Wharfedale Melton, any good?

[laika-]

Hi, I'm trying to find vintage speakers. Here in Finland it's hard to find good vintage stuff with reasonable price tag. Anyway now I'm thinking that should I buy Wharfedale Melton speakers? They are in a pretty good shape. Hard to find information about them from the web. Any experience? I need advice on this.

Here you can see them:

http://www.classicaudio.fi/kuvat/1208/101208Wha1.JPG

http://www.classicaudio.fi/kuvat/1208/101208Wha2.JPG

with best regards, laika-

 

[MunkeyQ]

I have a pair of Melton II's, which are a bit different to yours. Instead of the purple donut tweeter, mine have a 1.5" Mylar film Alnico unit, and a slightly different woofer. I think yours may be alnico. The baskets are all cast aluminum.

IMO, they're not that great - I gave mine to my dad to use in his computer room. Mating that 12" woofer with that tweeter means a bit of a hole in the midrange, and whilst the bass is well controlled, it doesn't go that low. For vocals though, they seem to do rather well.

 

[Chazb11]

If they're cheap enough I'd grab them simply because the cabinets are beautiful! It's easier to swap out the drivers than to build a nice cabinet like that, and they may sound pretty good as is.

 

[titanstats]

They are OK, but certainly nothing special. The mylar tweeters are prone to failing, if they haven't already, and as Munkey said, there's a bit of a hole in the middle. The cabs are pretty, like chaz said, but you can probably do lots better, unless you want to gut them and go the DIY route.