Very rare vintage speakers

F1nut
F1nut Posts: 50,561
edited March 2009 in 2 Channel Audio
The cool factor is off the charts!

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1234832086
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited January 2009
    Hard to believe they are from 1948. Two 15" drivers each and a true horn tweeter. All this to play mono recordings on 78 rpm at the time. Mr. Lansing was way way ahead of his time. I agree monsterous cool factor. Thanks F1.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,726
    edited January 2009
    Very interesting that the original owner had bought just one back in 1948 and had a special corner stage built for it in his home.
    Not a pair, but one; with mono being the only game in town, the single was a system back then.

    Nice to see that Avidear is treating these speakers with the respect that they deserve. Not a lot of people would go to the effort in tracking their background, either. I think that he has them greatly underpriced $14500 for the pair considering their original condition and the care he's taking in restoring them. It definitely seems like he's doing it for love, but not the love of money.


    Awesome. :eek:
    Sal Palooza
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited January 2009
    Hard to believe that most inquiring about them want them shipped. I don't know of a freight/shipping line I would trust with heirloom quality stuff unless its was a vintage car carrier or piano moving company.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,726
    edited January 2009
    Very interesting that the original owner had bought just one back in 1948 and had a special corner stage built for it in his home.
    Not a pair, but one; with mono being the only game in town, the single was a system back then.

    Nice to see that Avidear is treating these speakers with the respect that they deserve. Not a lot of people would go to the effort in tracking their background, either. I think that he has them greatly underpriced $14500 for the pair considering their original condition and the care he's taking in restoring them. It definitely seems like he's doing it for love, but not the love of money.


    Awesome. :eek:
    Sal Palooza
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2009
    I wonder how they sound??? And, if you bought them, would you risk blowing out a driver, just to enjoy them? Sounds like these are more a conversation piece than anything else.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited January 2009
    maybe these would be perfect for tina???

    RT1
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited January 2009
    Mono Rules!
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • thall
    thall Posts: 25
    edited January 2009
    Did you see this one?

    http://cgi.ebay.com/JBL-PARAGON-EARLY-283-D44000-SPEAKER-16ohm-RARE-375_W0QQitemZ260342930859QQihZ016QQcategoryZ3276QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited January 2009
    Awesome.
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  • duane51
    duane51 Posts: 1
    edited March 2009
    for shipping vintage stuff like this i recommend redman salt lake city movers. they do specialized shipping, which includes pianos and fine art. i think they can probably move vintage cabinets with no problem.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2009
    thall wrote: »
    Did you see this one?

    http://cgi.ebay.com/JBL-PARAGON-EARLY-283-D44000-SPEAKER-16ohm-RARE-375_W0QQitemZ260342930859QQihZ016QQcategoryZ3276QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    That is what I would call VINTAGE. Yeah J.B. Lansing did put out some interesting designs...of course a lot of the stuff was for commercial purposes. I still run a late 80s set of their studio monitors (two channel stereo) which I like quite a bit but they don't like 'bad' mixes.

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2009
    I can honestly say that every JBL loudspeaker I ever heard, was varying degrees of bad.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2009
    George Grand wrote: »
    I can honestly say that every JBL loudspeaker I ever heard, was varying degrees of bad.


    Loud,... and bad. ;)
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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