This speaker had been sitting on Gumtree for months, so I thought I may as well give it a try. I know that Wharfedale doesn't have the best reputation among some speaker aficionados, but a lot of people seem to do just fine with them, and it did tick a few boxes for me: It was cheap, made in England in the sixties and it was pulled from a Vase Split Sound, which is a very rare amplifier from my hometown (so rare that I've never seen one).
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Split Sound would have been pretty fancy back in the day, so I'm guessing that this must have been considered a better than average speaker - at least by the folks at Vase, or the person that bought it.
Anways, I'll find out soon enough myself, once I load up into an amp and give it a run.
12" speaker
Ceramic magnet
15 watt RMS, 30 peak
10 - 15 ohms
Maybe from 1966
40hz to 17khz which is very hi-fi for a guitar speaker
I think it is inscribed I/W12 EG and what looks like 5/66 with chinagraph pencil.
It has a strange green felt surround that is starting to deteriorate a little, but it's holding on OK. As you can see, there were a few cracks / tears / small punctures in the cone. The damage is small and localised, so not a concern. The rest looks and feels very solid.
Yes it has a 'whizzer' cone, which is something a few speakers used to have to try and extend the upper frequency range.
I really like the big speaker wire connections, although I do prefer good solder joins myself for reliability.
The speaker cab instructions are interesting - who has speaker cabs rocking sand filled walls these days? That's some serious deadening / mass going on there.
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