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| Vintage Infinity Quantum speakers and the Geo Metro; Why high end vintage speakers can keep your interior safe! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 14 2015, 01:32 PM (442 Views) | |
| supercrust | Jul 14 2015, 01:32 PM Post #1 |
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Many years ago, I traded a Leslie rotating speaker for a vintage set of really cool Infinity Quantum-3 high-end speakers. Here's a few of the many things I learned from this experience: 1. Never use an under-powered amp to power anything outside of its power capacity. 2. Planar transducers (in my case flat ribbon tweeters) are super fragile. 3. Old Infinities are super needy and fragile no matter what you put through them power-wise. 4. Replacement Watkins dual voice coil woofers are still serviced in Kentucky in the barn of the guy that built them. 5. Replacement or repairs on dual voice coil woofers are way too expensive. 6. Sometimes it's better to burn things that hoard them. Fortunately, I found an Infinity nut on Craigslist who wanted what was left. Most importantly: 7. The pile of rare-earth planar transducer magnets stuck to my to my tool box every time they blew turns out to be ideal for tarping our open-back Metro. I'm finally getting my money back! Yay! Dry carpet! Maybe I'll put the drain plugs back in. Eh, no, forget it. |
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| supercrust | Jul 14 2015, 01:35 PM Post #2 |
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Before anyone says anything, it wasn't one of the good Leslies. While I have a vintage non-b3 Hammond, I am more of a "run it through a distorted tube amp a la Jon Lord" guy than a " that classic whirling and churning Leslie sound" guy. The Leslie was one of the drum-only types that came inside a piece of living-room furniture. |
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| 2000Firefly1.3L | Jul 14 2015, 01:55 PM Post #3 |
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Hehehhe
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| ZXTjato | Jul 14 2015, 02:11 PM Post #4 |
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bass heads
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those 2 stereos on the lower right, those are the pioneer SX-(//) right? i love my 10-10 |
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| supercrust | Jul 14 2015, 02:37 PM Post #5 |
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I've got at least two of the amps in that picture, a 9090 and the black Sansui 3d from the bottom in the center. Total investment: $10 |
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| Car Nut | Jul 14 2015, 04:19 PM Post #6 |
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You've got some really nice vintage equipment there. I used to own some of those models back in the day. Way back in the day.
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| 68custom | Jul 14 2015, 06:22 PM Post #7 |
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The EMIT equipped infinity's were very nice speakers which required amps stable into low impedance loads. the Watkins woofers were also very good. sounds like the set you have is trashed, to bad.. |
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