Are These Finds Good Deals?

John Parks

John Parks

Audioholic Samurai
Are they supposed to be that droopy? Mebbe it's because they are so old. I wonder if putting on some of @MR.MAGOO 's music will straighten them out...
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Mark E. Long

Mark E. Long

Audioholic General
Wow. Those are… unusual.
Somebody put some time in these and lots of bucks them drivers our not cheap. Kind of baffled by the clear plastic tube creating a chamber for the woofer I mean that’s a big opening or maybe there ment to be used with big subs !
 
Mark E. Long

Mark E. Long

Audioholic General
I've seen those bullet tweeters before. I wonder if they are old drivers.
Most likely they replaced the diaphragms in them . I’ve herd them before in other monitors they do sound very good they are easy to replace. Those bullet tweeters go for around 1.000 a pair . I’ve never understood the ohmage on these I’ve seen them anywhere from 16 ohms down to 4 ohms . There’s a lot of them on eBay .
 
Mark E. Long

Mark E. Long

Audioholic General
Kvn_Walker

Kvn_Walker

Audioholic Field Marshall
Yep I’ve herd of them late 80’s early 90’s were high dollar back then . Don’t know if there still around though.
Thiel is long gone. The original maker passed away, then the company got bought out by venture vultures and tried selling Chinese-made "audiophile" and "lifestyle" speakers which completely ignored the design principles of the original products. That failed spectacularly and they had a big liquidation auction last year.
 
Mark E. Long

Mark E. Long

Audioholic General
Thiel is long gone. The original maker passed away, then the company got bought out by venture vultures and tried selling Chinese-made "audiophile" and "lifestyle" speakers which completely ignored the design principles of the original products. That failed spectacularly and they had a big liquidation auction last year.
I thought I read that somewhere they got bought out and no doubt run it in to the ground that seems to happen all to frequently. Lol I run across a company just yesterday making and selling what I’d call knock off K- Horns that looked legit till ya looked at the back instead of a horn at the top they had an array of some small drivers of dubious looks wired in parallel no sign of crossover to be seen in any picture lol !
 
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