Anyone know specs for peerless woofer?

[Jimmy154]

Peerless (india) SKO-130-PL-SH-8 5.25" Woofer / Midrange 4 ohm

Any one know the specs for this woofer? Is it similar to a woofer that the specs are known for? I can't measure specs myself i think

[Jimmy154]

[Jimmy154]

No one knows anything?

[kelticwizard]

I don't know about Peerless India, ostensibly a different company but still with some kind of ties to Peerless Denmark, but Peerless Denmark, when they custom make a driver, assigns it a part number. Even though the driver is made for one company only.

When that company stops making the model the driver was custom made for, the drivers get released on the surplus market with the Peerless number-but the specs are impossible to look up.

They were never made for public consumption, you see, so the specs are not published at all.

Have you considered measuring the Thiele-Small parameters yourself?

[kelticwizard]

For what it is worth, here is the contact page for Peerless India.

http://www.peerlessaudio.com/contact...n3.asp?cname=1

[Jimmy154]

Originally posted by kelticwizard
Have you considered measuring the Thiele-Small parameters yourself?

Yes, I think it would be complicated to measure the specs, no? I bought these woofers for a friend. They were cheap woofers to go into his car, but we did not get around to it, so I kept them. I would like to put them in a ported or TL type box. So I was wondering what the specs were.

I also have some Peerless tweeters to go with them and they're are both shielded, so I thought they would make good computer speakers. I built other speakers, but only use them for my computer and I can't put them next to it. So they are behind me, not optimium I would think.

They say Peerless Acoustics LTD. and then a address in Richboro, PA on the back. Which I reckon does not help.

Just saw your second post - that's the company that makes it. The woofer was measured in Voice Coil Magazine (I think that's the name) in August 1996, but it does not help much.

[kelticwizard]

Complicated to measure them. Maybe not.

A couple of questions.

I know you have built several speakers-did you ever get around to getting to know Speaker Workshop?

If not, do you have a multimeter?

How about a calibrated mike-Radio Shack SPL meter would do fine.

The mike and SPL meter are optional.

[Jimmy154]

Originally posted by kelticwizard

I know you have built several speakers-did you ever get around to getting to know Speaker Workshop?

If not, do you have a multimeter?

No, I gave up on Speaker Workshop. I think I needed a preamp for my mic maybe. I made a preamp with a battery and resistor (I think it was) and it work in audiotester for the woofer low end measurement. I did not get Speaker Workshop to work with the mic or battery and mic. I have a different Sound Card now; probably makes no difference though.

I have a crappy multimeter that is not digital.

[Feyz]

What you are looking is here:

http://www.mindspring.com/~audiolab/peerlspc.htm

You are very welcome

[kelticwizard]

Feyz:

How did you find that page?

I went all the way back to 2000 in archive.org, looking up Peerless India's home page, and still could not find those specs in the Peerless India homepage of 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. 2000 was the first year archive.org listed the Peerless India home page.

Great detective work!