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Ian, They are some of the heaviest cabinets for their size ever built---We had two stacks of Turner come through our hands in the seventies complete with B502s and B302s---in all 12 boxes, 6x single 15 flares 4xsingle 10" flares and a pair of Vitavox loaded HF cabinets---15" drivers were JBL D130--absolutely useless in that cab---10" drivers were JBL d110.
All of the cabinets were the same width and same depth--just the height differed which made a nice looking stack and sounded quite nice at low volume but as things got wound up a bit it gradually sounded worse by the DB and all of the boxes were banded with aluminium edging which used to rip your hands apart.
We sold it all on and it was hanging around the Wolverhampton and West Midlands area for a fair few years after.
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That's interesting John, i have never seen them before. Gauss 4580 or 4583 would have been a better choice, but i reckon those Turners pre-dated them....im guessing around 1974-75 ish?

PD 1550 would work i reckon.
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Originally posted by jbl_man jbl_man wrote:

Matt, i have found something here to go with your Turner amps.....Turner cabinets! They look based on on the Altec 816 theme, look well-made. I doubt very much if they are the original drivers, but stick some EV's or JBL's in there,nice vintage kit.  Here's the link. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/152995852507597/


These boxes would most likely have been part of Bowie's 'Sound Control' PA System, there were lots and lots of those boxes - I never saw them used as a pa system, Mike Turner made up four of these for me back in the early 70s, all four loaded with JBL K140's and two of them with EV 1829 drivers on EV 8HD horns and a JBL 075 tweeter.

I couldn't afford his Turner amps at that time (though I used his Turner Power Packs with a DC300 inside on accasion) and ran them with a pair of Sound City 200-watt pa amps.

Very awkward to handle on your own especially if staits were involved, and he took them back in trade for a pair of tall but shallow 2x15's loaded with Gauss 4583's and (!!!!!)  piezo tweeters.   Didn't sound so good but a lot easier to handle.

Mike Cotter later reconed them to 4583B (the Pink Floyd special) after my (then) new H|H TPA100 amps went DC and took out the coils.

edit additional: the handles on the back of the 1x15's look like later additions; the cabs normally had a box indented on the side with a bar handle through the box


Edited by BJtheDJ - 10 March 2020 at 5:38pm
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