Bargains on ebay?

[synsei]

Interesting idea though. Reminds me of some of the Jordan Watts speakers of the late '60s, that were "disguised" to look like ceramic pots!

I'd forgotten all about these Barry, brings back some memories... hehe

[Barry]

I'd forgotten all about these Barry, brings back some memories... hehe

Wow! You found that image pretty damned quick.

Yes, those were what I had in mind. Have no idea if they sounded any good.

Does anybody know if they were an infinite baffle or a 'ported' design. I wonder how well the ceramic enclosure was damped?

[The Grand Wazoo]

They were an infinite baffle, I think Barry

[The Grand Wazoo]

Next time you go to the Akihabara and have 148,000 Yen burning a hole in your pocket, you could buy some to check. See here

[walpurgis]

Have no idea if they sounded any good.

They sounded horrible. A real 'squawk' to them, badly coloured. But the the drivers were coloured anyway due to the enclosing slotted box chassis and using these small 'pottery' enclosures just aggravated things.

[MartinT]

Next time you go to the Akihabara and have 148,000 Yen burning a hole in your pocket, you could buy some to check. See here

They look like a variable ported (!) design.

The last time I was in Akihabara you couldn't get me away from there. The Laox shop alone, oh mama...

[istari_knight]

Cant be that bad surely ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MS-VS-100-...item3f2562e155

[Effem]

Just blagged one of these off ebay



for a massive £132

Stuff me sideways!

Just received this amp and giving it a quick whirl. By heck this thing can make a pair of miniscule scruffy old Eltax bookshelf speakers dance Shut your eyes and another speakers are doing the business for sure. Bass is copious but not woolly or overblown at all. Have Focus 3 in the player and the track "Anonymous" has a real powerful growl to it during the bass guitar solo and when the drums join in

This is what I call a real "Bargain on ebay"

[walpurgis]

Cant be that bad surely ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MS-VS-100-...item3f2562e155

This seller has obviously got fed up. I've seen this pair listed numerous times. As you say they can't be that bad. They use a version of the Tannoy/Goodmans Imagio DCT driver, which usually sounds OK.

[walpurgis]

Just won these Tannoy Lynx speakers for £360. Basically the same drivers as the SRM12X if I'm not mistaken and they are a hard edged version of the 3128 driver used in my Cheviot II speakers. Should be nice! Only local too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-TANNOY-L...vip=true&rt=nc

Update. I have now collected these and they are in pretty decent nick. They come from a small PA company run by an old chap (older than me!) who seems to be running things down towards retirement and I don't think these have been used much in the last few years. The drivers look very good and are working perfectly. I was given a demo whilst there. The sound was typical Tannoy DC, very lucid, limited in bass by the small cabinets of course. The drivers etc., will be used in a forthcoming speaker project, using some useful tweaks to update the performance. I'll do a thread on this.