Vintage Rogers W6 Speakers

aloutah
aloutah Posts: 241
edited April 2012 in Vintage Speakers
Anyone have any info on Rogers W6 speakers? HUGE cabinets, 4 12" drivers, one smaller mid, and a bullet tweeter?
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  • transmaster
    transmaster Posts: 428
    edited April 2012
    I thought the name Rogers was familiar to me, and I was right Rogers manufactures Church (pipe) Organs, and smaller "electric" organs, What I didn't know is they also make a line of very interesting Amp's and speakers. Your W6 could be the speaker for one of their smaller electric organs.

    http://www.rodgersinstruments.com/rodgersAudio

    A note to Rogers will get you the info you need
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  • civilian
    civilian Posts: 357
    edited April 2012
    There was also a local (to me) company called Rogers Sound Lab that made a lot of speakers. I don't see that model on their site and their logo was RSL. But you can check it out here.
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  • transmaster
    transmaster Posts: 428
    edited April 2012
    From the description (can we have a photo?) they are set of Rogers W6-100 speakers which are part of Rogers' electronic theater, and church organs. They called them Tone Cases. They are fairly rare and if aloutah doesn't want to use them I suspect they would sell for a very good price. If they are indeed the Rogers Tone Cases they can handle an awesome amount of power.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,804
    edited April 2012
    The organ company is called Rodgers - as the URL posted earlier correctly has it. With a "d"
    There is (or at least was) a fine British loudspeaker manufacturer called Rogers (sans the "d") - they, among other manufacturers in the UK, famously made nearfield monitors to the BBC LS-3/5A specification. The described speakers don't sound like one of their projects.

    I'm thinking "Rodgers"...
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  • aloutah
    aloutah Posts: 241
    edited April 2012
    They were the Rodgers W6. About chest high, HUGE cabinets. Used a 075 JBL bullet tweeter, alnico drivers. I actually let a friend pick them up. They are just too big for my house. I could have parted them out and probably made a pretty penny, but I think my friend will get good use of them.
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  • transmaster
    transmaster Posts: 428
    edited April 2012
    I was thinking these W6's are the sort of speaker you build a house, theater, or church around. But for the average mancave they just would not work before you fired them up you would have make sure your seat belts were buckled.

    I''ll look up Rogers, I like the english sound and I am a big fan of old Warfedale speakers,
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