Sony SS-U311s??

[kortex]

Are these quality vintage sony speakers or crap? I saw a pair recently online and they look rather nice. I can't find much about them at all.

 

[89grand]

If they share any design characteristics with my Sony SS-U420's, and they look like they do, they aren't very good. The cabinets are light, with no bracing of any kind or any sort of polyfill. A knock test tells the story of how bad the cabinets are. That 4" mid/tweeter is pretty much garbage as well. With that said, mine aren't the worst sounding speakers on earth, but I would pay very little if anything for a set of them.

The SS-U311 looks to have a slightly better woofer and tweeter, but the crappy cabinet looks a lot alike.

 

[superdog]

I had some SS- U type Sony speakers more than likely from a rack system and if they were they were very unremarkable.Typical rack type.

 

[kortex]

Are there any good vintage Sony speakers? I thought I had heard of a few.

 

[markw300d]

Are there any good vintage Sony speakers?

The SS-Mx series was excellent!

 

[Nikko75]

I own the SS-M7B ES, a friend has the SS-M9.
The SS-U311 however looks like a typical Bob's Bargains off-the-shelf speaker given the SS namesake, an identity crisis.

 

[kortex]

Thanks guys I will stay clear.