62sunbeam
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https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/ele/d/1963-bozak-speakers-orig-barzilay/7102724327.html
Good luck and enjoy
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Eric
Good luck and enjoy
Stay Safe
Eric
Barzilay Bozaks in SoCal
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The experts have already spoken on these in another thread. Bozak has no business in Barzilay cabinets
I would take a listen to them and if they sound good I’d leave well enough alone.
if they sound like crap I’d part out drivers for more than the asking price giving oneself a nice set of free barzilay cabinets.
I would take a listen to them and if they sound good I’d leave well enough alone.
if they sound like crap I’d part out drivers for more than the asking price giving oneself a nice set of free barzilay cabinets.
62sunbeam
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@62sunbeam Look at this thread in D&S.. Bozak Speakers -Please identify these .
@Retrovert is the expert
@Retrovert is the expert
Retrovert
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Bozaks require (a) a sealed, not ported, box, (b) a cabinet lined with Tufflex or cotton batting, (c) and a hanging curtain made of Tufflex or cotton batting.
Without those the backpressure strangles the woofer. Infinite baffle is not acoustic suspension, and it requires the backwave be entirely lost. The Barzilays under discussion do not have the lining or curtain, and this requires retrofit. The port appears to be closed off. But the midrange is at the bottom of the cabinet, which makes for poor listening.
Better to, as @nolasally above wrote, and as I and others have elsewhere written, sell off the Bozak drivers and end up with free cabinets for a bass-reflex system.
I myself passed on a pair of beautiful Barzilays with Bozak drivers because of the work involved in properly retrofitting the cabinets. I don't have the space for a bass-reflex system or I would have put in some of the 1950s or 1960s JBL or Jensen drivers.
Without those the backpressure strangles the woofer. Infinite baffle is not acoustic suspension, and it requires the backwave be entirely lost. The Barzilays under discussion do not have the lining or curtain, and this requires retrofit. The port appears to be closed off. But the midrange is at the bottom of the cabinet, which makes for poor listening.
Better to, as @nolasally above wrote, and as I and others have elsewhere written, sell off the Bozak drivers and end up with free cabinets for a bass-reflex system.
I myself passed on a pair of beautiful Barzilays with Bozak drivers because of the work involved in properly retrofitting the cabinets. I don't have the space for a bass-reflex system or I would have put in some of the 1950s or 1960s JBL or Jensen drivers.
