CL: Part of SRT System - Great Falls

skrol

These are rough but may be good for parts.
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/ele/4518952060.html

Not affiliated.

Gatecrasher

Wow! Talk about rode hard and put away wet!

Those have to be the most-abused SRTs I've ever seen.

What a shame.

Still the one plastic base and the drivers are worth something.

ken brydson

The drivers if functional are worth 2-3 times the asking price...

chefkungfu

What in the world happened to these?????? What a shame!

chefkungfu

Gatecrasher..... Wanna go halves on it for parts????????????? JK!

Gatecrasher

I wouldn't mind having the plastic base to the sub. I don't know about the drivers though. They look like they may have been exposed to the elements for quite a while. Just look at the cabinets!!

F1nut

Criminal.

chefkungfu

^^^Criminal indeed!

chefkungfu

Gatecrasher, if you want to take a chance on the parts... let me know. It's tempting, but like you said, it looks like they were used for outdoor use:(
Send me an email.

chefkungfu

Don't mean to go off topic, but F1, are you going to watch the Austria GP this weekend? Friday practice starts in a couple of hrs!
Also, the FIA is going to re-investigate Massa's crash at Canada last race. That should be interesting!

F1nut

are you going to watch the Austria GP this weekend?

Of course!

ALSATIAN in USA

I'am going to see the F1 race in 3month (TEXAS)..With my wife

dpowell

So sad and to see the dimensional array direct wired to the stereo array just goes to show you how some people just have no clue about what they have.

villian

Anyone here pick these up?

deronb1

I saw a nice set for sale in Utah (ebay)

F1nut

DSkip wrote: »

At TMS? If so, I live 30 minutes away.

Oh hell NO! F1 does not race ovals. The race is at COTA.

rotwood

Hi, I just joined this club today. I hope I won't make too much trouble for myself with my first post here. I think I got this most-abused SRTs. To be honest, I knew almost nothing about audio stuff till a couple months ago. Then I start to read about antique speakers. So I got my first set Sony, then a pair of Boston Acoustics tower speakers from Craigslist. Last month, I saw the picture of this abused SRTs on Craigslist. After reading posts on www.audiokarma.org on the SRTs for a couple days, I called the seller to set up a visit. Yes, it was/is in such bad shape and I think you all saw the pictures on CL. Also it only have two mains, two sub drivers and one sub cabinet without amps and crossover. But it still sounds very good with the seller's old audio receiver. So I took them home for a really cheap price. I hooked two mains up and they sounds great. Then I put both sub drivers back to the cabinet and closed the cabinet with a piece of plywood. Since both no amps and crossover are missing, I hooked both sub drivers to a old receiver and then hooked the old receiver to the Sub pre-out of my main receiver. So I hooked all of them up and it sounds very good too me. As I mentioned before, I am really new to audio stuff. Please excuse me for any inappropriate things I have done so far. I will be very happy to learn from all of you.

This is a very long post now. I will stop here and try to post pictures here if I can.

Thanks for your time and advice in advance.

Gatecrasher wrote: »

Wow! Talk about rode hard and put away wet!

Those have to be the most-abused SRTs I've ever seen.

What a shame.

Still the one plastic base and the drivers are worth something.

ken brydson

Definitely a project but good luck and welcome to CP. Lots of helpful folks here to help you with the restore...

Dennis Gardner

Congrats on your find. Not too many of those models made, so parts are tough to get but you can have fun with what you do have.

rotwood

Thanks for your warm welcome. I know it will be a real project for a newbie like me, so I will try to take time to learn as much as possible before I start something that can't be redone. I read another post about the wiring problem of this system. As you can see from the pictures from my last post, I didn't change the wiring at all. Two mains are hooked up to a Sony str_dn840. All drives works so far. Can anyone explain the problem with the wiring? I really apprecia it .
Also, I am thinking about making speaker grills to protect those drivers. Any suggestions on parts from parts express ?
Thanks a lot,

Dennis Gardner

The wiring complaints about the SRT in general is that it was designed to be used as a system with a central controller that required speaker wiring both into and out of the controller from your receiver or amplifiers that basically doubled the number of speaker cables needed to run it properly. Using quality (read as expensive) speaker cables was also limited by the type of connectors chosen on the rear of the controller. Screw on binding posts required tools to change/reroute cabling and larger gauge cables are difficult to use with narrow binding post screws. Most receivers and amps by this time had changed to 5 way posts that allow quicker banana type usage, but not the SRT system. See the pic of the back of the controller in the auction posted to understand a little better. Lots of connections!

Basically, you just got part of 2 channels of a complete 5 channel mega system with controller and remote.


There is a current auction that has an SRT listed that you might want to compare to. http://www.ebay.com/itm/151352944199?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2661&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

rotwood

Dennis, thanks, now I think I learned a little bit more, but got more questions. I checked the SRT system on eBay. The central control only have connectors for 2 fronts, 1center, and 2 subs. Where to connect the 2 surrounds? Anyway, I probably won't be able to find a central control any time soon. So should I change the wiring by connecting the SDA connectors on the front speakers to another amplifiers or other connectors on my Sony receiver? I do have another Sony AV receiver and an old Sansui receiver that I can use. But none of them has regular pre-out and only one sub pre-out on my current Sony av receiver is available. As I mentioned, I hooked up both fronts directly to my sony receiver as showing on those pictures. It works now, but I know nothing about SDA and don't want to make a fool of myself to kill what I have got so far. Sorry for asking questions one after another. I am a little bit of carrying away with this now. Happy weekend to everyone! Thanks,

Dennis Gardner

The control unit is required to get full use of the system as it creates the SDA signal and sends it to the SDA speakers within each cabinet and nothing else can do that. I'm not sure whether tying the SDA to stereo speakers will work. I will defer to those that own the system and are more familiar with the connections. Without the controller, you can use the speakers as a normal sub/main setup and a CS350 center is a good match for the mains as it uses the same tweeter and woofers that the surrounds of the SRT use. Any RT or RT/FX speaker would match for surrounds too. The subs can be hooked together using a Y cable from your receiver to send the signal to each sub.

There are a few control units that occasionally come up for sale around, but they are rare. I would save some $$$ aside to be able to get one when you find it.

rotwood

Thanks, I will wait for a control unit showing up from now on. At the mean time, I will untie the SDA connectors from stereo connectors just in case some bad things happy to those SDA speakers.
The cabinets are so beat up with so many edges and corners separated. I don't know if I can just glue them back with help from carpentry clamps, or I have to replace those curled wood panels. I really got myself a project to do.
Thanks again,

rotwood

Anyone have experience to use something like Loctite Power Grab construction adhesive and wood clamps to get the cabinet panels back together? Thanks,

rotwood wrote: »

Thanks, I will wait for a control unit showing up from now on. At the mean time, I will untie the SDA connectors from stereo connectors just in case some bad things happy to those SDA speakers.
The cabinets are so beat up with so many edges and corners separated. I don't know if I can just glue them back with help from carpentry clamps, or I have to replace those curled wood panels. I really got myself a project to do.
Thanks again,

Gatecrasher

The SRT control box only controls the bass and the SDA function to the right and left subs and satellites. The center speaker is just a straight through connection so you really don't even need to connect the center to the controller if you don't want to. The controller doesn't do anything for it.

Two different rear surround speakers were available for the SRT system. An inexpensive pair that were not SDA and a more expensive pair with the SDA arrays. If you used the rear SDA surrounds, you needed a second control box for them.

The auction listed above has what appear to be a decent set that is missing 9 of the feet but other than that look good. I would be tempted to try and find something like that and use some of the parts from your beater set to make one nice set before I'd dump too much into the ones you have now.

You'd have a bunch of spare drivers too or could sell-off some of the stuff you didn't use to recoup some of the cost.

F1nut

rotwood wrote: »

Anyone have experience to use something like Loctite Power Grab construction adhesive and wood clamps to get the cabinet panels back together? Thanks,

Those cabinets have extensive water damage and when MDF or particle board gets wet it swells. There's nothing you can do to fix it.

Toolfan66

I would gut them, keep or sell all the good parts, that project could take years, many years, not worth it IMO..

rotwood

Thanks for all your great advices! Since it doesn't worth to repair any more, I won't need to worry too much about it. That's actually a good news to me. I will try to take all drivers out later when I get some time. It still sounds fine to me now. The old beat up look doesn't bother me too much. So glad to hear from you. Thanks,

nooshinjohn

rotwood wrote: »

Anyone have experience to use something like Loctite Power Grab construction adhesive and wood clamps to get the cabinet panels back together? Thanks,

My advice is to try and jump on the set for sale on Ebay rather than fixing these. The ones you have will need a very expensive miracle to become more than just parts IMHO. With the Ebay set, at least you will be golden for a long time on spare parts.

rotwood

Too far for me to pick it up even if the price is right. 2000 miles one way to go there. I will try to enjoy it where it still working for me now. If I get some time later, I will try to think about what to do next. Thanks for the advice,