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Default Pioneer CS-99a speakers-need info


Sander deWaal discerned:

Charlie Nudo's usual tricks.


What happened, Charlie? Didn't get any traction on the High End NG?
Don't like the Antique Radio NG anymore? Got lumped in with Middius,
McCoy & assorted sockpuppets on the Tubes NG?

Face the facts (such as you are able): You get those speakers for
junk-prices because they are junk. No amount of wishful thinking on
your part will make them more than junk. No amount of verbal gymnastics
will make them even barely passable as speakers.

But to answer the original question:

Sensitivity is 97dB/1watt/1meter. 15" woofers, pair of 6" cone
midrange, pair of 2" cone tweeters, and some sort of piezo horn. Age is
~1975. Crap then, crap now. Yeah, real wood cabinets, but these guys
went straight at the Heavy Bass crowd too cheap to buy Cerwin Wega
(also pretty crappy speakers) without even their limited reference to
any level of fidelity or clarity. They are extremely directional.
Primitive multi-way crossovers.

These were designed as much of the speakers crawling out of the Pacific
of the time to be matched to their electronics... significant as they
measured output in "Music Power" and "IPP" vs. RMS, and measured
distortion at 2% or more. Also elided any reference to damping factor
and so forth. Accordingly, the speakers had to be very noisy at low
actual power ratings.

Winter is coming... their potential for firewood is greater than their
potential for good sound, though not by much. You would probably get
more mileage selling the individual drivers than for the entire lump...
so firewood may be the more lucrative option.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA