Horn Fanatic
06-15-2015, 08:19 PM
Check this out. Has anyone ever heard of this speaker? I'll post the auction, because at the ridiculous price of $24,500 good ol'e Al will be sitting on them for quite a while, just like his other auctions that have languished for five years, and more, because he thinks his auction items are worth five times more than they really are. His explanation as to the origin and purpose of the speaker is conveniently nebulous. I've had it to the back teeth with these Ebay predators hoping to hook unsuspecting buyers. Like the guy who always posts minty pairs of Bubble Backs, year after year. Hal Cox was the first one to clue me in on Ebay counterfeiters.
"The only thing that I have heard of with a similar cone was a special speaker designed for the TODDI theater which was a model 520 or something like that in model number."
He must mean Mike Todd, of Todd-AO. As for the, "model 520 or something like that in model number"? He may be confusing it with the 5000 series AMPEX theater bass horns.
Frankly, I think they are counterfeits. There is a lot of that going around with the 150 drivers on Ebay. The shoddy cone stamp is usually a dead give away. The ink looks brand new. The nomenclature decals are in perfect shape, as if they were applied yesterday, but the Lansing decals didn't fare so well? And what happened to the bug screens?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UnHeard-of-JBL-150-4B-SE-Possibly-ProtoType-Paragon-Hartsfield-C55-or-others-/381279781431?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58c60bc237
In case the auction goes away;
http://view2health.com/jbl1504bse4.JPG
"The only thing that I have heard of with a similar cone was a special speaker designed for the TODDI theater which was a model 520 or something like that in model number."
He must mean Mike Todd, of Todd-AO. As for the, "model 520 or something like that in model number"? He may be confusing it with the 5000 series AMPEX theater bass horns.
Frankly, I think they are counterfeits. There is a lot of that going around with the 150 drivers on Ebay. The shoddy cone stamp is usually a dead give away. The ink looks brand new. The nomenclature decals are in perfect shape, as if they were applied yesterday, but the Lansing decals didn't fare so well? And what happened to the bug screens?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UnHeard-of-JBL-150-4B-SE-Possibly-ProtoType-Paragon-Hartsfield-C55-or-others-/381279781431?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58c60bc237
In case the auction goes away;
http://view2health.com/jbl1504bse4.JPG