Re: Wayback machine...Anybody remember the Original EV Eliminators?

[Don Cooper]

I'd vote for:

> 2. Throw in a set of 15" drivers and use them as PA subs (for a
> rehearsal PA)


Don

[Pooh Bear]

Don Cooper wrote:

> I'd vote for:
>
> > 2. Throw in a set of 15" drivers and use them as PA subs (for a
> > rehearsal PA)

Nah, the horn cutoff freq is too high - about 70 Hz IIRC.

Graham

[hank alrich]

Analogeezer wrote:

> They were well ahead of my time

They let the sound out of my first PS, assembled according to guidelines
in a _Downbeat_ article called something like "Why You Can't Hear the
Vocals". It was a start.

--
ha

[Don Cooper]

Pooh Bear wrote:

> Nah, the horn cutoff freq is too high - about 70 Hz IIRC.

Well, given the choices that were listed.


Don

[Analogeezer]

(Iowa Recorder) wrote in message >...

<SNIP>

My house is turning into a speaker store
> room.
>
> IR

This is exactly what I'm trying to avoid <g>

Analogeezer

[Pooh Bear]

Don Cooper wrote:

> Pooh Bear wrote:
>
> > Nah, the horn cutoff freq is too high - about 70 Hz IIRC.
>
> Well, given the choices that were listed.

Ah - ok - lol

I fancy watching that link to see how much that pair on ebay make
though. They just might find a collector !

Graham

[Pooh Bear]

Analogeezer wrote:

> (Iowa Recorder) wrote in message >...
>
> <SNIP>
>
> My house is turning into a speaker store
> > room.
> >
> > IR
>
> This is exactly what I'm trying to avoid <g>

Hmmm - funny you should say that ! I used to keep my old wedges in a lock-up til I noticed one had got
woodworm ! Do I ever use them - well once every few yrs. Are they worth anything to anyone else ? Prolly not.
Kinda useful to have hanging around if you ever help someone out with sound though. As for the Sentry IVs :-)

Graham

[Analogeezer]

Pooh Bear > wrote in message >...
> Don Cooper wrote:
>
> > Pooh Bear wrote:
> >
> > > Nah, the horn cutoff freq is too high - about 70 Hz IIRC.
> >
> > Well, given the choices that were listed.
>
> Ah - ok - lol
>
> I fancy watching that link to see how much that pair on ebay make
> though. They just might find a collector !
>
> Graham

Wow, guess what...it must be EV Eliminator I week on Ebay, up pops
another pair:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3710686045

I guess I got infatuated about this because after having the things
hanging around my house since about 1986 (actually three houses,
because I moved a lot during the 1980's) I had no idea they were
actually built to a design...I just figured some guy in his garage
slapped them together (well actually he probably did, but at least he
tried to copy an existing design).

Mine show no signs of ever having horns or crossovers in them though,
they were stricly for low end. At the time I also got these 1" horns
(SFW) and EV 1824M drivers, those are still hanging around too. That
must have made an interesting pair....no mids to speak of I guess, and
apparently not much in the way of lows either.

Ebay is great for unloading stuff (I've gotten rid of all my Alesis,
Digitech, and Peavey stuff over the last year) but big stuff it's not
so great for.

I've actually got a couple of E-140's, one not being used, the other
in a keyboard monitor I can pull; I might yank these and slap them in
my EV's just to see what they sound like.

If they sound like ass, I guess I'll relegate them to that same part
of the basement that holds my "vintage computers" and old car wheels
<g>

Analogeezer

[Scott Dorsey]

Bob Ross > wrote:
>
>(wistful sigh) When I was a wee teen we used to bike up to Gilsonite Music on Route 59 in Nanuet, NY and just
>drool over the E-V Eliminator cabinets they had there. Definitely brings back memories.
>
>Very. Old. Memories.

Recently I was running film in Boston. I brought a small 3 channel sound
system built with Radian coax drivers, along with some surround cabinets,
and the PA guys in the main hall were supposed to supply me with a rental
Mackie subwoofer. Optical sound track on the film through Dolby Surround
decoder.

When power was applied to the subwoofer, there was a loud thump and a bright
flash and it went dead. And the rental company was not open on weekends.

I wound up doing 12 shows with an EV Eliminator cabinet that belonged to
one of the PA guys in the main hall. It took some tinkering with a hacked
up Rane AC-22 and a lot of EQ to make it behave, but as long as you didn't
go below around 50 Hz it was okay. I got it set up so that it was inoffensive
on film soundtracks anyway. Never again.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Analogeezer]

Bob Ross > wrote in message >...
> (wistful sigh) When I was a wee teen we used to bike up to Gilsonite Music on Route 59 in Nanuet, NY and just
> drool over the E-V Eliminator cabinets they had there. Definitely brings back memories.
>
> Very. Old. Memories.
>
> /Bob Ross

With me it was going to Paragon Music in Tampa and drooling over Sunn
Coloseum bass stacks. What a cool name for an amp....Coloseum.

Must be nostalgia because now when you see those things on Ebay they
go for really stupid money.

BTW the first set of Eliminators:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3082443140&category=50597&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

Are up to $305 with 10 bids and over two days to go.

The 2nd set has a "But it Now" price of $349...heh, heh.

At over $300 a pair, somebody else must be sharing your wistful
nostalgia for the things <g>

Analogeezer

[Analogeezer]

(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message >...
> Bob Ross > wrote:
> >
> >(wistful sigh) When I was a wee teen we used to bike up to Gilsonite Music on Route 59 in Nanuet, NY and just
> >drool over the E-V Eliminator cabinets they had there. Definitely brings back memories.
> >
> >Very. Old. Memories.
>
> Recently I was running film in Boston. I brought a small 3 channel sound
> system built with Radian coax drivers, along with some surround cabinets,
> and the PA guys in the main hall were supposed to supply me with a rental
> Mackie subwoofer. Optical sound track on the film through Dolby Surround
> decoder.
>
> When power was applied to the subwoofer, there was a loud thump and a bright
> flash and it went dead. And the rental company was not open on weekends.
>
> I wound up doing 12 shows with an EV Eliminator cabinet that belonged to
> one of the PA guys in the main hall. It took some tinkering with a hacked
> up Rane AC-22 and a lot of EQ to make it behave, but as long as you didn't
> go below around 50 Hz it was okay. I got it set up so that it was inoffensive
> on film soundtracks anyway. Never again.
> --scott

Kind of funny (well maybe in retrospect) that a new Mackie blew up but
a 34 - 35 year old speaker worked all weekend for 12 shows. I guess
I'd assume the thing had been respeakered or reconed at some point.
What did you drive it with?

Analogeezer

[Scott Dorsey]

Analogeezer > wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message >...
>>
>> I wound up doing 12 shows with an EV Eliminator cabinet that belonged to
>> one of the PA guys in the main hall. It took some tinkering with a hacked
>> up Rane AC-22 and a lot of EQ to make it behave, but as long as you didn't
>> go below around 50 Hz it was okay. I got it set up so that it was inoffensive
>> on film soundtracks anyway. Never again.
>
>Kind of funny (well maybe in retrospect) that a new Mackie blew up but
>a 34 - 35 year old speaker worked all weekend for 12 shows. I guess
>I'd assume the thing had been respeakered or reconed at some point.
>What did you drive it with?

It was one of the QSC MX-series amps... I think it might have been an
MX-1000. It was whatever the PA guys had lying around.

Main speakers were driven through some baby Urei amplifiers.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Peter Larsen]

Pooh Bear wrote:

> Don Cooper wrote:

>> I'd vote for:

>>> 2. Throw in a set of 15" drivers and use them as PA subs (for a
>>> rehearsal PA)

> Nah, the horn cutoff freq is too high - about 70 Hz IIRC.

I second it anyway 'coz he will then get away with a 10" and a horn.

> Graham


Kind regards

Peter Larsen


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