Can You ID The Drivers?
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Topic: Can You ID The Drivers?
Posted By: burningbush
Subject: Can You ID The Drivers?
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 5:05pm
Seen this with its lenses...
 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Professional-Loudspeakers-/150557358654?pt=UK_ConElec_SpeakersPASystems_RL&hash=item230deafa3e - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Professional-Loudspeakers-/150557358654?pt=UK_ConElec_SpeakersPASystems_RL&hash=item230deafa3e
But at £300 they had better be the real deal, lol. ------------- music is the message |
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Posted By: TONY.A.S.S.
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 5:57pm
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I think they're Volt. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3 |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 6:41pm
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I think the cabinets are Mega of London circa early 80's Tony?
Arnt the 10" drivers early Fane studio 10's? ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: TONY.A.S.S.
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 6:45pm
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I still think they're volt. I think they have a roll surround and David was in the Mega circle at that time. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3 |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 6:49pm
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Arr,ok Tony,fair play.
I think the lenses are McCauley....certainly not JBL. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: djeddie
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 7:44pm
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I'm with Tony on this one, sorry Ian! They look like Volt to me too. But £300 for that lot works out at less than £20 per driver, not including the cabs, HF and flares. A total bargain... as long as they're all working. ------------- Chas n Dave : it's like Drum and Bass but with beards. E=mc² ±3dB |
Posted By: rich_gale
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 7:54pm
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now there's a killer free party suicide rig right there! 8x 15" worth of air movement, and probably over 100-103db/1w per cabinet. id guess 800wrms per cab? wish i had the room ------------- REFLEX ALL THE WAY.... (however, im playing with horns again...) That ok Mister Valiant? :) |
Posted By: Mircea Bartic
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 8:28pm
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they look more like 10" woofers compared to the fire extinguishers
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Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 9:10pm
| Roger Squires expensive install cabinets that were indeed fitted with Volt drivers but I cannot remember which lens or driver was on the back. |
Posted By: TRE4U2NV
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 10:01pm
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defo volt got 8 in my unit very old funny ohmage if i remember rightly ------------- IM SO SECRETIVE BUT I CANT TELL YOU WHY |
Posted By: Mark B
Date Posted: 14 March 2011 at 10:02pm
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Yes, Squire AD4 cabs were fitted with Volt drivers & Celestion HF50 bullets.
Mark B
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Posted By: TONY.A.S.S.
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 12:20am
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Robbo, do you remember Nick Cohen. He ran AMS. Artist Monitoring Services. He specialized in cabs with multiple small speakers which were Volts. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3 |
Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 15 March 2011 at 12:44am
| I remember AMS from the old days Tony but the name Nick Cohen doesn't ring a bell with me but because we were so far away from London we didn't socialize as much as we should have done really but I can still remember some good old West End nights out with Peter Ross, Chris Sherwin and Cliff Campbell. |
Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 4:57pm
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Didn't Avitec make a cab like these? seem to remember the same cab but with just 2 x 10's
+ on the Volts! ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: service dept Steve
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 5:45pm
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Black widow, They had volts like these and also Celestion rtt50 with a tiny lens (not like these). I did have a few many years ago, they sounded really rather good. Sold them all but for some reason I still have a pair of the lenses in my shed. (!?)
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Posted By: Robbo
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 7:38pm
| I seem to remember that a lot of those small lenses were made by Isophon. |
Posted By: TONY.A.S.S.
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 8:52pm
Colin they were probably ours. I used to sell 2x10 plus horn to Avitec to go above their Cerwin Vega bass cabs. We also did a 4x10 plus horn which went into the Circus Tavern in Purfleet. Those were the days. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3" rel="nofollow - http://www.facebook.com/tony.rossell.3 |
colint wrote:Posted By: colint
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 9:41pm
I think that where I remember them from at one of the shows with the JE36/stroker cabs. Used to love the Avitec stand at the shows, always had plenty of good kit (well for them days anyway) and a massive rack of KT processing stuff complete with KT analyser that would have made a skytec cabs sound great Lol. I Wonder whatever happened to Tony Kingsley? That's when plasa/badem shows were the best I also remember the A.S.S stands from those shows too, great stuff and totally of of the realm's of most Dj's but I did get some in the end! (but about ten years later) ------------- Never criticise another man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Once you have, call him what you like, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes! |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 9:14am
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Avitec were of course the UK Cerwin vega importers back then..Hitchin in Hertfordshire if i remember? They had an excellent colour brochure around 1980,which would rival the Squire's catalogue for disco goodies.....including the entire Kremesa range of lighting,helicopters,etc. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: Mhamplification
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 3:26pm
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Have you got the catalogue then Ian It would be great to see it on here Martin |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 18 March 2011 at 4:46pm
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I think i still have it Martin,will have a rummage around when i get a moment.
------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 04 April 2011 at 2:01pm
Some JBL 12" for £20 in Battersea area...
 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-speaker-cabinets-/190519398929?pt=UK_ConElec_SpeakersPASystems_RL&hash=item2c5bd75211 - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-speaker-cabinets-/190519398929?pt=UK_ConElec_SpeakersPASystems_RL&hash=item2c5bd75211 ------------- music is the message |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 04 April 2011 at 2:32pm
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At first sight i thought those were E-120's Gav,Happy days,but looking closely,they dont have the ally centre domes...icant make out the label,but i believe these are the smaller G125-8's....if someone wants the fourth driver to match them all up,i have one in the for sale section. ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: jbl_man
Date Posted: 04 April 2011 at 2:43pm
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http://www.jblpro.com/pub/obsolete/G125-8_And_G135-8.pdf - http://www.jblpro.com/pub/obsolete/G125-8_And_G135-8.pdf ------------- Be seeing you. |
Posted By: burningbush
Date Posted: 04 April 2011 at 3:18pm
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Same here, I thought OOH, nice and cheap for someone! Now you say that, I can see the label says G125-8 ------------- music is the message |
Posted By: Speakerman
Date Posted: 17 January 2012 at 1:10pm
| They are absolutely and definitely volt speakers.David Lyth designed them and still going. I used to service them. The old nightmoves nightclub was full of them. worth repairing and they can take quite a lot of stick. Th celestion horn was the weakest link |