What speaker manufacturers use Peerless components?

PoorSound · 13th December 2006, 06:17 PM

Anyone know? i heard Acoustic Research somewhere...dont' remember where though. the old Koss speakers used to use Peerless. what else is out there?

K-amps · 13th December 2006, 06:37 PM

Definitive Tech and NHT that I know of.

Jonathan Bright · 13th December 2006, 07:23 PM

Not sure if you mean now or in the past. If it is the past then I'm pretty confident that Bang and Olufsen used some as bass units and 20 yrs ago the tweeter in some POLK speakers had a driver that looked a lot like the old 1" Peerless dome. I've got a suspicion that nearly 30 yrs ago that tweeter was used by KLH in a three-way. I think a small UK outfit called Nightingale (NM1 along with an Isophone tweeter) used the sealed back midrange in a KEF based tranmission line around that time. I'll look up my old "Hi Fi Choice" booklets and check these out later in the week. GALE (not Nightingale) also had the 5" mid in one of their models.....the 301 I think. EAGLE a UK company used them in a three-way...Model L6600.

qwad · 13th December 2006, 07:39 PM

also dont forget the old omni direction sonabs of the 70/s that used peerless woofers and cone tweeters

also the early gales [ the ones with chrome end caps] used twin 8 in woofers and the sealed back mid range combined with a celestion hf 2000 tweeter...... a top speaker in its day and even run rings around todays stuff

cheers
TC

SY · 13th December 2006, 07:54 PM

Dynaco, the classic A25.

nuppe · 13th December 2006, 07:57 PM

ADAM uses Peerless drivers in their P33A and P11A monitors (the link is to a subpage, so you can't navigate very well). Not sure if they are (or were) official models, they might have been custom-built for ADAM. I've also seen these (or at least very similar) drivers in another brand of monitors, but the name escapes me...

/Andreas

Jonathan Bright · 13th December 2006, 09:14 PM

Add to these the UK Audiomaster Image 2 (tweeter only) the KLH refered to earlier was the CL4 it had two or three Peerless drivers. At least the mid and high units but I can't tell if the woofer is or not .......probably was. BTW PoorSound, I'm just curios, why do you want to know?

PoorSound · 13th December 2006, 10:02 PM

i was just curious. I've seen certain speakers that have drivers that look very similar to the peerless ones and have always wondered. I built some DIY Peerless speakers and i'm just interested in them.

I'm really surprised that NHT uses Peerless components. cool!

Jonathan Bright · 13th December 2006, 10:40 PM

Fair enough. I think it was easier to do this sort of exercise 20-30 yrs ago. There were less cheap copies around and "if it looked like a duck" then in those days it probably was a duck. Not necessarily so now. I guess you also get a stacks of Spam advertising various item. I've had several recently promoting "genuine imitation Rolex watches". That is a new high in product disclosure statements. You've got to love it. I've also had DIY Peerless stuff. Only tweeters and mids. In Aust' in the early 70's it was only really them, Phillips and KEF for those with gainful employment. Very different situation now.

Jonasz · 13th December 2006, 11:08 PM

QWAD: Don't laugh about the Carlssons. They have a dedicated following in Sweden and considered very good. There are though some more modern designs available that cooperates with the room.

http://www.carlssonplanet.com/forum/

13th December 2006, 06:17 PM	#1
PoorSound diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: brandon	What speaker manufacturers use Peerless components? Anyone know? i heard Acoustic Research somewhere...dont' remember where though. the old Koss speakers used to use Peerless. what else is out there?

13th December 2006, 07:23 PM	#3
Jonathan Bright diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Queensland	Not sure if you mean now or in the past. If it is the past then I'm pretty confident that Bang and Olufsen used some as bass units and 20 yrs ago the tweeter in some POLK speakers had a driver that looked a lot like the old 1" Peerless dome. I've got a suspicion that nearly 30 yrs ago that tweeter was used by KLH in a three-way. I think a small UK outfit called Nightingale (NM1 along with an Isophone tweeter) used the sealed back midrange in a KEF based tranmission line around that time. I'll look up my old "Hi Fi Choice" booklets and check these out later in the week. GALE (not Nightingale) also had the 5" mid in one of their models.....the 301 I think. EAGLE a UK company used them in a three-way...Model L6600. __________________ "It was the Spring time of the year when aunt calls to aunt like mastodons across the frozen waste." P.G. Wodehouse.

13th December 2006, 07:39 PM	#4
qwad diyAudio Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: adelaide city of churches	also dont forget the old omni direction sonabs of the 70/s that used peerless woofers and cone tweeters also the early gales [ the ones with chrome end caps] used twin 8 in woofers and the sealed back mid range combined with a celestion hf 2000 tweeter...... a top speaker in its day and even run rings around todays stuff cheers TC __________________ we all have problems only some people have more than most.... long live the Magyar (Hungarians) in the world!

13th December 2006, 07:54 PM	#5
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13th December 2006, 07:57 PM	#6
nuppe diyAudio Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Gothenburg	ADAM uses Peerless drivers in their P33A and P11A monitors (the link is to a subpage, so you can't navigate very well). Not sure if they are (or were) official models, they might have been custom-built for ADAM. I've also seen these (or at least very similar) drivers in another brand of monitors, but the name escapes me... /Andreas __________________ "We can't stop here, this is bat country!" - Hunter S. Thompson


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13th December 2006, 06:37 PM	#2
K-amps diyAudio Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Indiana	Definitive Tech and NHT that I know of.

13th December 2006, 09:14 PM	#7
Jonathan Bright diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Queensland	Add to these the UK Audiomaster Image 2 (tweeter only) the KLH refered to earlier was the CL4 it had two or three Peerless drivers. At least the mid and high units but I can't tell if the woofer is or not .......probably was. BTW PoorSound, I'm just curios, why do you want to know? __________________ "It was the Spring time of the year when aunt calls to aunt like mastodons across the frozen waste." P.G. Wodehouse.

13th December 2006, 10:02 PM	#8
PoorSound diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: brandon	i was just curious. I've seen certain speakers that have drivers that look very similar to the peerless ones and have always wondered. I built some DIY Peerless speakers and i'm just interested in them. I'm really surprised that NHT uses Peerless components. cool!

13th December 2006, 10:40 PM	#9
Jonathan Bright diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Queensland	Fair enough. I think it was easier to do this sort of exercise 20-30 yrs ago. There were less cheap copies around and "if it looked like a duck" then in those days it probably was a duck. Not necessarily so now. I guess you also get a stacks of Spam advertising various item. I've had several recently promoting "genuine imitation Rolex watches". That is a new high in product disclosure statements. You've got to love it. I've also had DIY Peerless stuff. Only tweeters and mids. In Aust' in the early 70's it was only really them, Phillips and KEF for those with gainful employment. Very different situation now. __________________ "It was the Spring time of the year when aunt calls to aunt like mastodons across the frozen waste." P.G. Wodehouse.

13th December 2006, 11:08 PM	#10
Jonasz diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Kristinehamn	QWAD: Don't laugh about the Carlssons. They have a dedicated following in Sweden and considered very good. There are though some more modern designs available that cooperates with the room. http://www.carlssonplanet.com/forum/

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