Anyone familier with Fuselier speakers?

whiteint,

Not only do I remember Belles, I am a dealer for David Belle’s current company Power Modules INC. All still 100% David Belles designed and built. Google Power Modules Inc. Belles and see theiur offerings.
David is an underappreciated designer and IMHO his Statement products will hang with anything out there under $50,000.

Mike

I knew John in the late 60's and early 70's when he flew.  He built a set of speakers, including the cases, for my husband and me, sometime in the early 70's!  I remember that he came to our apartment and set them up for us.  As he left, he drawled in that classic NOLA accent......" Well, you guys gonna' have the loudest most un-distorted music on the planet!"  He was so sweet and unassuming....really innocent, in a way.  One day, when I was VERY pregnant, in the summer of 1973,  he came to the door and invited me for a ride in his new car.  It was a banana yellow Panatera(not sure of how to spell it). I climbed in with a lot of help, and off we went!  I don't believe that car was meant to go less than 100 mph, but he was careful with me.  I held onto the seat for dear life and when we finished our 30 minute ride on the south expressway,  he leaned over and said "Sorta' rides like a buckboard, doesn't it?"  Sorry, folks....my ex got the speakers in the divorce!

Just for kicks and to help anyone...I live in the Roswell, GA area where Julian's Audio moved eventually; late 80's early 90's.  Because of that, I have many friends owning Fuselier speakers as do I.  What some of us have been able to do in the last couple of years is to find brand new "old stock" drivers to replace and rebuild our Fuseliers essentially making them new again. And this is done with the help of Benny Amina of Modular Electronics in Roswell, GA.  As noted in my previous post which is now 12 years old, Benny has the circuit diagrams and actually built the last few Fuselier speakers with Julian.  (Benny built me a pair of true Bookshelf speakers leveraging John's circuitry for my girlfrend and used the same cabinet builder that John used in AL.  They were/are unbelievable although Benny said he would never do that again - lost money.)   He is still in business.  What a treasure to have this resource.  So, to be able to have a "new" pair of 1992 Fuselier 3.8E (41" H x 13 1/2" D x 11" W) with the ability to access studio level resolution music files (Tidal) is a wonder.  So the message is, if you have older Fuseliers and look long and hard enough, they can be resurrected.  Every time I sit down for thirty minutes to listen to them, three hours later I am still truly amazed!

Hi srdowney,

I'm from Acworth, Ga. and I have a pair of the Fuselier 3.3d speakers. I was wondering if you knew what the difference is between the 3.3d and the Model 5.Cosmedically speaking the only difference I could see is that they rounded the four corners of the midrange faceplate and added another horizontal brace behind the top tweeter.

Wow! Just found this thread. I have an old set of Fuselier 5s, one of which I believe needs a woofer replacement. Any ideas where I can get one (or maybe 2)?