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The Garglebard 
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 Topic: The Worst Speaker Ever?!Posted: 13 January 2009 at 8:32pm |
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Owing to my repuation as a bit of a 'speaker nut' i was very kindly given an unmatched pair of Jamo 3-way speakers at the weekend.
One is a D266 and the other is a D265. Anyway, the tweeters had blown so i thought i'd take them apart and see if anything was salvagable. One cabinet had a rather nice Eminence Beta 12A in good condition. It's rated at 250W RMS (even though the cabinet is rated at 150w RMS). The other cab contained what i suspect could well be a contender for the world's worst speaker.   Can anyone beat this?  |
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markie
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 8:46pm |
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Jamo did some "Pro 200EX" cabs, which were 10 inch plus 2 tweeters. They actually didn't sound too bad, but were only about 92dB efficient. However the worst thing was that the 10" drivers were very expensive to replace and were a non standard voice coil size so even a good re-cone man couldn't do them. HORRIBLE.
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If it's got wheels or tits it's gonna cost a fortune
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jbinks
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 8:58pm |
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hahaha I love the size of the magnet!
Terminals are pretty impressive too!
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 9:02pm |
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lol, ye i remember opening a Jamo 365 (15") and it was the nastiest tiny little driver i had ever seen, did make me
tho, and to think at the time peeps were actually buying these things 
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rich_gale
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 9:19pm |
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i just died when i saw the magnet on the back of that driver. whats the vc? .5"?
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Jake_Fielder
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 9:25pm |
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That is really funny, that is the worst magnet:cone size ratio i have ever seen!
You'd be a good salesman is you managed to sell those to levyte!
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The Garglebard
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 9:28pm |
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lol  Funnily enough, the magnet on the 4 inch mid from the same cabinet is almost exactly the same size... |
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 11:22pm |
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i had a speaker once with 2 different 12" drivers in it.. and one of them was very old.. and (i didn't know anything like as much about speakers back then as i do now) it had, from memory, like.. a metal sort of square ring on the back of the driver.. mounted on the magnet.. but i'm sure i remember this weird ring thing (like.. a bracket maybe) where the magnet would go. right that's a terrible description.. i'm gonna try and do a drawing of what i'm thinking...
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cravings
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 11:39pm |
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eh.. very quick sketch of how i remember it...
 the "ring" was like.. heavy.. it's the lower driver in this pic...  anyway.. just curious if anyone's seen such a thing. the tiny magnet on the one posted above put it in my head. |
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Posted: 14 January 2009 at 12:02am |
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Cravings, iv got something like that on the shelf, with that weird square mounted magnet on a cast chassis and thick green felt around the outer edge for rear mounting, i think it is either celestion or wharfdale, iv got lots of odd old cones that i cant bring my self to chuck away,
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Posted: 14 January 2009 at 12:30am |
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TOA SL112 cos they sound crap and anything sounds better!! even good old scott boxes sound nicer!!
Death to toa boxes, I unfortunatly due to budget restraints supplied a couple to a venue a number of years ago, and really wish I hadn't, but they couldnt aford anything else, i have opened them up to repair a couple of times and the drivers actualy look worse and cheaper than that, they look like somthing out of a tandy raidio!!
(got that off my chest hehe)
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Posted: 14 January 2009 at 12:38am |
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its cleverly designed so the magnet doesn't use up too much precious cabinet volume.
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