BilboBaggins
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Last week, on my birthday, I found a really nice pair of vintage speakers. They have everything I like in a vintage speaker. Heavy real wood veneer cabinets, acoustic suspension, wood slat grills, and in very nice condition! Only problem was that one of them made a banging noice when I moved it. No matter, they followed me home! 
I snuck them inside and put them in the room my grandson sleeps in when he stays over. Later that night, I took the noisy one and measured the impedance and compared it to the non noisy one. The non noisy one measured 3.75 ohms and the other measured just under 1 ohm. No way I'm plugging these in yet!
Put it on the bench today, and removed the 10 inch woofer with no part number on it. Looks original, as do all the drivers. I can see the cross over inside and all three inductors were no longer glued to the back plate. Removed the black plate, and glued everything back the way it was. Now where do I put that loose wire?
Opened up the good one and right away saw where the wire went. Soldered it back, and then measured it. Almost the same as the other! Excellent! Now I can try it out. Hooked it up to my Akai AM-2400 and voila! Beautiful music!
These are Tamon TSE-250s. I can't find anything about them. They have a 10 inch woofer, a 6 inch midrange, a tweeter, and a super tweeter. The crossover has a p/n of 3030 crossed out and 250 put in there. The TSE-300 I did find info on is a 3 way, four speaker model with three cross slats instead of two in mine. Pretty similar otherwise.
I have some more testing to do, but I am quite happy! I love the way they look!
Here are some pictures!
I snuck them inside and put them in the room my grandson sleeps in when he stays over. Later that night, I took the noisy one and measured the impedance and compared it to the non noisy one. The non noisy one measured 3.75 ohms and the other measured just under 1 ohm. No way I'm plugging these in yet!
Put it on the bench today, and removed the 10 inch woofer with no part number on it. Looks original, as do all the drivers. I can see the cross over inside and all three inductors were no longer glued to the back plate. Removed the black plate, and glued everything back the way it was. Now where do I put that loose wire?
Opened up the good one and right away saw where the wire went. Soldered it back, and then measured it. Almost the same as the other! Excellent! Now I can try it out. Hooked it up to my Akai AM-2400 and voila! Beautiful music!
These are Tamon TSE-250s. I can't find anything about them. They have a 10 inch woofer, a 6 inch midrange, a tweeter, and a super tweeter. The crossover has a p/n of 3030 crossed out and 250 put in there. The TSE-300 I did find info on is a 3 way, four speaker model with three cross slats instead of two in mine. Pretty similar otherwise.
I have some more testing to do, but I am quite happy! I love the way they look!
Here are some pictures!
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