Thespeakerdude8
Super Member
I scored a pair of these from goodwil today. I had ignored them for two weeks untill today I went to move them to look at an old AA5 radio and felt how heavy they were. I picked them up out of curiosity and pulled the grilles and hello-a planar ribbon tweeter! Hmm, I guess for $20 I should get them I thought.
They are 5" kevlar woofers with the Linaeum tweeters. RCA, but made for radio shack as indicated by the RS model number 40-5037.
What to do with these? Yes they have stunning imaging, but the rest of them don't sound much better than your average boombox speakers. I did stuff the ports with straws and threw a wash cloth in each for damping.
I have a few options here:
1) flip the speakers on ebay, they seem to fetch up to ~$100 a pair.
2) flip the tweeters alone, maybe they would go for more or less, but shipping would be cheaper.
3) add an external x-over and custom make some little cabinets and add them on top of my RS Nova 6's (which suffer from poor imaging due to the paper tweeters.)
Thoughts?
They are 5" kevlar woofers with the Linaeum tweeters. RCA, but made for radio shack as indicated by the RS model number 40-5037.
What to do with these? Yes they have stunning imaging, but the rest of them don't sound much better than your average boombox speakers. I did stuff the ports with straws and threw a wash cloth in each for damping.
I have a few options here:
1) flip the speakers on ebay, they seem to fetch up to ~$100 a pair.
2) flip the tweeters alone, maybe they would go for more or less, but shipping would be cheaper.
3) add an external x-over and custom make some little cabinets and add them on top of my RS Nova 6's (which suffer from poor imaging due to the paper tweeters.)
Thoughts?