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Can anyone tell me what they might know about Fried speakers. I bought a pair at a yard sale this weekend not knowing what they were, I brought them home and gave them a spin, they sound great as good as my sansuis 2500 or my dynaco's they are small and in a odd shaped box no markings on them other than the magnets of the speakers. any
 

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By the way- I know dookie about those speakers you got, but IMF speakers, and Fried speakers, are typically exceptionally good.
 
Likely the Fried model C with 6.5" Bextrene cone driver (Dalesford I think) and a really nice Dynaudio D-28 horn loaded tweeter. Evolved from the model B/2 in a pyramidal enclosure.

Here's a review link to a DIY seller named Sonikit from the late 70's early 80's that I actually visited a number of times and met the owner, Dennis Jaeger. He tried to sell prefab kits of various Euro designs with unfortunately only modest success.

You'll find pics and a description of the model c inside:
http://mpbarneyspeakers.googlepages.com/SonikitBrochureofFriedKits-1979.pdf

Additional info on the model C from the Fried pages of the IMF speaker pages (http://www.imf-electronics.com/Home/fried):
http://www.scribd.com/full/14967148?access_key=key-119jr7tuy22doa7qmb4w

Kit instructions from Fried and probably adapted by Sonikit:
http://www.scribd.com/full/14966770?access_key=key-119hvax2rs0l91cbzp1q

Fried newsletter discussing the B/2:
http://www.scribd.com/full/15284088?access_key=key-170bo8crvzx7d4rmlsb8

Would be interesting to figure out if yours were kit built or factory. Not sure how to tell, more pictures all around would be of interest.

As I recall, these were really nice speakers and like to take some good clean power.

Keep us informed.

Bart
 

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Great Stuff Bart!!

Take me back: I owned the Fried C's and Model O subs from 1979 until about 1987 - the longest I've had any speaker in my main system. Updated the C's as Bud made changes. These were excellent speakers. I tried to find info/pics a few months ago with no success. I obviously wasn't looking in the right places.

Thanks!
Doak
 
The old Fried Model H was probably the best cone&dome speaker I ever heard. IMO.

Some maintain the Fried had nothing to do with the design of the IMFs, I believe it, I thought the Frieds sounded much better.
 
It is an unfortunate name for a speaker. Apparently good enough to overcome the inevitable jokes.
 
Thespeakerdude8 said:
I try to stay away from fried speakers...I mean, why pay money for something you KNOW is fried? :D
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I saw the title of this thread... and immediately thought "oh no, does Newman have anything to do with this?".

I'm just saying... this is the guy who lit up a pair of Pioneer HPM100s with a match and some lighter fluid! :D

Regards,
Gordon.
 
GordonW said:
I saw the title of this thread... and immediately thought "oh no, does Newman have anything to do with this?".

I'm just saying... this is the guy who lit up a pair of Pioneer HPM100s with a match and some lighter fluid! :D

Regards,
Gordon.
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Although to his credit, they were outside the house this time.

John
 
I bought Fried C and O parts kit also. When he changed crossover to series on C2 and O2 I did the same with mine. The sound was more detailed. The Dalesford woofers in first model C and O sound better in C3L and O4-O6 cabinets. There were 2 different versions of the first C and O drivers. Earlier versions were the stock, second were custom made larger magnets on both, larger voice coil on 10 "O driver it had the same motor as the stock 12 Dalesford sold in those days.. I switched tweeters and voiced crossover for Hiquphon tweeters. I have also used the Gefco's drivers.
 
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Yep, we were riding the same trail, for sure. Bud was quite a guy. We had looooooong telephone conversations that were both enlightening and entertaining. I fondly remember meeting Bud when he visited New Orleans in the early 80's.

I found him during my research into speakers - subscribed to the Fried Newsletter and all of the back issues -- going back into the 60's. What that taught me is that there is truly nothing new under the sun .. not in audio.

What Bud produced were full range, efficient, first order/serial crossovers, wide band main driver , transmission line loaded, very coherent and dynamic loudspeaker systems.

He made them available in kit form for DIY and there were a few artisans crafting the enclosures for folks like me who are not totally DIY. This could d be done for a fraction of what finished speakers would cost. What you ended up with, IMO, was a SOTA type speaker for not a whole lot of $$ -- of course this is a relative concept.

Doak
 
I met Bud Fried (pronounced "Freed" BTW) when he came to a store where I was working - Audio Warehouse in Pittsburgh - during the mid seventies. He and his assistant were there to address a problem we were having with blown drivers in the IMF line. He went up to a perfectly functioning TLS-50, whipped out a pocket knife and cut out the cone/voice coil assembly of the Kef B200 8 inch woofer. He used this dramatically acquired prop (repaired later at no charge to the store of course) to help explain his belief that designing a speaker with drivers that couldn't be blown was like designing a fender that couldn't be dented, i.e. impossible. We sold a lot of IMFs. You walked out of our store with Advents if you were on a budget, EV Interface As if you liked it loud, and IMFs if we thought you deserved them.
 
Fried R Phase 2

I owner a pair of these that I loved.TOTL IMO.Unfortunately they were stolen during a burglary.
 
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