What speakers are these?

Drevlin

Saw a pair of these this morning on my walk to campus. Not sure what they are as there were no labels on them. The other looked worse than this one. Just wondering because I find the driver placement interesting. Thanks

Dennis Gardner

I will say Kabuki............http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kabuki%20Speaker

mhardy6647

While Kabuki is almost by definition correct for these :-) We may be able to be a tad more specific...

The configuration is similar to the decidedly meh Criterion VI sold by Lafayette. The drivers, however, are all wrong, so either someone's replaced them all (not bloody likely) or they're something else.



There was a popular semi-brand X speaker company in the 1970s called Synergistics. They also had some similary overpopulated front baffles... but overall I don't think these are Synergistics.

Other possibilities in the non-white-van/Kabuki category might include RtR and even (gasp) Rectilinear.

RtR example (taken from http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=161166)



Rectilinear example (taken from http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?191274-Repair-Old-Speakers[/url)



The drivers in the Rectilinear III above are actually some quite good ones (e.g., the Philips twincone being used as a midrange and the famous Peerless AlNiCo cone tweeters)

Drevlin

thanks, they looked interesting when I walked by and was just curious.

thesurfer

They look homemade to me??