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Anyone recognise these drivers?

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Premiumverum Posted: Thu, Dec 12 2013 1:31 PM

Seller says they are B&O, tweeter looks like it's from a beolab 6000 or 8000. The woofer, I don't know! And that little grille and capacitor... ?!

Are these B&O drivers?

 

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9 LEE replied on Thu, Dec 12 2013 1:55 PM

The metal shrouding on the rear of the speakers points to Avant for me..

Not sure what those grilles are for though!

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tournedos replied on Thu, Dec 12 2013 2:26 PM

The metal shrouding indeed suggests that they are magnetically protected drivers from a TV. In addition to some Avants, those same kind of tweeters are used in AV9000 and MX7000 so these could be from there. I have no explanation for the grilles, though, and the caps look like some fancy pansy audiophile caps instead of bog regular bipolars that B&O tends to install...

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Magnetically shielded? Learning new stuff all the time. I checked the Avant service manual, they look just like the ones in the drawing there. Tweeters are a different part number from the beolab tweeters.

The caps looks like F&T electrolytics, these are rather small bipolars with raw foil.

And the grilles, maybe for some kind of bass port.

Thanks for the assistance guys!Big Smile

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Jeff replied on Thu, Dec 12 2013 3:34 PM

And you'd only need a shielded speaker on a tube TV, flat panels don't have the magnetic field issue CRTs did. 

Jeff

I'm afraid I'm recovering from the BeoVirus. Sad

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Beobuddy replied on Fri, Dec 13 2013 9:27 PM

What's the diameter of the woofer? BL6000 are 9 cm (but aren't the same as these) . MX 7000 has 9 cm.

Avant/BV5 have 10 cm.

My guess is they are from a avant. The shape of the chassis looks the same.

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