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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?

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.

i'll take your advice and stay away from them. i don't need any more junque around here

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!

Kyle

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.

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

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.

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?

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