Vintage speaker ID

[kb12]

Found these at Goodwill. Can anyone ID them? They are very heavy and have what appear to be woofers that are not original. Thanks!

 

[nolasally]

homebrew junk...Looks to have a cts mid...I wouldnt pay more than 20.00 for them if I needed speakers!!!

 

[Lavane]

homebrew junk...Looks to have a cts mid...I wouldnt pay more than 20.00 for them if I needed speakers!!!

A pair of outside deck party speakers.

 

[Catmanboo]

Found these at Goodwill. Can anyone ID them? They are very heavy and have what appear to be woofers that are not original. Thanks!

Mids & tweeters not original either, going by how they're RTV sealed. Look like decent parts units if nothing else ( given that they're not toasted). Need a backside pic or 2 to further the i.d., along with grill pics. How much $$?

 

[bowtie427ss]

Tweeters look like what was used in Applied Physics Labs speakers.

 

[kb12]

Thanks for the replies. They were $60 for the pair. Decided not to take a chance on them.

 

[nolasally]

not even worth it at half that price!!

 

[Catmanboo]

not even worth it at half that price!!

I'll pass judgment based on 1 partial pic. Back shot would've helped, but yep-$60, nyet! Back in the day, that set would've been $10-20 tops in any GW. They have gotten a bit greedy the last few years- on about everything. Hell, I snagged a perfectly fine set of C-V VS-120's in our local mega-thrift a few years back for $20, listening to them daily. I think that was an accident...probably never see that kind of score again.

 

[stickman]

Sylvania made speakers using similar drivers (well except for the replacement woofers) but the cabinets were not that well made. The tweeters of that type were also used by Jensen and Speakerlab among others and larger diameter versions were used by Rectilinear in the Models 5 and 7. They are a fine sounding tweeter and that midrange driver could be a quality unit as well from Rola, Jensen, CTS or a similar manufacturer. Based upon the cabinets, and if the tweeters aren't blown, I probably would have paid the $ 60 to use them for frankenspeaker projects as the cabinets look very sturdy and well made.