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kedwardsleisure
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Posted: 22 June 2017 at 12:03pm |
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Not many of these about I suspect, so pics of one that came in this week.
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Kevin
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4AC
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So what's inside?
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uǝɿɿɐʌǝ6ɯo sı ʇsʞǝʇ ǝzǝp
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kedwardsleisure
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Imagine a bomb went off in a branch of Maplins
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Kevin
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jbl_man
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These things were biblically expensive when new,think they date from around the 1990's? |
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Be seeing you.
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kedwardsleisure
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Not sure where the money went then
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Kevin
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njw
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There are a pair of those on the wall either side of the dancefloor in a local pub, they are definately connected to something but I've never heard them in action.
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DMorison
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Were these the ones with Volt radial chassis coax's in them?
Might explain part of the cost when new - even if what's behind the drivers isn't as good.
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kedwardsleisure
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Yes, Volt co-ax. Put it this way. The compression driver is hot-melted onto the back of the woofer. The crossover is then hot-melted onto the back of the CD magnet. The heatsink is hot-melted onto the rear of the cabinet. Amp parts are hot-melted, siliconed and screwed onto that at jaunty angles. The power supply components are (seemingly) randomly hot-melted at jaunty angles in various parts of the cabinet. The components are joined together with something resembling one of those bags of Multi-coloured Aldi Tagliatelli. You can imagine what happens when the CD falls off the back of the woofer and rattles around inside the cabinet like one of those pucks that they use on an air hockey table. I would've taken pics but I'd already put it back together before anyone came in. |
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Kevin
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madboffin
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Around 20 years ago there was a guy in Wales who fancied setting up a PA company with money he had made on another business (mobile phones, when that was a booming market, I think).
They equipped themselves with XL3 desks and lots of top quality kit. But for some unknown reason they bought a huge pile of Power Cubes, thinking that was a good way to build a large concert PA system. No, of course it didn't work ... Edited by madboffin - 23 June 2017 at 10:29pm |
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krazyneil
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there a bit hap-hazard in build but sound superb
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GOD TOLD ME TO DO IT !!!!!
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madboffin
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Yes, I used to know some people who had them for speaker-on-stick and small PA applications and they were good for that.
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DMorison
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Wow, did not know that!
Lots of sheared off component leads and the remains of said components joining the CD in the base of the box?
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