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This speaker is at my Uncle's house and from what I know, it was built by one of my other uncles in the 50s. I have no idea on the design or what the driver inside. The dark circle in the center of the grill is where the driver is located. It was originally driven by a Bogen DB20, but now has a Kenwood KR-3600 driving it. From what I can tell it sounded pretty good. I have not done any serious listening to it.
Though I would share this with you all.
Mike
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Thanks for the comments guys!
I will have to get in touch with my Uncle who built this.
Brian and Kal are correct. It's an Electro-Voice Aristocrat corner horn cabinet. I had one back in the late 50's when I was in college. Check the Hifilit web site for finishes and optional driver complement. I had a Wharfedale Super 12 FS/AL fullrange in mine driven by a modded Eico HF20 integrated amp with EL34's, and a Garrard RC88 with a Fairchild mono cartridge.
The front panel was cut for a 12", and with cutouts for a horn mid and horn tweeter with cover plates over the mid and tweeter opening. Typical drivers would be an EV-12TRXB, a 12TRX, or the EV 12" woofer with the midrange and tweeter horn drivers. Everything was modular. With 12TRXB's the bass only extended to 50-60 Hz or so. A college friend of mine used a pair of these with Stephens 120's with the concentric horn tweeter, and he got a good solid 35 Hz out of those.
If you look at the plans that Kal posted, the cabinet has a slot port feeding into a rear horn which uses the room walls in a corner as the final expansion. E-V claimed 35 Hz, but that required a low resonance driver.
Brings back memories.
Jerry
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"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Yes, that's exactly what I remembered. They had this nice progressive plan for upgrading your system as more $$ became available. Back then, if you didn't have the money, you didn't buy it. There were store charge cards (Sears, Penney's, Macy's, etc), but you were expected to pay them off at the end of the month. You could arrange for time payments on large items like cars and appliances, but nothing like today's minimum payments on your credit card.
In that credit environment, a modular speaker system made a lot of sense.
Jerry
My pair was powered with a set of Quad IIs driven by a Quad 22. This was my intro to stereo. My conclusion after all these decades is that I could have held pat with the setup and saved a lot of time, effort and money.
Brian,
Yes, but in addition to the time, effort, and money; you would have missed all the fun and frustrations along the way. Sometimes the journey is more fun than the destination.
Jerry
Looks like an EV Aristocrat in unfinished pine. Not uncommon back then.
See these:
It looks like a Klipsh Short Horn. is there an opening in the back?
Dave
I believe there is an opening in the back. I remember my Uncle, the one who built it, saying all the bass comes out the back.
NT
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