I agree with DJK, looks like an OEM EV Force 12.
They were designed primarily as a musical instrument speaker, lots of built in harmonic distortion, and very little linear excursion.
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Cool, thanks guys. Looks like I came to the right forum!
Specs look like it should be fine for a floor monitor. Hate to see a decent woofer go unused.
Thanks again.
Specs look like it should be fine for a floor monitor. Hate to see a decent woofer go unused.
Thanks again.
Tyson,
I used some Force 10 for PA with a HF horn coming in around 1500 Hz, to get the vocals to sound clean had to cross the 10 in at 500Hz.
I'd suggest selling it to a guitar player that will appreciate the distortion the speaker is designed to make.
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The info provided by Weltersys says that is made for sound reinforcement systems, and EV made a line of PA cabs with these woofers if my research is correct.....
Par for the course. This is why textbook crossovers (including those with op amps and front panel knobs) don't do so well. I used some Delta 10's that I apply filters that are 6dB/oct at 600 Hz and and additional 12db/oct around 2k to get an acoustic crossover to the horn at 2.2k - where a D210 likes it. Apply just a 12dB crossover ANYWHERE and the screech will run you out of the room - and 24dB sounds phasey. The proper crossover is about as smooth as an un-eq'ed PA speaker gets. The Force 10's breakup is probably worse. EVM10 is bad enough that I did give up. Great in a horn loaded kick bin where the peak gets filtered, however.
The EVM series had very low distortion when compared to the Force series, which designed it in. The Force were dirty even by guitar speaker standards.
The price made them popular, but they sound like garbage.
Low distortion in its passband. Low distortion drivers often require notch filters to clean them up (and I wasn't ready to go that far). When I saw the published curves I about **** myself - the screech was highly annoying and I finally found out why. The 15's and 18's didn't do that (any more than an Eminence or Pyle Driver).
The EV Force is what made the Pyle "Source" popular back then - the same price and they actually sounded good with minimal filters. I've never found a bass guitar speaker I liked as much as the old Source 18 with the 70 ounce. And they were decent cheap mobile DJ speakers, too.
The EV Force is what made the Pyle "Source" popular back then - the same price and they actually sounded good with minimal filters. I've never found a bass guitar speaker I liked as much as the old Source 18 with the 70 ounce. And they were decent cheap mobile DJ speakers, too.
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