Norman labs 10

erniejade
erniejade Posts: 6,321
edited January 2011 in Vintage Speakers
I have a chance to pick up a set of normal labs 10 Taking a look around on the web, it seems to get some good reviews. The speaker terminal look really cheap though for a speaker that was supposedly decent.

For the price I figure i would try them out. Anyone ever had a set? or heard one? I guess the top of the line was the model 9. The 10 has 2 10" woofers and i am not sure but looks to be 2 phillips tweeters.
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited December 2010
    model10.jpg

    model10back.jpg

    I guess pictures would help.

    Looking around there was 2 different ones the 10 and 10A the a had a poly woofer.

    The totl model 9 speaker terminals were not so hot either!
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  • indyhawg
    indyhawg Posts: 1,642
    edited January 2011
    Congrats on the find. I have been looking to score a set of Monitor 10s or 9s for quite a while.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited January 2011
    Congrats! Cool to try out vintage gear!
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2011
    erniejade wrote: »
    The speaker terminal look really cheap though for a speaker that was supposedly decent.
    Cheap? **** bells those were state of the art in the early 70's... Secure pinching of up to 18 ga wire...

    Look forward to your impressions. Enjoy...
    More later,
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited January 2011
    yeah, that time period was not known for the best terminals.

    While I love my AR9's (circa 1979 or so), the binding posts suck!
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