Mystery thrift store speaker.

[Tensepian]

Another thrift store "score". $10 for this handsome vintage tower. Two way. Real wood veneer on very well assembled cab.
It blew away all the Sanyo, Sony, etc at the store, and compares quite well with my Infinity Kappa 6's (as good, less low end, but maybe better imaging)

No markings. The writing on back is from store sorters. Does anyone recognize it? Is there a way to identify by pulling woofer, etc???

Any insight appreciated!

 

[Andyman]

That tweeter looks a lot like the Vifa I'm trying to match up in a Paradigm Export monitor...

 

[bakes]

it looks very familiar - possibly a transmission line design? Tweeter is a SEAS unit, a very respectable 1" dome used in dozens of different brands. If you can pull the woofer and see what the markings are, it may help.

 

[slimecity]

Nice. yea looks to me like a home-baked TDL design, possibly vifa tweeter. Woofer looks good with a rubber surround too

 

[audiomagnate]

I vote home brew as well.

 

[toxcrusadr]

You can pull the drivers and get numbers off the backs and figure out who made them, and possibly when.

 

[Audi0]

Home brew is my guess. The tweeter I've seen before. It was really popular in the 80s early 90s.

 

[ra.ra]

How about a close-up pic of the rear terminal cup?

 

[Tensepian]

Heres the back panel pulled off. The two coils appear to have come unglued from where they were mounted on the panel.

 

[Tensepian]

Well spotted to those who said Vifa, the serial on the tweeter does indeed seem to match those used by Vifa/Peerless/tymphany(which is the parent company I cannot tell). Nothing on the woofer but it looks like it could be an early version of Peerless SDF line.

If it is home brew, it’s excellent cabinet work. Even interior seams are glued and sealed. Looks like aucousic MDF base.

And to those who said TDL/Transmission, yeah I see that, has the same block base and feet as a TDL

But alas, no markings

 

[jcamero]

Never mind, looked at wrong speaker.

 

[nexus]

looks like an Audionics TL speaker from a long extinct Oregon company and was designed by Lynn Olson i believe, though the tweeter and possibly the woofer look to have been replaced at some point. with a woofer in a TL, it is imperative to have the exact driver that the line was designed and tuned for. one might get real lucky and it works good but usually not.

neverthless, you did make a score there! (Audionics are rare).