Mystery Speakers

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Wondering if anyone can help identify these speakers. Bought them with a 70's era stereo system with the intention of selling it all, but these speakers sound AWESOME, so they stay !!! They kick the s*** out of my Klipsch KG-4's ( not so much out of my JBL L200b's) . Its an 8" with a tweeter and have an external fuse . The speaker has a massive ceramic magnet. Remnants of a large piece of "identification" paper on the back of both. No other identification that I could find inside. But lots of insulation. Help anyone??? I'll buy ya a soda, if you're ever in Vegas !!!



 
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Are there any #'s on the woofer magnet?

If there are, then you can look-up who made the driver.

Also, check the inside walls of the cabs. Sometimes there will be a stamp of some sort, maybe with a date of production.

Sometimes, it doesn't matter who made them. As long as they sound good to you, that's all that matters.
 
Well Shut The Front Door !! The tweeter is a Phillips, but the 8" is a 1979 Fisher !!
Whoda Thunk. They still sound awesome. Hard for me to find a speaker that reproduces well with Black Sabbath to Bach !!!
 
Fisher had a speaker plant in Milroy/Lewistown, PA - near State College - through the mid '80s IIRC. From the late '60s until it closed, they did a lot of house brand speakers for different stores. With the Philips tweeter in yours, I'm guessing it was one of their better efforts; that's a really nice tweeter.

I seem to remember that their "1056" code went to someone else after Fisher...can't remember who...
 
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jancumps said:
Did you see the 'Made in Belgium'?
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Yeah, the Philips tweeter had me thinking it was a European speaker (like a European house-brand, maybe?).

By the way, been meaning to ask for a long time... WHAT is that GIF in your signature from? It's been driving me nuts (I always figured it was Greg and Marcia Brady doing some kind of "Singing With the Stars" sort of thing in the late '70's, or maybe a spoof on such a thing).
 
Gang-Twanger said:
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By the way, been meaning to ask for a long time... WHAT is that GIF in your signature from? It's been driving me nuts (I always figured it was Greg and Marcia Brady doing some kind of "Singing With the Stars" sort of thing in the late '70's, or maybe a spoof on such a thing).
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They are there to drive you nuts ;)

It's the belgian selection for the European Song Contest of 1973. Nicole and Hugo finished last, but became cult.

Here is the whole performance. Watching it will change your view on the world forever.
 
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Gang-Twanger said:
Yeah, the Philips tweeter had me thinking it was a European speaker (like a European house-brand, maybe?).
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Philips had (has?) a very large electronics plant in Belgium. That tweeter, and lots of other tweets and mids, were produced in the Belgian plant over quite a few years and sold to OEM speaker companies (I used to call them "assemblers" rather than manufacturers). I bet you could find over two dozen brands that used versions of Philips tweeters.

Many Marantz products came out of that plant in the '80s. While the US was getting Marantz BPC under Dynascan's ownership of the brand, the rest of the world was getting Marantz Japan designed product, either made in Japan or in Belgium. My ex-Philips CD80 - identical to the Marantz CD80 everywhere else - was made in Belgium.
 
I believe the guys Dad was in the military, so could be European. Had a mid-70's Onkyo TX2500 MKII Receiver & Dual CS 504 TT with it. Plus a bunch of cool 60's-70's records ( thats what I was mainly interested in......until I heard the speakers !!). You see a lot of overseas military bought HiFi here because of Nellis.
Thanks for all the help guys !!
I'm addicted to that GIF too !!! But I thought it was Sonny Bono & some chick ( other than Cher!)!!!!
 
Mystery no longer, they are Grafyx SP-8s, if its an 8" woofer, if its a 6" its an SP-6. Have a pair of SP-10s myself. Sound more than decent and built like brick poo houses.
 
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A quick bit about the company that I found in a quick search.

"The company was called August Systems. They produced a line of speakers called Grafyx, sp-6, sp-8 & sp-10. The main man was Greg Danner, now a professor at the U of Illinois."
 
Yowsa.

Anybody who is overly nostalgic for the 1970's needs to watch that video to be reminded how very, very bad a lot of that decade's pop culture actually was!
 
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