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early christmas gifts ....
I was driving down the street last weekend after some Christmas shopping and spotted some big speakers out at the curb. turned out to be an Olympus (S-7 system) and a D1002 (with hi-freq modified to match the Olympus with the slant lens) and a third speaker that I've yet to identify. The guy clearing out his garage helped me load them, and refused any payment at all. I think I'll have to send him a Christmas basket. Any guesses on what the third speaker is?
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closer look at mystery speaker
I thought it might be a furniture finished version of an old Altec when I saw it from the street.
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label on back of the D-1002 cabinet
woofer is torn up, haven't tested horn
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mystery solved! (sort-of)
Opening up the third speaker, the one that originally caught my eye as I was driving along an unfamiliar street proved to be the most fun of all.
Here were the D-1001 Jim Lansing Signature components!
No crossover, mounted eccentrically, and the H-1000 horn seems to have one corner of the mounting flange cut off, but there they were.
The woofer is the D130A and the horn driver is designated D-175 as in the 1948 brochure (compared to the D-175H name in 1949) BUT neither has a serial number that I can make out on the typewritten model tag. I was photographing the tags with the aid of an inspection mirror, didn't actually lay eyes on them until I blew up the digital pictures later, but no serial numbers?
Did they only assign serial numbers to the drivers that were sold separately?
Could this have been a system sold to a factory employee?
And does anyone recognize the cabinet? material attached to the back looks like crepe paper. Original baffle cut-out looks like it's for a single 15 with a big rectangular port below.
So it looks llike Santa brought me MOST of a D-1002 after all!