15" driver mystery cabinets

[pmsummer]

24x24x20"

 

[RaymondLeggs]

I saw a pair of SD speakers like that..

 

[Urizen]

I saw a pair of SD speakers like that..

:scratch2:

Where?

 

[pmsummer]

S D ?

 

[bowtie427ss]

Looks like something that would have housed a D130.:yes:

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

S D ?

Sound Design! :lmao:

 

[pmsummer]

The guy wants $40 for 'em. I bought (am buying) a console/cabinet from him with matching wood and legs. Very clearly Danish Mod console, but he said the speakers had the legs added to match the console. He doesn't know any more.

 

[Tom Brennan]

Those look like they'd be nice with an Altec Duplexe, 604 or 605.

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Actually they aren't far off from some early 60's cabs that my friend's Dad had 604's in. His appeared to be a bit taller though with a block over a 4" round hole for a HF driver...but had the same type bottom vent.

 

[Zilch]

Those'd be right-now subwoofs with some bracing and proper porting.

 

[WhiteSE]

i have a pair just like em at home with an adapter for 12" drivers....I have the 15" audax in em.

 

[pmsummer]

Here's the matching console I'm getting from the seller...

 

[WhiteSE]

oh mine dont have such nice 4 legged bases,,,

 

[himm37]

Looks like Barzilay to me.

 

[speakerlust]

Those'd be right-now subwoofs with some bracing and proper porting.

Any ideas as to proper drivers Zilch ???

 

[Zilch]

Any ideas as to proper drivers Zilch ???

The problem I'm having is the height.

Notwithstanding what may have originally been in there, it looks like centerline of the existing cutout is at ~24", too low for a coax, unless one listens with their knees. Seated in a chair, my listening height is 48". On the couch, it's somewhat lower, but I'd have to be on the floor and slouching to be on axis.

If I put a UHF driver up in the corner, i.e., D130 extended-range woofer and 075 or 077, I don't think it'd be high enough still, because those beam to 30° or less. I'd have to use a wider vertical dispersion horn, or some scheme to aim the HF driver upward toward the listening position, both requiring a reconfigured and/or tilted baffle. The vertically asymmetric MantaRay horn in Altec Model 14 (a clever idea, I think; wonder why it didn't catch on, ) might be an option, but I've never even seen one of those, let alone heard or measured what they do.

Those are large boxes, ~6 cuft., if my calculation is correct, and could do subwoofing with minimal effort, which is why I pop in with that option. What drivers were "proper" when those were made is largely irrelevant with respect to loading them for good sound according to current listening standards....

 

[RaymondLeggs]

S D ?

Soundesign they were the same size ane everything. i wish I could have gotten them but the next day they were gone...:tears:

They would have been nice on some matching stands.....

I wish I could have snatched them the sounded great! but I had too many other things to be preoccupied with in my hands.:sigh:

I hate when i pass up good things.... then i wouldnt be going through so many speakers....