Got some vintage stuff for free today

 

Bronze Member
Username: Huskermike

Post Number: 23
Registered: Aug-05
My girlfriend's father was cleaning out his basement today and found some speakers. He offered them to me for free, knowing I would take them off his hands.

He gave me three speakers: a great condition pair of vintage Electro-Voice SP8B 8" drivers, and a '60s-'70s 12" JBL Model D123 (the sticker says "James B. Lansing" and not JBL). It's got a dented dust cap, but otherwise is in good condition.

They all sound good, and they were free, so I can't complain. I think I'm going to work on making some cabinets for them and maybe use them with some old 12" RCA drivers that I got from his father awhile back.

If anyone's interested, I'll post some pics as I go.
 

Gold Member
Username: Artk

Albany, Oregon USA

Post Number: 6543
Registered: Feb-05
Very cool...pics would be nice..
 

Gold Member
Username: Nuck

Post Number: 9890
Registered: Dec-04
Pics are great, Mike
 

Platinum Member
Username: Jan_b_vigne

Dallas, TX

Post Number: 12361
Registered: May-04
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You got 12" RCA drivers from James B. Lansing's father?!!!


Geez, who woulda thought?
 

Gold Member
Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1832
Registered: Oct-04
I had no idea what JBL stood for until now.

Wikipedia is wonderful.
 

Silver Member
Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 724
Registered: Feb-07
Too bad he didn't have an old set of La Scalas down there in the basement...
 

Bronze Member
Username: Huskermike

Post Number: 24
Registered: Aug-05
Finally got around to getting some pictures up. Go to http://members.cox.net/mwk206/index.htm to see them, but be warned: I didn't have time to resize them before I uploaded, so for now each picture is ~1MB and there are seven on the page.

Also, there's only one dent in the JBL dust cap; I just got pictures from two different angles.
 

Gold Member
Username: Artk

Albany, Oregon USA

Post Number: 6561
Registered: Feb-05
That EV driver looks pretty cool.
 

Silver Member
Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 735
Registered: Feb-07
What kind of gear are you gonna be driving your newly acquired speakers with?
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