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Mystery speakers...help!

jazzmans said:
Which was also a key component of most speakers in the late nineties, early aughts. NHT, Boston, Infinity, Paradigm, Definitive, etc etc etc.
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Yes indeed. It was a response to the ever increasing rear-projector TV size vs. speaker footprint.
 
After many days (hours!) of listening to these speakers using various media (analog, digital, phono, etc) and getting opinions from customers (I have a vintage audio business) the general consensus is: "Wow! Those speakers sound great! What are they?" So, after pulling all the drivers and scanning the interior of the well-made, well-braced cabinets...nada. Zip. No clue. I gave up trying to find out the who, what, where, when and why. I just dig 'em. Oh, and if these are white van speakers then I'd have to say they are the best damn white van speakers ever made.
 
and...yes there were inked numbers/letters on the drivers...heavy magnets on the 8" oval woofers on each side...did an exhaustive search online to match up the drivers but again, there were WAY too many possibilities. They are so heavy I had to mount them on bases with casters so I could move them around in the shop.
 
Putterman said:
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https://www.audiophile.org/archive/loudspeaker/advertisement/12537/jamo-77-floorstanding-speakers/

The Jamo guess looks like a good one. I wouldn't guarantee these are the same but at the very least they're from the same line.
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very, very close...almost identical except for...well...dunno
 
frommerstop said:
I never claimed those brands didn't ID their speakers, only that they didn't do it in a very flashy, or durable way. If, for example, you do a google image search for Spica TC-50s, you'll see a good example of a brand that used only a cheap foil sticker on the back for identification. I can attest to how easy it is to loose those, as one of mine was lost before I traded the speakers away. Also, the aforementioned early Fried speakers only had a simple label on the back... only later did they start to use terminal plates with some info on them, and even those usually didn't say "Fried", but only the model - such as "R", or "Q", etc.
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I've had several pairs of Polks that had lost their ridiculously cheap badges.
 
swechsler said:
Albievan, I'm afraid you're going to have to pull the drivers.

Anyone: Does Jamo generally make their own or do they purchase from other manufacturers?
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As I mentioned below (above?) I did pull all the drivers and discovered various number/letter combinations on them but after a long search (for which I do not have time!) I gave up...too many possibilities. Besides, some of the numbers/letters were unreadable.
 
biscuithead said:
White Van... white Van... White van... I bought ALL of my "white van" speakers off of vehicles that were neither white, nor vans! I wish we could come up with another descriptive way to refer to the not-bought-from-the -store/shipping-container-scam speakers.... :D

They look better than WV speakers to me... so hopefully the OP only paid WV price...
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$42 at an auction
 
They look very much like something I saw in a second hand shop here recently, which may or may not have been Canton's. I know they sounded good and they weren't cheap.
 
Rather than Googling all those numbers, there is a sticky thread in Tubes about EIA codes that you can use to determine who made the drivers. It's actually rather simple. It doesn't always tell you who make the speaker, but sometimes it can be quite helpful.
 
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