[Boatanchors] speaker advise wanted

[Jack Taylor]

Perhaps that was the speaker system called "Sweet Sixteen" which consisted
of 16 speakers
mounted in a plywood case.  I too built one of these and was amazed at the
lousy sound
coming out of the old Philco TV set.  Not a problem with the speakers but
the quality of
sound being transmitted in those days.

73 de Jack

----- Original Message -----
From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer@usol.com>
To: <N4ue@aol.com>; <boatanchors@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] speaker advise wanted


> Wasn't there a movie called "Cheaper By The Dozen"? (grin) Read my
personal post
> to you Ron, I am just teasing here.
>
> Do any of you old farts, (yea, that includes me), remember reading the
article
> in Popular Electronics? (might have been Electronics Illustrated) in the
late
> sixties about the wall of small speakers concept? This guy had perhaps a
dozen
> ofour inch speakers wired up to present quite an impressive sound and nice
> dispersion pattern. Hmmm. Wonder if those boys as Bose read this? (smirk)
>
> I built one of them and it did sound nice. It would have sounded even more
nice
> if I had anything decent to feed it with back then! I was busy trying to
hot
> wire and hop up old Motorola mono phonograph portable systems relatives
gave me.
> You know, push/pull 0 Parents tried to push them out of room into trash
while
> you tried to pull them back into the house!  I miss those days. Sigh. Now
I have
> lots of truly nice speakers in proper cabinets and only some overweight
dust
> bunnies to share the glorious sound with.
>
> Duane Fischer, W8DBF
>
>