The West Chicago store is on my way home from work so I stopped and got one of the 12 inch speakers and took it home.
N.B. I'm not an audio expert and my ears have been corrupted by decades of static crashes. With that in mind..... It looks fine, brand new. I don't have anything other than a little 2 lb postal scale but it felt like it weighed around 3 pounds. I hooked it up to one of my little Heathkit EA-2 amps. This is a 12 w. 20 w. peak mono push-pull amp pair of 6BQ5s that Heath sold in the 1950s. Couldn't remember the Z of the speaker so tried it on both 4 and 8 ohms. Sounded best on 8 ohms. The EA-2 gave plenty of power to drive it. Of course this quick test was without an enclosure for it and using clip leads. I tuned in a local broadcast station on 720 with the rx on 14 KHz passband. Full range audio, but to get the low frequencies and highs it does require more oomph in those ranges compared to a cabinet with 2 or three speakers and a crossover network. Put in a good cabinet with a zip cord to a receiver that can put out 5 or 6 watts audio and it should sound pretty good. Jerry when you get yours I'll be interested in knowing if my observation squares with yours. I don't have a cabinet to put mine in so if you do have one, reading how it sounds in a cabinet will be useful too. 73 Rob K5UJ On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Bernie Doran <[email protected]> wrote: > Let us know, I did order some small dc gearmotors a while back and they were > fine. these looked good to me but was afraid to say anything, someone would > squak Bernie. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerald Stockinger" <[email protected]> > To: "AM Radio" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:24 PM > Subject: [AMRadio] Speakers > > >> We will all learn in about a week. I just ordered two of each. >> >> 73 >> >> Gerald D. (Jerry) Stockinger >> >> K9GOZ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
