Coral BX-40 speakers?

[yrly]

I just picked up a rather nice looking pair of these Coral BX-40s from the thrift for $9.98. Heck I would have bought them on cosmetics alone, they look awesome! Made by Fukuyo Sound of Japan. Uses a 10 inch driver, some sort of rather elaborate looking tweeter, ported in a wood box, stand about 2 feet tall. Metallic colored grill with metallic boarders. Says Coral on a little badge near the top in that font they call "Magneto" on Microsoft word. Bottom says "Multi-Way Speaker System". Polish them up and they will look almost new. They have to be pretty darn old. I hooked them up and have been listening for about a half an hour, they seem to sound pretty nice. Anyone know anything about these?

 

[Tillerman]

Coral

Here is one Coral fan:
http://www.eastmarinedrive.com/audio/2003/coral.html

Scott

 

[yrly]

Same logo but these have to be way older than anything on there. Alnico mangets on both the tweeters and woofers. 10 inch woofer has a model thats something like 10F something, looks pretty much like a standard woofer, cone is kinda heavy duty, dust cap has a vent of some sort. Coral logo is printed on the woofer's magnet. Tweeter is quite a deep device, if you look at the front (grills don't come off so I peeked with a flashlight) it appears to be rather like a horn design of some sort, horn loaded perhaps. Has an Alnico magnet as well, I don't recall the model # of the part when I opened it but it did say its power handling is 25 watts on the tweeter. Has "Calrad" tweeter control pots on the rears of the speakers, these seem to be rather decent quality feeling detented type. Seem to sound quite good, don't require much power which is probably why people seem to like them for tube amps. Actually I am using them with a tube amp for the present while I experiment around. Not bad for $10 regardless.