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Rheem speakers

rodman101

rodman101

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I remeber only the badge as attached to a hot water heater. Anyone heard of any models? A friend had some fullrange 12 or 15 that impressed me decades ago, inside a homemade sealed box ~ 3cu ft. Granted I was just a kid but another family friend had Infinty Quantum 2 setup at that same time so I had experienced at least descent sound, IMHO?
 
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They also made portable organs and Kee Basses. I actually had one of their Kee Basses.


$680??? I bought and sold mine for $25.

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Holy cow. As a plumber I knew Rheem water heaters and furnaces, but never knew that diversified into electronics. Thanks for the tip off, now I need to do some research.
 
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Holy cow. As a plumber I knew Rheem water heaters and furnaces, but never knew that diversified into electronics. Thanks for the tip off, now I need to do some research.
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Rheem is/was a prominent name yet I doubt they decided to start manufacturing speakers so I'm guessing the contracted with an actual speaker manufacturing company to have speakers built with their brand name on them
 
@GChief, amen! That drives me crazy. You don't heat hot water, you heat cold water. Simply calling it a water heater will suffice. Just why such a silly and needless redundancy ever found such wide use mystifies me.
 
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@GChief, amen! That drives me crazy. You don't heat hot water, you heat cold water. Simply calling it a water heater will suffice. Just why such a silly and needless redundancy ever found such wide use mystifies me.
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There are plenty of them in Merican English.

The majority of my mom's family warshes the clothes and puts oral in the engine.
 
@GChief, ok, but those cited examples are more a matter of regional accent or historical mispronunciations. I've heard "warsh" used a few times, and "zink" for sink here in my hometown. There are a number of one occasionally hears yet from "old timers", but these are mostly going by the wayside.

@toddalin, well, I call it cold water relative to what I find comfortable to shower in. And the handles are marked "hot" and "cold", not "tepid". Funny you mention that Grundfos retrofit recirc system. I've put many of those in, but just attended a code class here recently in which it was revealed that the next edition of the plumbing code will no longer allow the use of those retrofit pump systems with crossover valves at the end of the line.

We will now have to run a dedicated waterline for recirculating purposes, and inject the return into the drain port on a tank type water heater (which was the conventional way of doing a record system anyway). Concerns over legionella (with the proliferation of non-copper water lines) are driving this.

Please excuse the OT diversion. I'd like to see more about Rheem organs.
 
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Please excuse the OT diversion. I'd like to see more about Rheem organs.
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I knew a guy in Las Vegas who had one in the late 60s.

I sold my Kee Bass to my music teacher, who also played on the strip. They were a "one-note" affair, deferring to the higher of the two, or more, notes if more than one note was pressed.

Back in the day in Vegas, there were many starving musicians, and stocked pawn shops, and things could be had cheaply.
 
@toddalin, monophonic bass synths were pretty typical of that era. In most cases, one didn't need more than one note, as they were trying to emulate a bass guitar.
 
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