Anyone know this brand and model?

Dabutcher
Dabutcher Posts: 2,596
in Vintage Speakers
Single twelve inch full range speaker. Thanks. D
MIT Magnum MH-750, Monster HTS 5100MKII, Sony 77" Class - A80CJ Series - 4K UHD OLED,PS4, Def Tech 15” sub,LSIM 706c, Sunfire Signature Grand 425 x 4,Parasound hca 120, LSiM 702 x 4, Oppo 103D, SDA SRS 1.2, Pioneer Elite SC63 , Pioneer Elite BDP-05 “Why did you get married if you wanted big speakers?”
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,596
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    MIT Magnum MH-750, Monster HTS 5100MKII, Sony 77" Class - A80CJ Series - 4K UHD OLED,PS4, Def Tech 15” sub,LSIM 706c, Sunfire Signature Grand 425 x 4,Parasound hca 120, LSiM 702 x 4, Oppo 103D, SDA SRS 1.2, Pioneer Elite SC63 , Pioneer Elite BDP-05 “Why did you get married if you wanted big speakers?”
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    Has that vintage early 70's vibe. Is that an "m" on the badge?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    Short answer -- I'm clueless (y'all knew that already, though...)

    Longer answer -- any chance of seeing a photo of the basket of the driver(s)?
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,596
    I should have took a photo of basket too. They are at GW and I did not take them home. Gold color paint on basket with two inch wide magnet inside back of basket. I could not see the front without removing whole driver from the rear. Maybe I can get by there Saturday and make purchase$20.00. Seven day return policy. Thanks. D
    MIT Magnum MH-750, Monster HTS 5100MKII, Sony 77" Class - A80CJ Series - 4K UHD OLED,PS4, Def Tech 15” sub,LSIM 706c, Sunfire Signature Grand 425 x 4,Parasound hca 120, LSiM 702 x 4, Oppo 103D, SDA SRS 1.2, Pioneer Elite SC63 , Pioneer Elite BDP-05 “Why did you get married if you wanted big speakers?”
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,020
    yeah man, sounds like you don't have anything to lose. might be fun in a little vintage 2ch rig.
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    Check for dry rot. If they have ribbed/accordion style paper surrounds, they can be brittle and tear. Treated cloth may or may not be shot. Foam would definitely need replacing. Some woofers from the 60s and early 70s also had paper/cardboard voice coil formers, which can collapse.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    edited January 2016
    I'd buy them for 20 smackers :- )
    I doubt that the drivers will have foam surrounds -- more likely paper accordion, treated paper accordion, or cloth. Maybe sheepskin, like the Lafayette SK-58? ;-)

    Gold baskets -- first thought is Calrad drivers or University -- the label on the grilles is completely unfamiliar, though.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 10,716
    I thought University at first.

    My next thought is they were made by a company that made TVs
    then switched over because of good cheap Japanese TVs in the
    late 60's early 70's.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    Companies such as Curtis Mathes, for example.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,441
    Going out on a limb here... Utah's
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    KennethSwauger wrote: »
    Companies such as Curtis Mathes, for example.

    The present examples don't have a Curtis Mathes logo I recall, though, FWIW.
    I remember something like this ('borrowed' from an eBAY auction)

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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,020
    just for kicks I uploaded just the logo to Tineye to see if it would return anything. It did not. even rotated 90 degrees right, but same; no result.
    I was thinking this was some clever logo for mDi or mDl or something, but not returns on searches there, either.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,801
    edited January 2016
    two-thirds of it is, essentially, the schematic representation of a speaker driver.

    Still not sure if that's an "M", a "W" or... an "E" :-P
    EDIT: heh... or maybe even a "3" :-/
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    I thought it was a wacky E also,lol.
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  • michaeljhsda2
    michaeljhsda2 Posts: 2,184
    It looks like a lower case m.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    yes, that's what it looked like to me too.
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  • Dabutcher
    Dabutcher Posts: 2,596
    Went today to purchase after work. They are gone. Thanks. D
    MIT Magnum MH-750, Monster HTS 5100MKII, Sony 77" Class - A80CJ Series - 4K UHD OLED,PS4, Def Tech 15” sub,LSIM 706c, Sunfire Signature Grand 425 x 4,Parasound hca 120, LSiM 702 x 4, Oppo 103D, SDA SRS 1.2, Pioneer Elite SC63 , Pioneer Elite BDP-05 “Why did you get married if you wanted big speakers?”
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,020
    @#$%! maaaaaaaaaan! now we'll never know! lol
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  • ken brydson
    ken brydson Posts: 8,759
    Dabutcher wrote: »
    Went today to purchase after work. They are gone. Thanks. D

    D tease...
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    I don't know about youz guys but that logo looks like something that came down in Roswell, N.M.! lol Or else it was fabricated to provide eerie audio accompaniment to the practice of "auditing" in Scientology?
    Currently orbiting Bowie's Blackstar.!

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  • RamZet
    RamZet Posts: 792
    Maybe its
    Martin Audio London?
    M is for martin, triangle is a speaker, and "l" is London?
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    I think the logo is trying to say to cut the top off a coat hanger before using it as speaker wire, it's Excellent, or maybe the sideways M is not an E and is actually supposed to stand for Magnificent.
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    Looks like ancient Egyptian....maybe even Alien. Who cares.....do they sound good ?
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    I think they are alien....probably from Uranus...
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