This summer, as I was coming back from the river on my bicycle, exhauted from the ride, I saw a very old looking corner type wooden box on the sidewalk among boxes and debris. It was obviously there for a while. It had rained on it and the top layer of the wood started to peel of at some places! Well, I couln't take it with me on my bike... So I came back later with my friend's Jeep. It was still there. When I got home, I removed the heavy protective grill. It was a 3 ways speaker by Electrovoice. A 12 inch woofer, a plastic horn midrange and a tweeter. The speakers looked not damaged by the water thanx to the ultra heavy protective grill. I plugged it in. Miracle... It worked AND sounded amazing... very natural. Among the best mid I have heard. The tweeter wasn't working. I am planning on using it as an extra speaker to put somewhere in the house. I will have to fix the crossover. The tweeter has already been fixed by a friend of mine. It looks terrible but sounds fabulous... Now, I need to find another one...
Equipment found at the dump
I work at a waste transfer station. We get some interesting things thrown away. Lots of older speakers most with bad foam surrounds. I've repaired 2 pairs of Advents, have a pair of Allison Eights, a pair of Bose 601's, ADS 620's, and some misc speaker drivers and componets. I missed out on a pair of DQ-10's. Lots of turntables mostly cheap stuff.I did find a Thorens and a Luxman. I keep the cartridges if they appear good. I've found componets and systems which are 5 to 15 years old and in good working condition, Kenwood, Yamaha, Denon stuff. Some of the more interesting things found are:Conrad Johnson Premier 3,The Fisher tube tuner KT-60 and integrated amp, Quad 22 system minus amps, SME SII tonearm with cable, Aragon 24k minus power supply(I found this one after pushing up the metal pile with a loader, the Tiffany connectors caught my eye), SAE preamp, Adcom GFA-1a, Pioneer SX-939, H/K 730, B&O mini speakers, NAD 4155 tuner. It amazes me what gets thrown. I,ve put systems together for my kids and have given systems and componets to the school to sell in yard sale fundraisers. My computers have all come home from work, all Pentium III's with great componets and memory. I hope to start an audio club with my son at the local Charter School and use the things I've found to get interested kids started in our hobby. Although this stuff isn't the best, we all started somewhere. All systems can be improved or tweeked and the fundamentals are important(phase, placement, alignment). This would be fun.
I'm interested in what equipment others have found or have been given. Thanks
I'm interested in what equipment others have found or have been given. Thanks
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