New life for Vintage Speakers
MillerLiteScott
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I have only been around these parts for a year now.
But I now own three pairs of vintage speakers.
It seems many others are buying up the good vintage speakers at a decent rate. Polk is manufacturing more of their vintage drivers, and are currently out of RDO 194's.
Is this something new or has it been steady for a while? I am not just limiting my question to Polk Audio.
I will click submit and listen.
But I now own three pairs of vintage speakers.
It seems many others are buying up the good vintage speakers at a decent rate. Polk is manufacturing more of their vintage drivers, and are currently out of RDO 194's.
Is this something new or has it been steady for a while? I am not just limiting my question to Polk Audio.
I will click submit and listen.
I like speakers that are bigger than a small refrigerator but smaller than a big refrigerator:D
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The OTHER guys here are the Polk experts, but I have been playing with SOME Vintage speakers for years.MillerLiteScott wrote: »I have only been around these parts for a year now.
But I now own three pairs of vintage speakers.
It seems many others are buying up the good vintage speakers at a decent rate. Polk is manufacturing more of their vintage drivers, and are currently out of RDO 194's.
Is this something new or has it been steady for a while? I am not just limiting my question to Polk Audio.
I will click submit and listen.
A good speaker is a good speaker, regardless of when it was made.
Many like Vintage speaker IMHO because they like the mellow sound of old caps/resistors.
And some "well regarded" vintage speakers sound totally different when re capped.
I have "ruined" sevral pair of vintage speaker re capping them.
They lost their :magic:, and of course that "magic" was the laid back sound of OLD caps,. LOL
BUT, I have recapped and re coiled/resistored some old Vintage speakers and they were outstsnding.
Must have been that solid core teflon wire,, ROTFLMAO
Seriousl, I recently heard my old Dynaco A 25's I think they were.
I really tricked em out, all air core flat wire coil, Clarity Red Caps, and Rodderstein resistors.
I damped the driver baskets with rope caulk, and tarred the cabinets!
This is an "old school" trick that is MOST effective.
You get some tar, and add sand to it, as much as the tar will hold and still stay liquid.
You remove ALL the drivers.wires/crossover, and you coat the inside of the cabinet with the tar/sand mixture.
It takes MONTHS to cure!
You do not DARE put it back together until it has finished gasing.
This is a most effective cabinet damping scheme,and I MIGHT get crazy, and do it to my SRS 2's.
I have 11 OTHER pairs of speakers to "get me by" until my SRS 2's cure.
Like I said, it can easily be 4 to 6 MONTHS to cure, but once you have heard a cabinet shut up like this, you will never forget this trick.
Getting back to the Dynaco A 25's, I sold them locally over three years ago.
That is what I often do, tweak a speaker, then sell it at my cost, well mostly I take a HUGE loss, LOL
But it is "Good Karma" to bring music into someones life I think ?
My old Dynaco's absolutely shocked me when I heard them at the new owners home.
All he has is a little Dared 845 Tube Integrated, with Kimber 4 cable, not even the better 8 series.
He has a Tube CD player he got, it's also China, sounds great.
The Dynaco's just disappeared, another trademark of a sand/tar damped cabinet.
Here is one of the bands songs we listened to.
This band has Ritchie Blackmore, remember him from Deep Purple ?
The foxy chick singing is his old lady who used to sing backup vocals for Deep Purple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgAR2hwoes
Here they sound a little more like old Deep Purple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed6uyNqh-pY
She's Lovely
