RCA MI 9449 for Steve Schells Museum

[hmolwitz]

No affiliation or reward, currently @$60

http://cgi.ebay.com/1-vintage-RCA-9449-15-alnico-speaker-woofer_W0QQitemZ300075794207QQihZ020QQcategoryZ505 97QQcmdZViewItem

[Steve Schell]

Thank you for thinking of me, hmolwitz. I have a couple of MI-9449s with trashed cones in the shed, as well as some of the slightly earlier MI-9444 field coil woofers.

The auction driver has been reconed. These drivers originally had a very light, thin cone whose surface was covered with fine concentric corrugations. Very nice woofers, though it is hard to find one with a good original cone.

[hmolwitz]

I'll keep looking, I know you favor this stuff when you aren't building your own.
How is your bass compression driver going?
I would love to hear that.
Harry

[Steve Schell]

Hi Harry,

Thanks. I'm always on the lookout, especially for Lansing, RCA or other field coil theatre gear.

We have finalized the design of the DS-1448 bass compression driver, and are in small scale production. We just took delivery of 20 top plates, which should last us a little while at least.