units. The vinyl surround EMI tweeters were quite good, but not as good as the contemporary little Goodmans tweeter with similar vinyl surrounds and an alnico magnet and a nice felted paper cone. I remember experimenting with these tweeters and was very impressed by the Goodmans units.