a few years back i found an old L100 hammond that had a bad tone generator, i sent the tone generator to scrap (made 40 cdn at a local metal recycler) kept the case amp and speakers intact complete with foot pedal volume control and sold it to someone for 200 as a unique TV stand the guy used it as his center channel in a home theatre!(not bad for a curbside find!)
ps don't tell my wife i found another one and i'm gonna do it again!
ps don't tell my wife i found another one and i'm gonna do it again!
well contemplate that next time your listening to music with a really "cool organ solo" (i'm an Emerson Lake & Palmer fan myself)
we hope to have stereo's with the ability to reproduce the sounds created by these exact type of driver's.
as DIY'er with a background in pro audio and MI service i think some of these drivers are contenders properly applied.
we hope to have stereo's with the ability to reproduce the sounds created by these exact type of driver's.
as DIY'er with a background in pro audio and MI service i think some of these drivers are contenders properly applied.
Sure, I love ELP too! (Listening to Works vol. 1 at the moment.) But to broaden my point a bit, I believe there are different equipment requirements for producing music, and reproducing it. Most of the organ stuff is designed for the former; and although it may sometimes work surprisingly well for the latter, one can't assume this will always be the case.
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Quoting Alan Young, R & D engineer for Hammond Organ Co. from 1946 - 1976, from the book "The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B," page 44:
"There is a gentle rolloff in the preamplifier response to minimize the key click...Furthermore, the highest frequency in this set of 91 tone wheels is 6 KHz. The speaker cones that we put in our Hammond cabinets were optimized to have a very sharp rolloff in the output above 6 KHz."
"There is a gentle rolloff in the preamplifier response to minimize the key click...Furthermore, the highest frequency in this set of 91 tone wheels is 6 KHz. The speaker cones that we put in our Hammond cabinets were optimized to have a very sharp rolloff in the output above 6 KHz."
your quote is a little out of context.
in the early developement stages of the B that's true, the engineers at Hammond tried all manner of things to minimize the "key pop" problem. that philosophy changed later as user's reported liking the percusive effect which was turned into a selectable feature. the fundemental of the top key is 5924.62Hz but the harmonics extend to the 8k range. besides which the B needs a Leslie we're talking L's and M's with the speakers built into the organ. not saying their top end is amazing either but in low to mid peformance some of these drivers are contenders.
in the early developement stages of the B that's true, the engineers at Hammond tried all manner of things to minimize the "key pop" problem. that philosophy changed later as user's reported liking the percusive effect which was turned into a selectable feature. the fundemental of the top key is 5924.62Hz but the harmonics extend to the 8k range. besides which the B needs a Leslie we're talking L's and M's with the speakers built into the organ. not saying their top end is amazing either but in low to mid peformance some of these drivers are contenders.
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It came from a Solina TL organ. Guessing mid 80's. Swiss.
My hearing is really messed up. Hence DIY. Never really found something that sound pleasing.
My speakers are great in my world, others may not think so
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They are tweaked to my ears. That's HIFI to me.
Tried it in an enclosure but works best in OB.
My hearing is really messed up. Hence DIY. Never really found something that sound pleasing.
My speakers are great in my world, others may not think so
.They are tweaked to my ears. That's HIFI to me.
Tried it in an enclosure but works best in OB.
Organ speaker are deliberately limited in HF response and have specs very much like other musical instrument speakers. They have high Qts, and very stiff suspensions. Some of the better ones are found in old Conn or Allen organs. Sizes found are the usual 15, 12 or 8 inch variety. Some of the best 6 X 9 drivers I experience were from a Conn set of what they called "pipe speakers". Most would work in the OBs of today with some careful equalization.
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