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Mystery Peerless Speakers

Tio Ratinhas

Tio Ratinhas

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Greetings, fellow AK'ers.

I've came across some speakers which have no visible ID, but the owner told me they were Peerless...!!!

They look like some B&O from the late 60's; Very smooth and detailed sound.

Can anyone help to identify these babies?955362006_2_1000x700_colunas-som-imagens (1).jpg 955362006_1_1000x700_colunas-som-lisboa.jpg
 
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Perhaps, but the owner told me it was a Peerless speaker, (Peerless brand).
Altough you're seem to be correct, looks like a PA cabinet.

Are they good for Hi-Fi usage? The sound is nice.
 
Pretty sure they weren't using 5 way binding posts in the 1960s. I'd say these date from the mid 70s. If PA columns they're designed for voice; you won't get much in the ways of highs and lows.
 
Yes, it would be a stretch to call them Hi-fi, not just because they are 3 large full range speakers. The large distances from speaker to speaker within the same cabinet will introduce a good amount of comb filtering, even if they were almost touching each other.
It might be possible to make a baffle stepping crossover, in which the top speaker is running full range, and the bottom two have their frequencies rolling off the treble at a certain frequency, which can be determined by measuring the distance between drivers, but it would take a lot of thinking. That would be for nearfield listening.

Now, if you were to listen to them from a greater distance as originally intended, the comb filtering would be reduced, and they would probably do quite well as vocal cabinets.
 
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