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  • just helped my bro with moving, and he gave me some wharfeldale mid-tops (i think they are mid-tops)

    they say 1500 peak watts

    just wondered what they are like (dont know much about speakers)

    Dunno what there like but can i have them?

    Ruff Beat Provider wrote:
    Dunno what there like but can i have them?

    ummm, ill hav to think about that

    thats the peak there prob bout 800w. warfdale are good didnt they get bought out by fane?

    MrAHC wrote:
    thats the peak there prob bout 800w. warfdale are good didnt they get bought out by fane?

    Fane are phatty!

    Ruff Beat Provider wrote:
    Fane are phatty!

    got fane loaded w bass bins:weee:

    Which Wharfedales are they (some were really good, some not so โ€“ the force 9โ€™s Wharfedale did are almost legendary now โ€“ really sweet clear sound, but really loud too)โ€ฆ

    And yes Wharfedale did get bought by Fane or at least their audio business didโ€ฆ. and Fane are as noted VERY phat (gonna be building a set of double loaded colossus bins at some point this winterโ€ฆ :weee: )

    ironically Wharfedale offshored their manufacturing to China โ€“ in part because the locals made such a fuss over the din the factory made testing speakers that they got fined thousands of pounds, making a dent in their profits โ€“ and people complain British industry isnโ€™t being supported :you_crazy

    they are LIX-15s of something like that with a CD something HF driver and a 15 inch boombastic in the bottom

    Playground Politics wrote:
    and a 15 inch boombastic in the bottom

    Ah the boombastic, made of course by the legend himself Mr Boombastic

    CD is constant directivity โ€“ means the top end will have a horn flare that has a specification for the spread it achieves โ€“ also means it is a fairly powerful top end (most big rigs use these โ€“ ours currently has a pair powered by 2โ€ณ throat rigid driver).

    The 15โ€™s will likely be fairly decent drivers (if they take a 1500W peak, then theyโ€™re likely to be somewhere around 400W RMS).

    I assume the boxes will be ported radiators (the 15โ€™s radiate directly โ€“ ie you can see the speaker cone from the front), in which case they are likely to be pretty good speakers (most of Wharfedales later radiator designs are based on the same design as the force 9โ€™s)โ€ฆ. Theyโ€™re full range btw, not mid/topsโ€ฆ

    All in all a pretty good set of boom boxes by the sound of itโ€ฆ You should say thank you very much to your broโ€ฆ:weee:

    Raj wrote:
    CD is constant directivity โ€“ means the top end will have a horn flare that has a specification for the spread it achieves โ€“ also means it is a fairly powerful top end (most big rigs use these โ€“ ours currently has a pair powered by 2โ€ณ throat rigid driver).

    The 15โ€™s will likely be fairly decent drivers (if they take a 1500W peak, then theyโ€™re likely to be somewhere around 400W RMS).

    I assume the boxes will be ported radiators (the 15โ€™s radiate directly โ€“ ie you can see the speaker cone from the front), in which case they are likely to be pretty good speakers (most of Wharfedales later radiator designs are based on the same design as the force 9โ€™s)โ€ฆ. Theyโ€™re full range btw, not mid/topsโ€ฆ

    All in all a pretty good set of boom boxes by the sound of itโ€ฆ You should say thank you very much to your broโ€ฆ:weee:

    i did say thanks indeed, pity both HF drivers the edge of the diaphragms where the copper coil has come away from the bowl of the diaphragms, im thinking of repairing them, instead of buying new โ€œphragmsโ€ with maybe some solvent sement or something

    Playground Politics wrote:
    i did say thanks indeed, pity both HF drivers the edge of the diaphragms where the copper coil has come away from the bowl of the diaphragms, im thinking of repairing them, instead of buying new โ€œphragmsโ€ with maybe some solvent sement or something

    You want rubber cement like for bicycle tyres or neoprene wetsuits [have fixed several drivers with this stuff and they are all still running [in one case 10 years later and after being in a hire rig for years]]

    Youโ€™ve fixed CD diaphragms like that? How do they soundโ€ฆ.usually the slightest knock and they are bolloxed.

    Not CD diaphragms per se โ€“ I am not sure without looking at them if I would try and fix these ones.

    [I have fixed multiple drivers where through accidents we have wound up with holes in them and rubber cement is the best thing for those jobs โ€“ we have one repaired driver in our current rig [it got damaged when a stack toppled though we still have no idea how that happened to this day] which sounds A1 or I would have retired it ]

    Maybe sourcing new drivers would be easier although I am naturally curious and would like to try it at least onceโ€ฆ.all of my other repairs were deemed to be driver write-offs before I fixed them ๐Ÿ˜‰

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