Frazer speakers
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Wornears
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I have a pair of Frazier Mark V. They have a 10-inch woofer, two 4-inch mids, and a horn tweeter. Heavy duty cloth-type surrounds. Also a 1-inch high open slot across the bottom-back for bass port -- 30 wpc and ideal on tube equipment. Very, very robust cabinets, huge crossover components, and beefy, large magnet drivers. A challenger to Klipsch horn-type speakers of this size, and some advocate they are better sounding. Jack Frazier and PWK were very respectful of each other.
See this thread from Klipsch site:
http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/133562/ShowPost.aspx
Do a search there on Frazier or Frazier Mark for more info on Frazier.
Mine sound very well balanced and smooth. Made a believer out of me on using a horn for HF -- always sounded too shrill to me before.
You will find very very little on the Net about the Frazier consumer line of speakers. Frazier is still big in the commercial installation of sound systems. Jack Frazier has been largely forgotten, although he seems to have had something on the audio ball -- forming a company with Ed May (Frazier-May speakers) with a design that ultimately led to the JBL Aquarius, and able to have the respect of PWK (who may have "absorbed" some of Frazier's ideas in his designs, or the other way around). Certainly, those two were on the same page on turning electricity into sound using horn drivers.
Ever decide to unload one pair of those Dixielanders, Dou, let me know. :yes:
Photos: Of one of my Mark V as it came from the factory
MarkV frontal -- High/Mid L-pads are above the blue tags
MarkV inside -- Stout stamped woofer basket, mids are enclosed in sealed box, sizeable horn
MarkV crossover -- large paper-wrapped choke (w/39); and another above it, flat on top of mid's box; red cap, another white one is on top of mid's box at right, but obscured by damping material
See this thread from Klipsch site:
http://forums.klipsch.com/forums/133562/ShowPost.aspx
Do a search there on Frazier or Frazier Mark for more info on Frazier.
Mine sound very well balanced and smooth. Made a believer out of me on using a horn for HF -- always sounded too shrill to me before.
You will find very very little on the Net about the Frazier consumer line of speakers. Frazier is still big in the commercial installation of sound systems. Jack Frazier has been largely forgotten, although he seems to have had something on the audio ball -- forming a company with Ed May (Frazier-May speakers) with a design that ultimately led to the JBL Aquarius, and able to have the respect of PWK (who may have "absorbed" some of Frazier's ideas in his designs, or the other way around). Certainly, those two were on the same page on turning electricity into sound using horn drivers.
Ever decide to unload one pair of those Dixielanders, Dou, let me know. :yes:
Photos: Of one of my Mark V as it came from the factory
MarkV frontal -- High/Mid L-pads are above the blue tags
MarkV inside -- Stout stamped woofer basket, mids are enclosed in sealed box, sizeable horn
MarkV crossover -- large paper-wrapped choke (w/39); and another above it, flat on top of mid's box; red cap, another white one is on top of mid's box at right, but obscured by damping material
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Nick_the_'Nole
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I've been searching for any info as well, but haven't come across anything. I've got one that has an 8" woofer and a 3" cone tweeter instead of a horn. (And just one, unfortunately, came from a mono system, but I'm using it in a 3-channel setup.) The date code on the tweeter is showing 1963, so best I can find is that it's pretty early in their consumer line of speakers. Sounds really amazing, though, so even if I can't come up with any info on it, I'm still happy, especially since it was free. 
