HH Scott Speakers?

[relaximus]

Is anyone familiar with these? H.H. Scott model S-41. 10 1/2"W x 19"H x 10"D

Thanks!
Dave

 

[kaliph11]

I've got a pair of S-19 that I could find nothing on - until one day I found them in the Realistic catalogue of 1969 as part of a set with a Realistic record changer and receiver.

Really nice sound in a small package. They are in my kitchen hooked up to a Sont all-transistor table radio that puts out 50 watts.

 

[Nat]

If those are 'controlled impedance' speakers, which Scotts usually were, they are easier to drive than a lot of the other speakers out there, which can mean they sound better than seemingly similar models from other manufacturers. Speakers are complex loads, and the rated impedance is an average, and some speakers can have punishingly low impedance at specific frequencies, which can make some amps misbehave and sound bad, even if they don't go into protection, etc.

 

[asoundhound]

if the grills come off, we'd love to see the drivers!

 

[mikey99]

The cutout and terminals look a lot like AR-4x speakers
I was looking at awhile back. I wonder if Scott may have
used rebranded speakers and put their name plate on there.

 

[asoundhound]

i've purchased some drivers from scott speakers. i've got a really nice sounding pair of alnico magnet 12" woofers that came from an unknown model. i don't know who made them. a pair of mids were made by rola and another pair of woofers from s-2's were made by oxford.

 

[pilotputz]

I had a pair of those once. I found them on the sidewalk and took them home and gave them a listen. They are a simple two way speaker with an 8 inch woofer and a cheapy paper coned tweet.

Don't get me wrong; it's not a bad speaker at all. It's simply nothing special either.

H.H. Scott is famous for their very cool, distinctly gold integrated amps but not their speakers: There's a reason for that.

Similar great vintage companies that built cool amps and lousy speakers:
Fisher
Pilot

In my opinion...

 

[steve73008]

S-15's

if the grills come off, we'd love to see the drivers!

I picked up a pair of S-15's at a salvage store a few weeks back and I love them. They are in the same league with my KLH model 6's. The grills come off of mine but it's tricky to do. I have to slide them to one side within the play in the frame and then up. Once i Get a corner free I carefully flex the grill plate and pop it out. Mine were stamped "Dec 7 1971" on the back of one of the grills.

I installed them in my bedroom last night on a Sansui 7070. It's a darned nice bedroom stereo!

 

[Vintage1987]

I got some Scott speakers from 1987 Maufactured December 7th 1987 they are four way built in circuit breakers 2 tweeters. Six speakers in each cabinet 5-150 watts. Tell me what you think about them.

 

[barredowl]

Looks like they were running their AR copying machine.

 

[mhardy6647]

They are most likely similar to this S-15 (3-way with CTS drivers; 10" woofer)... although later HH Scott speakers had Philips dome tweeters.

 

[caddisgeek]

I got some Scott speakers from 1987 Maufactured December 7th 1987 they are four way built in circuit breakers 2 tweeters. Six speakers in each cabinet 5-150 watts. Tell me what you think about them.

welcome back 80's lover

 

[jgmacv]

I also own a pair of S-15s (attached is a photo, they are on top of my Klipsch Heresys), and a youtube video of mine shows them..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EMN70zZIg0

Love the HH Scotts!

 

[mr_wetland]

I also have a pair of S-15's, a $15 thrift store find, and I'm using them in my office system now. They are very nice sounding speakers. They are not top shelf, totl, but they are very nice sounding speakers.

 

[mhardy6647]

Yes, yes they are. Surprisingly so (as I've said, like, 50 times before)

 

[Whaleman]

Ditto here on the Scott S-15, sound quite nice for what you would pay. Mine are keepers, heavy box construction, nice grill mechanism.

 

[Pistol253]

Anyone know what model number these are? Cant find a model number. Scott 6-8ohms

 

[tarior]

Those look like 188T. The nameplate is behind the grille.

 

[girlcave]

I saw a request in the thread to see the drivers. I just got a pair in to sell so I thought I would upload the pics.

 

[Nat]

I wonder if that Philips tweeter might be a replacement - most Scotts of this era used cone tweeters, and I think I might see in the upper right signs that there once was a screw hole - there appears to be a little ridge like those made by screws peaking out from behind the foam gasket.
I could be mistaken, since I seem to remember the Scott Pro series - I had the 70s - used the Philips dome. And mistaken or not, the dome might be considered by many listeners to be an improvement.