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I don't think you quite realize what you have there Shocked

if you had 2, i would come and kill you for themLOL

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BTW, if anyone has 2 x Goodmans Axiettes! I will come and clean your house, wash your car, service your wife, and pay good money for them

if you had 2 x goodmans Axiom 80's, I will get on my knees and call you god before I parted with my soulLOL


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Originally posted by jbl_man jbl_man wrote:

They are enormous..must be 6 foot high? i dont think they were anything to do with Goodmans themselves,i had an early goodmans brochure (1974-75) and they had nothing like that,but the triaxiom driver was in it....i suspect these were either a custom-built job for an early sound system back then(although the build looks to good),or more probually they came out of a small commercial cinema....from behind the screen.
funny Ian, there is a very old geezer near you, him and his wife own a cattery, he's a retired engineer from GoodmansShocked very interesting talking to him, I suppose it was akin to a fan meeting ElvisLOL
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When you think of how many driver manufacturers that we had in the late 60's. Goodmans and Wharfedale being my favorites.

The Goodmans 18", Audium 91? was the first 18" jobby I ever played with, we had a couple and to be honest I did not know enough about boxes to get the best out of them.

We had to recenter the magnets on our Wharfedale Super 12s almost every time we took them out but it was worth it.

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Ditto that Tony,the very first drivers i bought were Goodmans 12PG's chrome-domes,purchased from Laskys for about £17 each new (the equivilant jbl k120 was around £90 then)...put them in some chipboard cabinets,bingo,first disco cabs.

Likewise,the first 18" i bought was a Goodmans 18P,(a later model than yours,this would be about 1975 i guess)...i was excited as that was my first 100watt driver.LOL  Really well made and finished though...cost £35 new.It was on this chassis that Wembley based their B-line driver i think?
 
Bit of a shame,Goodmans seemed to lose the plot in the 1980's,concentrating on making cheap Dixon's type consumer hifi,and eventually just became badged up chinese rubbish,ala Amstrad.
 
I dont know if the name exists at all now?
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A great find. I had 2x12's I built around '73 loaded with Axioms and Bakers. Then added a Goodmans horn tweeter. Saxon amp kits too!! Great days.
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Originally posted by Muckerbarnes1 Muckerbarnes1 wrote:

A great find. I had 2x12's I built around '73 loaded with Axioms and Bakers. Then added a Goodmans horn tweeter. Saxon amp kits too!! Great days.


Please don't mention the 12" Baker 50!! Almost every disco in the Black Country went out with Baker 50's in the early 70's a lot of them without any HF drivers at all. Jeez what a racket. No wonder  our Wharfies, 401's with SME's and Leak* valve amps got us so many bookings.

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hehe, you guys are getting all sentimental Smile

Originally posted by mykey- mykey- wrote:

funny Ian, there is a very old geezer near you, him and his wife own a cattery, he's a retired engineer from GoodmansShocked very interesting talking to him, I suppose it was akin to a fan meeting ElvisLOL

wow, maybe that guy knows something about my mysterious cabinet?

Do you know if there is a book or other resource about the history of Goodmans? I'm a history nut you know..... would love to talk to that old chap....Smile
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Originally posted by mykey- mykey- wrote:

I don't think you quite realize what you have there Shocked

if you had 2, i would come and kill you for themLOL

on the other hand maybe it's ok that I only have one, so mykey won't come down here and kill me LOL 

this thing seems to be rare as f**k, the only old documents on the net refer to the 615 c  which has an entirely different basket.
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that cab is a short and basic transmission line - if you listen to the port output it should just be the lowest notes.
true transmission lines are very long and get smaller towards the port ( in fact, true lines end up closing up to nothing), i think the theory is that the line gradually absorbs the rearward energy from the driver, starting with the highest, shortest wavelength frequencies. This makes the driver "see" no rear box at all, hence giving very low cut off frequencies and no phase issues with rear diaphragm radiation at the expense of low efficiency and a large, complex box

no good for modern PA, but superb for hifi - i have a pair of bowers and wilkins dm2 compact transmission lines from the early 70's as my hifi speakers at home, and for me they cant be beaten!
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TL's... wunerfull!
 
I have the old Wireless World cabs I built too many years back. B139's still ok. The mids perished as did the tweets. Now has Hi Fi Beyma 8" and Audax HD13D34H tweeters. Sounds lovelly. Ratles the whole house.
 
They were driven by some of our own amps and pre-amp, now a Rotel pre/power.


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sounds good. My old dm2's came from a junk shop for £50 about 8 years go - inc the original receipt, boxes and manuals. They were in mint condition with all original drivers ( b&w 8" bass, celestion hf1300 mid, coles 4001 supertweeters)
I bought them thinking they would be good for a second system - one week later my ATC scm20s with ATC sub were on ebay...
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