Bought a pair of these yesterday. Looking forward to restoring them. Having said that, they seem in very good condition. Does anybody have any information of these. When were they made, driver set up...? The 'condenser' I can see has '1943' on it. Surely, this isn't the date the speakers were made?
Wartime surplus capacitor? Also, highly unlikely there was anyone was building hifi during WWII. 😉
jeff
Pictures of the inside. Well familiar with the TTs (we sold 100s), but never knew there was a loudspeaker.
More pictures? Is there a deflector behind the grill? What driver?
On the face of it looks like an end loaded TL much like the EPI microTower and the Tribute one seen often here. What does teh terminus (ie the bottom) of the pipe look like>
dave
More pictures? Is there a deflector behind the grill? What driver?
On the face of it looks like an end loaded TL much like the EPI microTower and the Tribute one seen often here. What does teh terminus (ie the bottom) of the pipe look like>
dave
A.R. Sugden & Co. Ltd., Brighouse, Yorkshire.
During WW2, Arnold Sugden was setting up own engineering firm engaged in the manufacture of precision tools.
After the war he moved into designing pick-ups and making precision turntables.
I've never seen his Craftsman Major or Craftsman Minor omnidirectional speakers till now!
During WW2, Arnold Sugden was setting up own engineering firm engaged in the manufacture of precision tools.
After the war he moved into designing pick-ups and making precision turntables.
I've never seen his Craftsman Major or Craftsman Minor omnidirectional speakers till now!
The turntables were excellent and great value, I had one I bought from Encel Stereo in Melbourne; strange, but they never stocked or even mentioned the speakers. Unfortunately, I sold the TT when the suspension kits were discontinued - of course, another firm put out replacement kits a few years later!
Geoff
Geoff
Some information about A.R. Sugden, stereo pioneer:
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Hi-Fi-News-UK/IDX/80s/Hi-Fi-News-1981-10-IDX-59.pdf
https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Audio/Hi-Fi-News-UK/IDX/80s/Hi-Fi-News-1981-10-IDX-59.pdf
Now i’m confused. So we have 3 Sugdens? Or2?
J. E. Sugden
A.R. Sugden
The company that made the Connoisseur BD-1 was not the company that made the Class A amplifiers.
For your statements to line up with my understanding trhere would need to be 2 JE Sudden.
But impled in your pdf, and what i get with an IneterWeb search
OK, i see what happened. i thot you were replying to me in Post #10, i should pay better attention, duh.
I would like one of those amps thou. And blue would be my choice. And i wonder if the not very useful Tape out to a power amp in, with a snip on the PCB so that pre-out and power-in are disconnected .
dave
J. E. Sugden
A.R. Sugden
The company that made the Connoisseur BD-1 was not the company that made the Class A amplifiers.
For your statements to line up with my understanding trhere would need to be 2 JE Sudden.
But impled in your pdf, and what i get with an IneterWeb search
OK, i see what happened. i thot you were replying to me in Post #10, i should pay better attention, duh.
I would like one of those amps thou. And blue would be my choice. And i wonder if the not very useful Tape out to a power amp in, with a snip on the PCB so that pre-out and power-in are disconnected .
dave
Here are some more pictures as requested. From what I can tell they only have an 8" driver and a tweeter.
It must be a Craftsman Major then, because only that model had the tweeter (8" woofer, 2.5" tweeter).
The tweeter in your photo is firing downwards. Is it aiming into a conical diffuser to spread its output 360 degrees in the horizontal plane?
Here's some Yorkshire Triangle history:
Arnold Sugden was a proponent of omnidirectional column speakers and one of his local Hi-Fi colleagues was Gilbert Briggs of Wharfedale fame. Briggs first used a stereo tape recording made for him in 1955 by Sugden for one of Wharfedale's 'live versus recorded' events.
Briggs had witnessed Sugden's successful demonstrations of omnidirectional designs and decided to produce his first omnidirectional speaker, the Column Eight Cabinet, pictured below.
P.S. It would appear that your Craftsman Major is a rare survivor!
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Thanx.
Is there a partition that turns the pipe into a folded TL? Any damping?
I am curios to how the output of the tweeter gets to the outside world. Galu’s description makes sense, is it possible to get a photo of the deflector?
dave
The Wharfedale column designs incorporated an "acoustic filter" inserted one third of the way up to prevent organ pipe resonances.
The acoustic filter comprised of 1/16" slits spaced regularly apart in a horizontal wooden divider, as seen bottom right in the (large) attachment pertaining to an 8" column speaker.
Details can be found here: http://ukhhsoc.torrens.org/makers/Wharfedale/Concrete_LS_Construction_Plans/Page1.gif
