Speakers built by NASA rocket scientist...on CL

[slowpat]

I would rather buy a rocket built by the rocket scientist since that was his specialty, but how does it add street cred to speakers? Seriously though, I think the tweeter was placed too far from the woofer...

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/ele/d/vintage-two-way-speaker/6744647987.html

 

[peerson]

Yes, But would you buy a Rocket from a Speaker Scientist?

 

[dbxdx5]

Those are supposed to put out propulsive bass, with stratospheric highs.

 

[spark1]

I have a set of speakers once owned by a brain surgeon. That should really boost their value.

 

[Leland47]

They look good .....maybe he left room for a mid in between?

 

[markshan]

They look good .....maybe he left room for a mid in between?

I would think woofer low to reinforce bass and tweeter up high to bring it to ear level and help imaging.

 

[KiM3Ce]

Nice tidy wiring job!

 

[sKiZo]

Press to MECO. Press to MECO ...

They'd make a nice match for my Hughes AK100 maybe. Also built by rocket scientists with wayyyyy too much time to kill ...

PS ... I see one potential flaw in the design - looks to be a closed box, but some pretty good gaps around the cable exit? Then again, nothing a lump of caulk wouldn't fix ...

Oh. And does anybody recognize the crossover? Looks to be an off the shelf kit ...

 

[KiM3Ce]

The finishes on the crossover and tweeter look similar. I Googled Calrad and found this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273511841149

 

[elcoholic]

I would rather buy a rocket built by the rocket scientist since that was his specialty, but how does it add street cred to speakers

It doesn’t. I had a draftswoman whose hubby was a rocket fuel scientist at JPL. She was always sharing tales of how utterly useless he was around the house.

 

[SaSi]

I have built a couple of speakers and I'm a metallurgical engineer turned programmer. Does that account for anything?

 

[cartop]

I bet you they sound Out of this world............

 

[UncleBingo]

Jon Dahlquist was a NASA guy...

 

[Djcoolray]

I guess it depends on what they sound like....

 

[UncleBingo]

It doesn’t. I had a draftswoman whose hubby was a rocket fuel scientist at JPL. She was always sharing tales of how utterly useless he was around the house.

Sounds like he had a system all worked out !

 

[Tommy_B]

I would rather buy a rocket built by the rocket scientist since that was his specialty, but how does it add street cred to speakers? Seriously though, I think the tweeter was placed too far from the woofer...l

Had to laugh when I first saw the subject line of the thread ... my first thought was "hey, I'm now an engineer at an aerospace company, so maybe I could use that cred to design/sell speakers too". But then I remembered that I've been doing digital design my entire career, so maybe not. (Ooooh, but I could advertise my speakers as "digital ready" LOL)

 

[Lavane]

I have a set of 15" woofers with alinco magnets that look exactly like those.
Thay came out of a Magnavox console along with a set of horns. Those may not sound too bad. Probably pretty efficient too. 10wpc would be all you need.

 

[markshan]

Thay came out of a Magnavox console

That's what I thought.

 

[mhardy6647]

I have a set of speakers once owned by a brain surgeon. That should really boost their value.

Wasn't the erstwhile loudspeaker company Bugtussel owned/run by a neurosurgeon?
Nope, but I was close -- a PhD neuroscientist. Thus did they have a model called Amygdala.

http://stereotimes.com/speak032902.shtml

 

[jim t]

The wiring looks military spec.