Western Electric Rules!

megasat16
megasat16 Posts: 3,521
edited December 2009 in The Clubhouse
It Rules! They simply Rules! If I have a pair, I would say they Rules!

They don't rule if I own them! They rules after I sold them.

A Pair of Western Electric 555W Compression Drivers sold for over 16K!

I can get a JM Focal Labs Alto Utopias for the kind of money they were sold for!

But hey, it's Western Eeeeeeelectric.........

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-western-electric-555W-nice-perfect-diaphragm_W0QQitemZ160385813343QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Electronics_R2?hash=item2557bd4b5f
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,383
    edited December 2009
    Are you off your meds again?;)

    I do not even know what the hell those things are, but that price seems rather insane.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited December 2009
    Funny, the first thing that came to mind are the western electric rules that apply when you're looking at shifts in a control chart. I just finished up teaching a six sigma green belt class so apparently that's where my mind is still at
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited December 2009
    Crackpipe?




    Those "things" are compression horn drivers. They are pretty beefy so they are likely from some sort of theater or public address system.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited December 2009
    Here, info about Western Electric: http://www.we13a.com/menu/history.htm?menu=1&subm=1
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited December 2009
    And in case anyone is bored enough to want to know what I was referencing, here's a link:

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric_rules?wasRedirected=true
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited December 2009
    That's what I thought. Western Electric used to build sound systems for theaters and the 555W was a compression driver designed by dudes at Bell Labs (AT&T now). It was in a bunch of stuff but the most notable was the Vitaphone systems.
    1926 - Vitaphone sound system for motion pictures used a new speaker developed at Bell Labs. Wente and Thuras designed the Western Electric 555-W speaker driver that was coupled with a horn having a 1-in. throat and a 40-sq. ft. mouth; it was capable of 100-5000 hz freq. range with an efficiency of 25% (compared to 1% today) needed due to low amp power of 10 watts. The power amps were 205-D. Older loudspeakers were balanced armature type, but the newer 555-W speakers of the Vitaphone were moving coil type.

    http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/loudspeaker.html
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