[Boatanchors] OT EV Aristocrat cabinet

[Rob Atkinson]

I'd avoid eBay--you wind up in audiophool prices.

Also, I'd try to find an old cabinet with no speaker.  I have tried
the old EV 16 ohm coaxial speakers and was disappointed.  For ham
radio a cheap old full range 12 incher sounds way better.  The cabinet
doesn't have to be an EV.  That's just one I am familiar with and they
are common in the upper midwest US.  A lot of people must have bought
them as kits in the 1950s and now they are turning up in estate sales.

In fact, I learned this the hard way.  Originally I naively thought a
modern stereo type 3 way speaker would be great.  Wrong!  I brought
home a pair of heavy bulky modern JBL speakers I picked up at a garage
sale.  They were nice big speakers and probably great for a home hi-fi
system, but they turned out to be poor for HF ham radio.  These were
systems intended for audio from studio recording sources, and when
they were subjected to static, QRM, random bursts of band noise, AC
hum on signals, and other distortions, they reproduced a lot of
unwanted noise (high frequency hiss for one thing) and the big woofers
would occasionally go into low frequency oscillations.  I hauled them
to a hamfest and gave them away.  A cheap old 12 inch full range in a
large bass reflex cabinet was 100 times better for HF ham radio and
SWL.

I'll let it go at that.  This is supposed to be about a NC200 and its speaker.

73

Rob
K5UJ

>>
>> I just checked ebay for an Electrovoice Aristocrat cab and the cheapest
>> one I saw was 350.00 unloaded, with EV speaker one is going for 500.00.
>> Those old large bass reflex cabs are quite expensive nowadays.