Hi guys,
I'm only posting this as I thought these mildly interesting, hence I bought them.
These apparently came out of a church and I presume there were more as they have variable autotransformers to balance output and transformers for 100v line use. The hanging hooks suggest one was mounted horizontally and the other vertically.
The drivers appear like new. I can't tell whether the surrounds are stiffer than original, however, and have not yet measured Fs.
I haven't yet fired them up as the wiring has been played with.
Ignore my file name I know they hardly qualify as line arrays...
I'm not sure what to do with them, but one of the drivers may go to a table FM radio I'm making...not so thrilling I know! ...but after I've played with them with the autotransformer removed and wired in series/parallel to test them as is in the box.
Cheers
Stuey
I'm only posting this as I thought these mildly interesting, hence I bought them.
These apparently came out of a church and I presume there were more as they have variable autotransformers to balance output and transformers for 100v line use. The hanging hooks suggest one was mounted horizontally and the other vertically.
The drivers appear like new. I can't tell whether the surrounds are stiffer than original, however, and have not yet measured Fs.
I haven't yet fired them up as the wiring has been played with.
Ignore my file name I know they hardly qualify as line arrays...
I'm not sure what to do with them, but one of the drivers may go to a table FM radio I'm making...not so thrilling I know! ...but after I've played with them with the autotransformer removed and wired in series/parallel to test them as is in the box.
Cheers
Stuey
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2 cabinets?
Nice looking vintage FE103. Lots of stuff you can do with them. But they do age. You probably want to T/S them to sort htem into pairs.
dave
Nice looking vintage FE103. Lots of stuff you can do with them. But they do age. You probably want to T/S them to sort htem into pairs.
dave
I would call these "line source" loudspeakers.
For those unfamiliar with such a driver arrangement:
The speakers are highly directional, projecting sound forward in a horizontal beam while attenuating the sound radiated to the sides and rear.
It's a configuration traditionally used for reducing wall, floor and ceiling reflections in halls or churches, thus increasing the intelligibility of speech.
P.S. Those Foster drivers do look interesting.
Yes, two cabinets Dave. The boxes are quite nice timber veneer despite looking like solid wood - but they're only chipboard underneath.
I'd previously seen your advice about the surrounds lifting on older Foster/Fostex drivers but on these examples luckily they are perfect, at least ignoring stiffness for the present. As I say, I'm not sure whether they've stiffened.
I played each driver in turn today and they sound really good. I left the back off and just sat the speaker box on a box of wine about 40cm tall, one channel only. Having not heard a similar paper coned wide ranger, I was really impressed with the beautiful cymbal, piano and voice reproduction (obviously limited in the low notes).
I take on board your suggestion about grading them as I bought them to use the drivers and not as they are in the box. However, before that I might have a play with them in this box, connected in series/parallel for 8 ohm, on top of a bass box to fill out the bottom end. The bass speaker must use another paper coned driver, I reckon. I have a pair of Peerless SLS 8 inchers that I could maybe use...
Thanks Galu, interesting information there.
I'd previously seen your advice about the surrounds lifting on older Foster/Fostex drivers but on these examples luckily they are perfect, at least ignoring stiffness for the present. As I say, I'm not sure whether they've stiffened.
I played each driver in turn today and they sound really good. I left the back off and just sat the speaker box on a box of wine about 40cm tall, one channel only. Having not heard a similar paper coned wide ranger, I was really impressed with the beautiful cymbal, piano and voice reproduction (obviously limited in the low notes).
I take on board your suggestion about grading them as I bought them to use the drivers and not as they are in the box. However, before that I might have a play with them in this box, connected in series/parallel for 8 ohm, on top of a bass box to fill out the bottom end. The bass speaker must use another paper coned driver, I reckon. I have a pair of Peerless SLS 8 inchers that I could maybe use...
Thanks Galu, interesting information there.
That would likely have been 2000-2002.
A. bit earlier FE103 with AlNiCo magnets, the ones in this thread are early ceramic magnet,
dave
A. bit earlier FE103 with AlNiCo magnets, the ones in this thread are early ceramic magnet,
dave
I've got 4 of the FE103 out of Dynacord 15/3 PA speakers, they had four of them per side. The speakers are from the mid to late 90s, the FE103 still work like new, no damage whatsoever despite PA use. Another company which used them in their 15/3 speakers was Zeck.
Sure.
The tweeter is a Beyma slot tweeter, the Beyma CP-21/F.
E: The bass is likely an EV
Yes, 15" woofer, probably a EV 15 E? Not sure which one, they changed drivers at the time without notice or change in model name.
At that time, the Dynacord and Zeck were the best sounding 15/3 on the market. The Beyma supertweeter got excellent resolution and the Fostex had a clean, natural and dynamic midrange with low distortion, the whole speaker got a very wide and even dispersion - unlike so many other PA speakers of the time.
E: And sorry, no, I don't have a Flammenwerfer. And my name is Frank, not Hans. 😉
E: And sorry, no, I don't have a Flammenwerfer. And my name is Frank, not Hans. 😉
Actually I had 2 different 4 driver vertical array (or mini array) similar to that one in the first pic.
one had fountek fe83 I think, and the other had vifa tg9.
They were very good for what they were.
No bass whatsoever, but ok for cello or voice stuff when baffle step circuited.....
@10', keep your ears between top and bottom driver.
20' you could be a foot above the top driver.
one had fountek fe83 I think, and the other had vifa tg9.
They were very good for what they were.
No bass whatsoever, but ok for cello or voice stuff when baffle step circuited.....
@10', keep your ears between top and bottom driver.
20' you could be a foot above the top driver.