Horn Fanatic
03-23-2014, 10:06 PM
Just this evening I found an auction for a fifties vintage Lansing speaker emblem. The seller claimed that the emblem came off the last C34 Jim Lansing worked on before he died. Yes, a C34.
My first message;
"Are you suggesting, the emblem you have up for auction came off the very last C34 cabinet that Jim Lansing worked on?
If so, you should have documentation to back up your claim. Since the James B. Lansing Manufacturing Company NEVER serialized ANY C34 cabinet, proving the emblem came off the very last C34 Jim "worked on" would be an absolute feat of magic. Not only that, but how is anyone to know if the emblem came off a C34, C36, or a Hartsfield?
Good luck trying to get a legitimate collector to believe that yarn."
His reply;
"Don't be stupid! This series of cabs was one of the last things Lansing worked on before his death. Perhaps you should get your facts straight before you shoot your mouth off!"
My last message;
"Jim Lansing committed suicide in 1949, years before the C34 existed. Perhaps it is you who should get YOUR facts straight before shooting your mouth off. You know absolutely nothing about the history of LMCo, or JBL. Anyone who knows about Lansing history must be getting a good laugh over the B.S. you're spewing. Good luck with your fraud you hack!"
This story also reminds me of an auction two years ago for an RCA something or other. The seller in his write up went on endlessly about the technical aspects of the item, of which I'm sure he had no understanding as what he wrote was obviously copied out of a brochure, then onto the history of RCA and made a special note about Harry Olson being the founder of RCA. Harry Olson was barely nineteen years old when RCA was founded!
I'm also reminded of a post here in the forum regarding a chap who offered up photographs of a "prototype" Minigon that Jim Lansing Built in his garage. Really?
Obviously the chap with the MINIGON was misinformed, but there are some people on Ebay who chose not to be informed, but rather to wallow in willful ignorance, and perpetrate a deception on the buying public.
Then there are folks who offer up "matched pairs" of driver this or that. Some go as far to put a VOM on each speaker indicating that one is 6.5 ohms, and the other 7.2 ohms, with serial numbers that are probably weeks if not months apart. I told one seller that the only thing "matched" about his speakers is the paint and manufacturer, and even sometimes the paint between the two is different shades of the same color. Matched pair?
Anyone have any silly stories about misinformed audio troglodytes to offer up?
H.F.
My first message;
"Are you suggesting, the emblem you have up for auction came off the very last C34 cabinet that Jim Lansing worked on?
If so, you should have documentation to back up your claim. Since the James B. Lansing Manufacturing Company NEVER serialized ANY C34 cabinet, proving the emblem came off the very last C34 Jim "worked on" would be an absolute feat of magic. Not only that, but how is anyone to know if the emblem came off a C34, C36, or a Hartsfield?
Good luck trying to get a legitimate collector to believe that yarn."
His reply;
"Don't be stupid! This series of cabs was one of the last things Lansing worked on before his death. Perhaps you should get your facts straight before you shoot your mouth off!"
My last message;
"Jim Lansing committed suicide in 1949, years before the C34 existed. Perhaps it is you who should get YOUR facts straight before shooting your mouth off. You know absolutely nothing about the history of LMCo, or JBL. Anyone who knows about Lansing history must be getting a good laugh over the B.S. you're spewing. Good luck with your fraud you hack!"
This story also reminds me of an auction two years ago for an RCA something or other. The seller in his write up went on endlessly about the technical aspects of the item, of which I'm sure he had no understanding as what he wrote was obviously copied out of a brochure, then onto the history of RCA and made a special note about Harry Olson being the founder of RCA. Harry Olson was barely nineteen years old when RCA was founded!
I'm also reminded of a post here in the forum regarding a chap who offered up photographs of a "prototype" Minigon that Jim Lansing Built in his garage. Really?
Obviously the chap with the MINIGON was misinformed, but there are some people on Ebay who chose not to be informed, but rather to wallow in willful ignorance, and perpetrate a deception on the buying public.
Then there are folks who offer up "matched pairs" of driver this or that. Some go as far to put a VOM on each speaker indicating that one is 6.5 ohms, and the other 7.2 ohms, with serial numbers that are probably weeks if not months apart. I told one seller that the only thing "matched" about his speakers is the paint and manufacturer, and even sometimes the paint between the two is different shades of the same color. Matched pair?
Anyone have any silly stories about misinformed audio troglodytes to offer up?
H.F.