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Incomprehensible space llama
Today I found a pair of these Allied 2385 speakers in a thrift shop. The cabinets are absolutely beautiful--dang near perfect walnut veneer, and perfect brown grillecloth. The only cosmetic problem is someone stacked other dirty speakers on top of one, and scratched the top! But my secret wood restorer made the scratches just about disappear.
Opening them up was a mixed experience for me. The cabinets are relatively well made; solid, but not internally braced. The driver complement is all Jensen: 15" woofer, 4x10 horn mid, and nice-looking dome tweeter. Most of the drivers were missing a mounting nut or two, and one cabinet was missing the port tube! And, no damping material whatsoever. So, I stuffed the horn throats with polyfil, and damped the daylights out of the cabinets with the same stuff. And glued in a pvc port tube, leftover from my Barzilay E-Wave project.
Another interesting thing: the back of the cabinet and the "crossover" is stamped with the same mfg. and date code as the drivers--220007. Could the cabinets have been built by Jensen as well?
Anyway, I haven't hooked them up yet, as the glue is still curing for the port tube. But when I do, it will be with a Pioneer SX-737. I'm not expecting to catch "lightning in a bottle" with these, but I would like them to sound at least halfway decent! If they sound like complete crap, I could gut them, sell the drivers, and build another E-wave! Oh, the possibilities... :scratch2:
Opening them up was a mixed experience for me. The cabinets are relatively well made; solid, but not internally braced. The driver complement is all Jensen: 15" woofer, 4x10 horn mid, and nice-looking dome tweeter. Most of the drivers were missing a mounting nut or two, and one cabinet was missing the port tube! And, no damping material whatsoever. So, I stuffed the horn throats with polyfil, and damped the daylights out of the cabinets with the same stuff. And glued in a pvc port tube, leftover from my Barzilay E-Wave project.
Another interesting thing: the back of the cabinet and the "crossover" is stamped with the same mfg. and date code as the drivers--220007. Could the cabinets have been built by Jensen as well?
Anyway, I haven't hooked them up yet, as the glue is still curing for the port tube. But when I do, it will be with a Pioneer SX-737. I'm not expecting to catch "lightning in a bottle" with these, but I would like them to sound at least halfway decent! If they sound like complete crap, I could gut them, sell the drivers, and build another E-wave! Oh, the possibilities... :scratch2: