Wharfedale corner speakers ?

[Wardsweb]

I picked up a set of what I think are Wharfedale corner cabinets. They look kind of like mini K-horn cabinets but they have mids and tweets that fire up out of the top of the cabinets. The single 12 or 15 fires forward. They came empty but I was told they house red magnet woofers. Any idea what there things are?

[bully]

Any model info anywhere on 'em?
Couple of weeks ago I got a pair of mint Wharfedale 12-inch woofers, built like well a Peterbilt.
Lots of models listed in my 97 Orion.

pete

[Wardsweb]

Well it's only taken a little over two years to find out these started out life as Wharfedale Airedale speakers. Here is a picture I found of some late 60's versions. Mine are early 60's. The grills set in where the picture grills almost look flush to the top and bottom of the cabinet.

[Wardsweb]

Here is a "how I got them" picture.

[Wardsweb]

and during the rebuild

[styler]

i think they are beautiful... would like to see the finished product.

[krimney]

I have one Wharfedale Corner speaker. Mine is a two piece with the bottom being 3 sided with and an open back. It houses a 15" woofer which IIRC has a big red magnet. There is also a piece that sits on top with an 8" mid and a 5" tweeter both fire upwards. The cabinet is sand filled an HEAVY. I have never hooked it up. The guy I bought it from had it all taken apart and was going to sell all the drivers separatley and scrap? the cabinet. Thanks to an AKer posting here I was able to contact the guy who is local and buy it all. He has since brought me some other speakers he could not ebay due to size. One day I may get around to completing the re-build. I do have a set of Wharfedale 12" if you need a set.

[Nat]

I had a pair of those warfedales. The midrange surrounds had decomposed and one tweeter had a non matching cone/voice coil simple put in place -- no surround or spider. Sounded great! Not perfectly flat or transparent, but warm, spacious, clear, with a good deal of get up and go. Non parallel sides probably helped as did the ceramic tiles held under tension to damp the walls. Pity it was gutted when you found it...

[Wardsweb]

The drivers were missing, but they still have the tiles inside and the casters on the bottom. I closed up the holes in the mid brace to cut the volume in the woofer compartment and then cut a new back panel with tuned ports for the JBL driver. In the corner, these things have tons of solid bass.

[Wardsweb]

Here is the finished product

[Parky50]

AWESOME JOB !!!
What a great transformation !!!
Be sure to let us know how they are sounding...

[Celt]

Gorgeous!

[Wardsweb]

These were very well received at the last Lone Star Bottlehead meet at my house. Many said they wouldn't change anything, but for me I wanted more high end crispness. So, I just picked up these mint 077 tweeters. I will build a secondary crossover to JBL specs (3106/N8000), thanks to Giskard who supplied me with the JBL schematic made to cross these very drivers (077 & LE175).

[Wardsweb]

Here is a pic of the DIY 3106 crossover. I adjusted these and mounted them inside the cabinet. So you only see the 3110A crossovers from the outside.

[lynnm]

Magnificent work Wardsweb!