YY1
Well-Known Member
It's time to play once again.
Not my dumpster this time but the church next door to where I've been working.
They were cleaning out their storage building.
On day one I got four 4" electrical boxes, each with a recep and cover, strung together with 5 foot sections of 1/2" EMT and an LB on the end and wired.
I was just about ready to buy almost the exact same group to add one or two recep circuits to my new shop. Estimated retail value- $50
On day two I got these 12" PA speakers! dirty and dented/ripped grilles but they cleaned up real nice and even the grilles hammered out good.
Name plates are missing but they are clean on the inside and the numbers on the woofers (with heavy magnets) indicate Eminence brand. Horns have "P.Audio" labels. Each are rated at 250 watts!
I wasn't sure I had anything that would drive those and be respectable, so I stopped at a few pawn shops and thrift stores while I was out.
Scored this 125 watt per channel Sony receiver with heavy binding post speaker connections for $15 at Salvation Army.
Had to make one modification on the speakers- the connectors were 1/4" phono jack, so I removed the covers and crimped on some #14 speaker wire with suitcase connectors and fed the wire through one of the dual phono jacks.
So far everything works. Volume on setting 4 (of 10) will allow you to hear them out past the garage and my tests (again, on 4) with "Burnin Down The House" and "Down In It" will literally move the bones in your chest if you are directly in front of the speakers!
Did I mention fully configurable 7.1 channel surround?
I need another vintage stereo system like another hole in the head, but...
SCORE!
Not my dumpster this time but the church next door to where I've been working.
They were cleaning out their storage building.
On day one I got four 4" electrical boxes, each with a recep and cover, strung together with 5 foot sections of 1/2" EMT and an LB on the end and wired.
I was just about ready to buy almost the exact same group to add one or two recep circuits to my new shop. Estimated retail value- $50
On day two I got these 12" PA speakers! dirty and dented/ripped grilles but they cleaned up real nice and even the grilles hammered out good.
Name plates are missing but they are clean on the inside and the numbers on the woofers (with heavy magnets) indicate Eminence brand. Horns have "P.Audio" labels. Each are rated at 250 watts!
I wasn't sure I had anything that would drive those and be respectable, so I stopped at a few pawn shops and thrift stores while I was out.
Scored this 125 watt per channel Sony receiver with heavy binding post speaker connections for $15 at Salvation Army.
Had to make one modification on the speakers- the connectors were 1/4" phono jack, so I removed the covers and crimped on some #14 speaker wire with suitcase connectors and fed the wire through one of the dual phono jacks.
So far everything works. Volume on setting 4 (of 10) will allow you to hear them out past the garage and my tests (again, on 4) with "Burnin Down The House" and "Down In It" will literally move the bones in your chest if you are directly in front of the speakers!
Did I mention fully configurable 7.1 channel surround?
I need another vintage stereo system like another hole in the head, but...
SCORE!
Score!
