Speaker ID Please!

[bevador]

Can anyone help ID this speaker? I think maybe an EV but the concentric circles do not fit anything I can find from EV. Jensen?? Stevens?? I am at a loss. These came from an old amusement park. They were part of the sound system of an indoor ride in the eighties.. I cannot get the cabinets open unless I destroy them. They are nailed shut. Sorry about the pic quality.. I only have my phone tonight.. Thanks!!

 

[zandru]

Can anyone help ID this speaker? I think maybe an EV

Greetings bevador,

It's not actually a speaker, It's an intergalactic space traveling vehicle from the planet Froonobulax in the galaxy NG3974.

 

[bevador]

Zandru I though it might be a mud shark or a mammy nun..

 

[bowtie427ss]

Looks University-ish, but difficult to be sure from that pic.

 

[Gang-Twanger]

Looks University-ish, but difficult to be sure from that pic.

Yeah, University had the red surrounds on their old full-rangers (Really-nice full-rangers by the way... Damn-nice). EV had them too. I know a few other speaker-makers used them back in those days, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment (I'll look at some pictures and see what I can dig up... It looks like a University, but I can't say for sure if the shape of the horn thingy is right or not... The late '50's University had a slightly-different shape, but
I suppose it could always be a later one I don't recognize).

 

[mhardy6647]

If he/she hasn't already, the OP may wish to peruse:
www.hifilit.com
and/or mid-1950s up to very early-1960s catalog scans at www.radioshackcatalogs.com

Looks University-ish, but difficult to be sure from that pic.

I agree that the woofer looks University-ish - I don't recognize the horn, though.

Good old Telex does still have legacy EV and University product docs on their website - but it's much harder to actually find things then it used to be (thus "progress" as manifested in the Internet age).

 

[parvo]

Looks like some of the earlier Rhenkus-Heinz drivers. See if you could find a RH
inscribed, stamped or indited somewhere on the driver surfaces.

 

[bevador]

Thanks for the leads gentlemen/ladies. I have looked and looked to no avail. I will say they sound great! The crux in ID of these speaks is the concentric circles that are not even in measurement to the center of the cone. I can not find any image that looks like this. Hmmm?

 

[zandru]

The crux in ID of these speaks is the concentric
circles that are not even in measurement to the center of the cone.
I can not find any image that looks like this. Hmmm?

I think that Your speakers might be a Vintage or a forerunner version of these
newer Jensen Coaxial rectangular horn "Sigma series" speaker system.

Please remember Bevador,
Watch out where the Huskies go; and don't you eat that yellow snow!

 

[eiraved]

It's a University Sound 315-C 15" Super Diffaxial.

 

[eiraved]

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