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Title: 30" EV's
Post by: elwoodblue on January 09, 2012, 01:36:47 PM

neato...
 
ebay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/260922641913#ht_500wt_1141 target=_blank)

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: benson_murrensun on January 09, 2012, 01:51:50 PM

Cabinet by Tuff-Shed?

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: elwoodblue on January 09, 2012, 02:30:26 PM

hehe...LOL

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on January 09, 2012, 05:59:04 PM

I WANT!!!!
 
Peter

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: sonicus on January 09, 2012, 06:26:38 PM

One could crawl inside and have the ultimate visceral Bass  Experience ! Perhaps might be good for your circulation as well .

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: fmm on January 09, 2012, 08:12:09 PM

I?ve got some experience with those speakers.  In the late 70s I worked for an audio shop in Dubuque, IA called Great Sounds Audio.  It?s still there.  It?s in a small 2-story house.  At that time, the store occupied half of the second floor (the other half was an apartment), my boss lived in half of the lower floor, and the other half was the office for the adjoining 6-room motel.
 
We carried EV home stereo speakers.  If the dealer catalog, the biggest speaker was the EV 30 W.  30? across, the speaker cone is made of ?? thick Styrofoam.  At the time, this was the most efficient speaker in the world in terms of converting electrical energy to acoustic energy.  The cabinets for these things were the size of china hutches, about 10 feet tall.  We actually sold 2 pairs of these behemoths.
 
As an aside, we did several installations of 20? and larger speakers into the walls of listening rooms.  The adjoining room served as the enclosure.  I don?t recall ever doing this with the EV 30s.
 
Anyway, EV didn?t sell a lot of these, and had to do something with them.  So as a dealer incentive, they removed the magnets and the voice coils, attached a set of legs, a round Plexiglas top with the EV logo, and packaged it with 4 EV directors chairs.  If you purchase $6,000 worth of product, you?d get a table and chair set.
 
My boss decided he needed 6 sets, so he orders many thousands of dollars worth of speakers.  Probably more product than we had sold in the prior 18 months.  He tells me nothing of this.
 
One afternoon the truck shows up with many many many speakers, which the driver kindly deposited at the back of the truck.  I was working alone, and had to cart these boxes into the store, stacking them in the bosses living area.  When the boss arrived, he decided to rent a storage space rather than sleep with the boxes, so I got to move them all twice in 1 day.
 
I visited the store last month; he still has one EV table set left at the store, and another at his house.

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: sonicus on January 09, 2012, 08:21:04 PM

Great Story !  it takes me back to the days when I worked at CBS Specialty Stores AKA  Pacific Stereo.

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: sonicus on January 09, 2012, 08:32:50 PM

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/395/120688.jpg)
 
 
 
 
ALTEC A2  
System   A bass reflex system  with 4 /15's
 
(Message edited by sonicus on January 09, 2012)

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: dadabass2001 on January 10, 2012, 05:53:56 AM

Oh look! A Roar Of The Theatre system...  
Mike

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Post by: lbpesq on January 10, 2012, 07:38:14 AM

How big were those giant speakers at Bag End when we had the gathering in Chicago?
 
Bill, tgo

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Post by: speicky on January 10, 2012, 08:19:00 AM

if I remember correctly, BagEnd had 21s... and they sure shook the ground  
 
Christian

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Post by: David Houck on January 10, 2012, 08:21:24 AM

Great story Michael!

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Post by: pauldo on January 10, 2012, 11:13:16 AM

Christian is right - 21's - 4 of them.  
I still can't stop grinning when I think about them! :-)
 
(Message edited by pauldo on January 10, 2012)

Title: 30" EV's
Post by: benson_murrensun on January 10, 2012, 01:07:11 PM

The adjoining room served as the enclosure.
 
Good use of space. I love it. I guess you could open some windows and make it an open-back cabinet.