Question about 1960’s Bozak Speakers

[transmaster]

I have run across a reference to Bozak using Wharfedale speakers, at least woofers, in 1960’s vintage Bozak speakers. Could this be true? Wharfedales did sell their speakers and crossovers along with instructions for building speaker cabinets. I am sure Rudy Bozak knew Gilbert Briggs of Wharfedale and the cast Zinc framed Wharfedale speakers are very good even to this day so they would have been an excellent choice for Rudy Bozak to use in his designs.

 

[drbiggles]

I’ve never heard or seen one, iam a fan of both. Both made their own drivers, doesn’t make sense.

Biggles

 

[transmaster]

I don’t know much about Bozak speakers but the reference did not make any sense to me ether.

 

[Retrovert]

The claim is utter nonsense.

Throughout nearly the entirety of its life Bozak solely used speakers manufactured in its facility. At the very end of the company's existence it switched to Audax tweeters. No evidence has ever been presented that any other driver was ever used by mainstream Bozak. When the company was broken up, into parts and the name, the name was sold and other modern drivers were used before Bozak ceased to exist. But never Wharfedale drivers.

Wharfedale drivers, furthermore, were designed for stiff and heavily damped. i.e. sand-filled, bass-reflex or ported cabinets. While such drivers could be used in infinite baffle, the loss of the backwave would greatly reduce the SPL.

The appearance of a Wharfedale drivers most likely arose because a Bozak cabinet was populated with Wharfedale drivers. The conclusion that this meant the factory installed such drivers is as ridiculous as the claim that because a Radio Shack driver appeared in some other speaker that the other manufacturer used Radio Shack drivers.

 

[Neck Beard]

I always thought one of the great things about Bozak was Rudy's ability to design drivers....let alone whole speaker systems. I mean didn't he design the humongous 24" driver that was used a the Chicago Worlds fair when he worked for Cinaudagraph....now at the Klipsch museum?