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Are my Toshiba's re-labeled Onkyo's?
Did Onkyo ever label any of there speakers as Toshiba or visa versa?
After a long time searching for information on my Toshiba ss-51 speakers with very few results, I am now nearly convinced that my Toshiba ss-51 speakers are actually re-labeled Onkyo e-154a, Although I still need some conformation of this.
After getting a reply email back from a helpful person at Toshiba in Japan in 2001 saying That the only information they could find was on a piece of microfiche film dated 1972, which they had printed out and were posting me via "snail mail".
The information contained on the microfiche film was detailed service data for the ss-51 and ss-41. A copy can be found here http://www.jameswatt.org/ss51.html
Recently I was pointed to http://www.audio-heritage.jp which is a great resource on vintage speakers, I could not find anything there on any Toshiba speakers at all, but when I was looking through there old Onkyo range of speakers, I found a few models that had the same form factor as my Toshiba's.
Then I found a set that had an image with a cross section showing the insides of the speaker (maybe the same as ss-41) http://www.audio-heritage.jp/ONKYO/speaker/e-83amkiii.html Because of the uncanny similarity, I started looking into these Onkyo speakers even more.
After I translated the page in google and converted mm,cm, to inches and kg to lbs, I found that the Onkyo e-154a, produced in 1968 had exactly the same dimensions and statistics as the Toshiba ss-51. http://www.jameswatt.org/ss51/statsjoined.jpg
To much similarity to be dismissed?
I have also found that the speaker connectors on the back of a few Onkyo speakers are nearly identical to the Toshiba's
Unfortunately there is very little information I can find on the net about the e-154a, I will send an email to Onkyo and Toshiba to see if they can confirm my suspicions, but any additional information anyone can supply me will be great.
TIA
Did Onkyo ever label any of there speakers as Toshiba or visa versa?
After a long time searching for information on my Toshiba ss-51 speakers with very few results, I am now nearly convinced that my Toshiba ss-51 speakers are actually re-labeled Onkyo e-154a, Although I still need some conformation of this.
After getting a reply email back from a helpful person at Toshiba in Japan in 2001 saying That the only information they could find was on a piece of microfiche film dated 1972, which they had printed out and were posting me via "snail mail".
The information contained on the microfiche film was detailed service data for the ss-51 and ss-41. A copy can be found here http://www.jameswatt.org/ss51.html
Recently I was pointed to http://www.audio-heritage.jp which is a great resource on vintage speakers, I could not find anything there on any Toshiba speakers at all, but when I was looking through there old Onkyo range of speakers, I found a few models that had the same form factor as my Toshiba's.
Then I found a set that had an image with a cross section showing the insides of the speaker (maybe the same as ss-41) http://www.audio-heritage.jp/ONKYO/speaker/e-83amkiii.html Because of the uncanny similarity, I started looking into these Onkyo speakers even more.
After I translated the page in google and converted mm,cm, to inches and kg to lbs, I found that the Onkyo e-154a, produced in 1968 had exactly the same dimensions and statistics as the Toshiba ss-51. http://www.jameswatt.org/ss51/statsjoined.jpg
To much similarity to be dismissed?
I have also found that the speaker connectors on the back of a few Onkyo speakers are nearly identical to the Toshiba's
Unfortunately there is very little information I can find on the net about the e-154a, I will send an email to Onkyo and Toshiba to see if they can confirm my suspicions, but any additional information anyone can supply me will be great.
TIA
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, I was very happy to see very similar looking connectors on some onkyo models. Below are the ones on my Toshiba's 
