my speakers are older than yr dad: cool or stupid?

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wharfdale w-xp2
toshiba stereo receiver sa-220L

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Very good, a triumph against consumerism. My dad is 61 though.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 17 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Technics sb-2665

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/3948/speakers12eu.jpg
(not my picture)

I don't know how old they are, but they are not young. And they still sound fantastic.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i am a proud father.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i went to buy them WITH my dad come to think of it -- i made a big fuss checking out how good the speakers sounded with a whole buncha difft types of record and then bought a totally crappy record-player which i had to take back like a week later

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My dad's 70 this year, you lose!

― It's Expected I'm Maud Gonne (Modal Fugue), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

do ppl still say "stereo"? i can remember when you could choose LPs in mono or stereo, there was a little round hole in the sleeve and you peeked in, and if it was red it was mono, and blue was stereo

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Rogers LS6 (not older than mark's dad)

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I still say stereo

― TOMB07 (trm), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

btw, in answer to the thread question: cool.

I can't date these speakers online, but eBay does list them in the "vintage electronics" category. I'm thinking, mid-80's?

TS: old speakers vs. new speakers?

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

well my wharfedale speakers outlived my mac speakers by 25 years -- but they are bigger, with a nice sturdy wood surround

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

from eBay: "These speakers are in excellent condition like new . I am the original owner they have been only in my house. got married a few years ago and my wife says there too big."

My heart goes out to you, brother.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a gorgeous teak pair of Acoustic Research AR-4xs, with tweed grilles, bought new circa 1965 (not by me) for $130/pair. Their cones are rather flabby but I keep them as furniture. On the back is still glued a mail-in warranty card: "The bottom half should be torn along the perforated line and mailed to us. If the postal card section is missing you cannot be sure that you have a new unit."

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Can you replace cones? Don't they always wear/mush over time?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

On the back it also says "No attempt should be made to open cabinet, as the acoustic seal would be disturbed."

I'm sure it could/should be done, but it's not a high priority. If only I'd taken the elective Loudspeaker Building/Repair class my high school offered!

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

well, the cone is a special thing with its own special qualities. There's probably no chance of finding exactly the same material to replace the cone with in a vintage speaker, and then the speaker wouldn't sound the same. So, lost cause.

I prefer paper. Something about the material itself seems to dampen and control resonance.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Slightly different cones vs mushy sound? Besides, you don't know what 2nd-hand speakers sounded like in the first place, right?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, a speaker is a thing in total, more than the sum of its parts if it's well designed. You wouldn't want to put someone else's cone inside a speaker any more than you would want to substitute a different liquor in a cocktail recipe. (Sorry, first analogy that came to mind.)

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Welcome to Speaker Talk. I'm Paul Baldwin.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

My point being, laurel, that you're better off buying new speakers.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not buying new speakers, I don't even have any stereo components.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 17 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

the collective you

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

see i wouldn't think twice abt repalcing the toshiba if i had to, despite its emotion-rich archeology of coffee-rings but the speakers i wd be sad to lose

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 17 February 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

My dad =

http://www.together.net/~victrola/cygnethorn.jpg

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Saturday, 17 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

It's my dad's birthday today, 68 years young. Happy Birthday Dad.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 17 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

awww. HB.

― Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone (kenan), Saturday, 17 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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