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chance to get some fisher ds-710

Postby nyazzip » Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:08 pm

there is a pair local for 50$....wondering if they would be any good. rated 30 w RMS, 10" woofer and a tweeter. i'm thinking they should be similar to the Dynaco a25(which i have grown to really appreciate)
anyone know anything about them?
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Postby Ty_Bower » Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:34 am

I'd expect them to be of much lower quality than the A25. They appear to be a cheap, mass market, bass reflex design. The tweeter looks to be a cheap 3" paper cone. It's probably the sort of speaker you would have given to your teenager in the 1980's.

Of course, if they are local perhaps you have the opportunity to listen to them before you buy. Maybe bring your amp over to the seller's place and spend an hour or two. You might even turn the seller over to tubes. [:)
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Postby nyazzip » Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:47 pm

i'll take your advice and stay away from them. i don't need any more junque around here :|
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Postby antiquekid3 » Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:42 pm

I'd definitely recommend listening to them if you can. That's what I did with my Klipsch Heresy Is. It's how I discovered that they'd need new woofers and tweeter diaphragms. I bought them anyways since they were so cheap.

If they are the right price, they might be useful as dummy loads! ;)

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Postby snitch56 » Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:47 am

I tend to stay away from any speaker with those shiny silver dust caps. That just screams 80's mid-fi to me. Just like blue LED's scream made in China.
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Postby nyazzip » Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:09 am

JBL instrument speakers had aluminum dustcaps in the '70s-'80s, and they now command huge bucks !
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Postby snitch56 » Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:04 am

nyazzip wrote:JBL instrument speakers had aluminum dustcaps in the '70s-'80s, and they now command huge bucks !


I am referring to the thin, polyethylene terephthalate type dustcaps. The shiny silver ones.
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Postby Ty_Bower » Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:36 pm

snitch56 wrote:I am referring to the thin, polyethylene terephthalate type dustcaps. The shiny silver ones.


Is that the same stuff they use to make potato chip bags? Kinda silvery metallic, and if it's thin enough you can see right through it?
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Postby nyazzip » Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:00 pm

potato chip bags and helium balloons=mylar? anywho, i always figured the shiny silver dustcaps were just very thin aluminum. this has gotten rather off topic hasn't it :))
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