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Hello! I need help Identifying these puppies - RBH?

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Mdanz

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I picked them up from a second hand shop a few years ago and just got around to looking into restoring them. Nice cabinets and good quality build. They just looked like they would sound good. 12" woofer, 5" mid and a Polydax dome tweeter. Beautiful and heavy walnut veneer cabs with four rounded corners. Dimensions: 25T x 14.5W x 11.25D.

One speaker grill is badged RBH but there's no model info. Closest I've found on the internets are RBH 1261's from the 1990's but its not a match and haven't found any close relatives model wise. Nothing else I've found in the RBH catalogues even looks like these lineage wise. Are they actually RBH's?

Hoping that someone out there can ID :)

Edit - I don't know how I spammed so many photos, sorry.
 

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One of those capacitors blew its guts out! You might want to pull and put an ohm meter on the driver connected to it to see if the driver is still good.They might be worth replacing the surrounds, and caps to find out how they sound.
 
Lavane said:
One of those capacitors blew its guts out! You might want to pull and put an ohm meter on the driver connected to it to see if the driver is still good.They might be worth replacing the surrounds, and caps to find out how they sound.
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Yeah I saw that cap. It was murdered by the volume knob.
 
Judging by the veneer work and hardwood corners, I'd say those were originally expensive speakers, and worth refoaming. They're only let down by the cheap speaker clips, but I won't be too hard on them for that, since in the 70s even JBL was using cheap clips.
 
Lavane said:
I'll take screw terminals over spring clips every time.
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I'll just point out that the AMT-1 series (at least through the AMT-1c) used spring clips rather than decent quality binding posts. I don't think anyone would accuse them of being cheap speakers.
 
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