Realistic Optima t-100's

[postman]

Realistic Optima t-100's

Yeh are these speakers any good ??
i know theyre really old but yeh 🙂
got a pair for 25 dollars aus

If not would the drivers be suitable quality for use in another project ?

any info on them or help is much appreciated 🙂

 

[planet10]

Realistic Optima t-100's

How do thry sound?

Have you pulled the back off (or the drivers out) to see if they are alnico?

dave

 

[postman]

i havent actually gone and picked them up yet.. just wanna know if theyre any good 🙂

basically all i know is they have 2 8" drivers and a tweeter..

as i sed any help is very much appreciated

thanks for posting planet10 🙂

 

[mrfeedback]

.....are these speakers any good ??

Postman,
Can you post a picture?.
Most such speakers can be improved cheaply quite nicely and easily by replacing electrolytic crossover caps with Polypropylene caps bridged with lower value ceramics, adjusting levels to the tweeters and adjusting amount and type of internal damping, or even adding internal bracings.
Without too much cost or effort you can improve them and learn at the same time.

Eric.

 

[Tall Shadow]

Realistic Speakers

Hey All!,

Last I looked, Radio Shack(Ratio Hack) speakers were all(Mostly) Pioneer drivers. Not bad, not great. They did make a few that were/are quite popular for using in QWTP (Voigt Pipes).

Ye-Ha!
Tall Shadow

 

[planet10]

Re: Realistic Speakers

Radio Shack(Ratio Hack) speakers were all(Mostly) Pioneer drivers.

With the number of their drivers i've seen sourced from Foster, this should be amended to some. I have also seen Coral drivers in them.

dave

 

[postman]

Yes im going to pick them up today .
I will post some pics (wont be too good quality cause of dodgey cam) .. So there is hope for them after all ay 🙂 ?

 

[Tall Shadow]

I would guess that R.S. has used/is using many brands of drivers over the years. I would also guess that these brands might even change from country to country. I have used Their musical instrument speakers for replacements in some amp stacks, but I've never used any of Their other speakers. The musical speakers were OK, and were fine for an inexpensive amp replacement speaker. I was somewhat suprized that the Radio Shack 5 1/4" full range was/is a sought after speaker for the QWTP/Voigt speaker crowd.

Cheers!
Tall Shadow

 

[planet10]

I was somewhat suprized that the Radio Shack 5 1/4" full range was/is a sought after speaker for the QWTP/Voigt speaker crowd.

The RS40-1354 giant killer. I haven't figured out who the OEM for those was, but the other RS gk the 40-1197 is OEMed by Foster.

dave