1983?? The design of that thing is WAY ahead of its time! That's honestly impressive. Remember what factory car stereos sounded like in the 80s? For $80, this thing would have actually made a distinct difference with the kind of music most people were listening to at the time. Major Wife Approval Factor as well, for folks that are into that sort of thing. Easy to hide away, not overbearing. Really cool piece of lost history there!
I agree, that was way ahead of its time. my first thought when i saw it was the bose wave radio. i bet you were the cool kid on the block with the 8 track radio if you had that sub. I kinda want one, even though I have 2 8's and a 10 in my truck. lol
@rhkips giving me flashbacks to when I first got my 1988 f150. Had the original speakers in it and I took them out and sold them in the garage sale. They sounded absolutely terrible. Upgraded to cheap Walmart speakers that beat factory into the ground
@@rhkips big D!!! List history!??? Guy ,please do a bit about Hollywood sound labs. Hollywood invented the extended pole ,bumped back plate. Not kicker !!! Hollywood has the first 1 ohm amps. Hollywood has the first vacuum formed cones. Fiberglass kevlar cones? Not digital designs. It was Hollywoods reference woofers in 1993. First dual 6 ohm subs. Oh ,I forgot to mention: Hollywood sound labs manufactured over 50 %0of the marketplace. Mtx, Rockford,velodyne ,boss,rainbow and many more major name brands ... Hollywood sound Labs manufactured OEM, and under their own name branded Hollywood sound labs, audio gods, Hollywood digital, excursion brands. ..0h ,they also had the first bass tubes !!! And to this day their designs are copied and patients stolen.
@Imageloading... Funny you mention that but my buddy had one of those and the first time I sit in his car and heard the infinite baffle boom coming from his Caprice classic was amazing it was truly the most impressive stock car audio bass I had ever heard.
@@dragan3290 It was at first for 7 years in a good shop 10 years in a poorly managed shop it could become a nightmare the boss was all about money and did not pay worth a fuc* got sick of his collage snobby ass And walked out on him. Guy didn't know how to run his shop nor did he care about his help. I would rather sit at home then deal with a jackass like that.
@302hobronco the 2 guys in the car about died too.. interesting fact, the explosion left both men deaf from the pressure of the explosion. It was not car audio related. Iirc it was an alternative fuel delivery system that exploded..
I didn't start hearing systems on the street until around 1989, but it was still pretty rare. I still remember the Low rider pickup truck in my neighborhood, Probably bumpin 10s.
My brother had one of those sitting on the back dash of his 1986 Buick Skylark. He got T-boned and the car spun around a few times and that thing went flying. I found it about 100 feet down the road from the accident and we tested it later. Still worked.
🎶I got 8 threes bumpin in the trunk, When I turn the bass up you know it bump🎶 when Dee test my amp I get crunk, all my threes in the trunk gon stunt🎶 That's a meelion dolla song right dere 🤣
Just watching this video on my way home from work in my work car (factory radio), cars next to me at traffic lights were rolling up their windows and looking for the source of the thunderous bass put out by this BeAsT!
@@Tallchevy350 yep. Can't complain that the car would run down the road but he always had to park on hills in case it had to be started with a clutch drop. His personal Fun old toy I guess 🤣
@@chriskennedy8525 awesome! used to work with a guy who turned his engine off to coast down hills - on his birthday we blu-tacked a spirit level to his dash as his present! 😄
Those Japanese, even their low power stuff was unusually well made. I still rock a mid 80's Panasonic combo unit on the back deck, 3 glorious watts per channel but the tuner pulls in every station and it has a soft touch tape deck. They may have made some cheap stuff but it was never junk. That and being outside for 10 years hasn't hurt it a bit.
The box and the port and its length tells me it was tuned pretty low for its day.. lets refoam it and see how it sounds. Im curious about the function of the xover slope and settings.. this is really awesome in my opinion.
10 of these lined up in the rear dash of a 75 Caprice on a 50watt sparkomatic amp and a pioneer super tuner 2 knob radio plus sparkomatic eq now you getting somewhere 👍
Man I enjoy these flea-market equipment video! Thumbing through J.C. Whitney catalogs every night as a teenager, I always wanted to build a complete system from that kind of old junk. Pyramid and the like just to see if I could force the stuff to sound decent now that I have nearly 30 years of car audio experience. 😂 I'll send any unboxed old school goodness if I come across anymore. It's getting harder and harder to come by these days.
I remember being a poor dude in a 1976 Bright Orange ] AMC Gremlin in 1982 / Yes it was my first car given to me by my father after passing my DMV . test . It had a 360 V8 and he thought it was cool and it matched my 8 ft. surf board that fit on the top like it was meant to be there because it was as long as the car . So to Get to the 4 Real / I was sporting a Mustang AM FM with a cassette player that had NO rewind function . Also had a set SPARK-O-MATIC 6in round doubles in the doors and 6in ovals in the back . I also had a China made 10 lever equalizer that flashed 2 green pulse bars with the beats . I was SO COOL . Those speaker lasted about a season and crumbled in the California sun . Dude I am 56 and Still have the Surf Board .
DANGER !!! 1.21 JIGAWATTS !!! Great video! First time viewing your content and I was enjoying this a couple hours ago then someone hit the doorbell and it freaked me out. Now enjoying the rest of the teardown!
3 amps of current, what a beast! Even though I'm in my late 40s, I still miss having some decent bass on my car stereo though. One of these days I'll get around to recapping my PPI2100 amp from the 90s so I can put my 10" into my "new" truck that I've had for 8 years.
Find those old school kraco truck box speakers with a passive radiator. 6 inch driver and 8 inch radiator with a tweeter on top. I believe they sold for around 100 bucks a pair in the late 80s early 90s. Think model was kraco FX95 truck box speakers
Thanks for the trip down memory line, never had this but had all pioneer 6x9's n 6 in with a pyramid 12 band equalizer and bass booster, all in a 74 Dodge van sounded nice for 1984😂
Impressed as to how much effort was put into "trying" to make the sub/enclosure as realistic as possible. The magnet was impressive too. Funny the tuning was around 140Hz, but the filter buttons were at or below it! LOL. Surprised that even with those 2 large amp chips, probably operating in bootstrap mode only did around 10 watts rms into 4 ohms. I was hoping to see the massive power draw using your Fluke remote "amp clamp"! You would have had to wrap the power wire around the clamp twice to attempt to fool the ammeter to get it off zero amps! LOL. That was good.
Thank you for the profícuo of the pyramid speaker system I purchased from Roberta at QVC in the early 90S similar to this, thsnk all of the promoters on u-tube as well❤❤❤
I recently installed the 6 x 3 pioneer wx010 powered sub in my car, and was floored at how much bass that tiny unit put out. It pulls so little power that the instructions (and crutchfield confirmed) that you are to power it via fuse tap. Fits under the dash, easiest install ever. I had no idea that small subs were a thing back in the day.
Here's the thing. Yeah, it was 180$ on Amazon. There's a whole pile of combo amp and low profile subs available for 50$ less, and larger, and probably louder. But, I'm not amplifying my doors and rear deck. I put decent JBL speakers that took lower RMS in, just because I wasn't interested in going all out with a system again. The pioneer unit is expensive, but it's also adding just enough more low range and sound quality, and isn't drowning everything else out. So in my case, it was a really great option to finish out upgrading sound. I'm saying all this as someone who's had a couple really nice, loud, multi amp systems over the years and generally have high standards for the SQ aspect.
Those enclosed deck speakers were part of the crossover to the larger subwoofer enclosures we have now. Of coure, we all started using our house speakers in the car first.
Best 3" I've ever seen. I would have coated the foam. That would have lowered the amp, but traded for low end bass. It definitely needs EQ. The mid bass seemed to be what blowed it. Thanks... This reinforces my understanding of physics. With a little work, this would been the ish back then. I assume that's basically the same stuff as in high end portable Bluetooth speakers.
FWIW the EQ/Amp looks to have audio amplifier ICs and not discrete transistors. Each is rated for something like 5.8W so running them in a BTL configuration gives the 12W nominal output power.
That foam surround can replaced. They have them on eBay. I've replaced a pair on some 1st generation Paradigm Atoms and a pair of vintage Realistic Nova-14 speakers and they all turned out nicely. Not sure if you've re-foamed speakers before, but it's really not hard to do. I could do it for you if you want.
should have been hooked up to a 300000 w rms amp to see how it bump lol Thats a great candidate for the how far can we make the voice coil launch series.
Ah the Drew Andrew Kaplan catalog. Loved those. You had to pick through them very carefully 'cause there was plenty of dross in it. I had decent luck really. Probably the best operating item was a 15" dual-wound home subwoofer with an adequate speaker, crossover and a decent enclosure. Not audiophile grade but it filled my teenage bedroom plenty well to rattle shelves and be heard outside in the back yard with my window closed. Today I still have a few items in storage but I'd doubt they are of any use.
The big audio magazines that I got back in the mid 80's was Radio Shack, Crutchfield, JC Whitney and of course DAK! The 80's was a really incredible time for audio. Even cheap stuff was really expensive! but it was almost all innovative. What a great time to be a teenager!
I remember in either 86 or 87 I was getting tons of pyramid goodies from a black and white catalog that I somehow got a hold of from a place called the wholesale House in Hicksville Ohio
@wal2 pretty much. The company had several names throughout the years and even through the 80s they still used both names. I think in the late 90s they dropped the Warshawsky name when they closed the original storefront in Chicago.
i remember these, they're pretty good mini sub box if your looking to have a sound system but in a small scale if you have a small car or truck with limited space. i install these on my friend el camino which was a nice set up. two 6x9 with build in tweakers by kenwood, two kenwood 5inch speakers and a pair of these mini sub box behind the car seat.
Oh my... that DAK catalog takes me back. My dad and uncle would order stuff from there. I liked reading the founder's stories on product evaluation. I think I bought something for my car in 1984.
LMAO exploding car got me good one man good one great video. By the way, you won’t believe this, but my father found me one of those exact systems new in box practically with a whole bunch of stuff from Salvation Army and I was coming back in the 90s when I just started college. Had the matching booster and everything. I always thought it was a novel and I may still have it around the house. I don’t know. I never took it too seriously, I did hook a small boss amp up to it one time just for laughs and giggles
He was the house DJ at one of our first Orlando hip hop clubs called electric avenue in 1986 or so... I don't think he had founded his company yet which was called cheetah records... But the hip hop scene in Orlando was so small back then so that made it a really cool time because we all kind of knew each other
I had one of these in a 75 mustang under the dash,thanks for the memory,back then it wasn't a bad idea,12 watts was a lot then! I have tons of old audio buyers guides if you want them,along with 70s and 80s Playboy magazines,lol
For how old that thing is, I knew that the surround was either going to be rotted or break apart as soon as it played. 25 watts is low enough and when I saw that the dyno only said 8, I couldn’t hold my breath anymore from laughing. Not even Dick Riculous could say anything about it. Lol
Surprisingly enough I have a Dodge 6x9 that's supposedly 15`w 4ohms and it's indestructible for my receivers. I've put it through 100w and it still won't blow.
It's impressive what Sony did with their DSX GS series headunits with built in amps. They're rated at 100watts max X4 and 45 watts RMS X4 but hit 56 watts X4 on each channel at 4 ohms.
Nostalgic factor from the 80’s is a 8/10. Some dancing LEDs would have definitely made it 10/10. I’m sure a modern class D amplifier with modern high excursion mini-woofer works blow this out of the water but you have to remember this in the context of early 80s
It would be fun to get on Parts Express and find a nice replacement for it with a nice rubber surround and heck it probably have better specs than this speaker so it would be fun to retest it! 👍👍
Honestly. It probably had a little better bass response back when in 83 when the rubber wasn't disintegrated. You should put a brand new mini sub in the existing box but also put thinner better wave blocking foam glued to all the inside walls giving the maximum amount of air passage travel for the sub to breathe. And put a little strip of foam insulation around the hole the sub goes into to rule out any unwanted air leaks.
I had one similar to these back in the day. But it was 250 watts and had a 6.5" woofer before they were cool. Lol. It was called a "Power Mouse" 🐀🐀🐀. It was made with wood instead of plastic though. And had a nice t-line style box with the amp and everything built in. Had led lights that flashed like a vu meter. Lol.
1983?? The design of that thing is WAY ahead of its time! That's honestly impressive. Remember what factory car stereos sounded like in the 80s? For $80, this thing would have actually made a distinct difference with the kind of music most people were listening to at the time. Major Wife Approval Factor as well, for folks that are into that sort of thing. Easy to hide away, not overbearing. Really cool piece of lost history there!
I agree, that was way ahead of its time. my first thought when i saw it was the bose wave radio. i bet you were the cool kid on the block with the 8 track radio if you had that sub. I kinda want one, even though I have 2 8's and a 10 in my truck. lol
@rhkips giving me flashbacks to when I first got my 1988 f150. Had the original speakers in it and I took them out and sold them in the garage sale. They sounded absolutely terrible. Upgraded to cheap Walmart speakers that beat factory into the ground
@@rhkips big D!!! List history!??? Guy ,please do a bit about Hollywood sound labs.
Hollywood invented the extended pole ,bumped back plate. Not kicker !!!
Hollywood has the first 1 ohm amps. Hollywood has the first vacuum formed cones. Fiberglass kevlar cones? Not digital designs. It was Hollywoods reference woofers in 1993. First dual 6 ohm subs. Oh ,I forgot to mention: Hollywood sound labs manufactured over 50 %0of the marketplace. Mtx, Rockford,velodyne ,boss,rainbow and many more major name brands ... Hollywood sound Labs manufactured OEM, and under their own name branded Hollywood sound labs, audio gods, Hollywood digital, excursion brands. ..0h ,they also had the first bass tubes !!! And to this day their designs are copied and patients stolen.
1983 Caprice Classic factory 6x9 in rear deck probably sounded better
@Imageloading... Funny you mention that but my buddy had one of those and the first time I sit in his car and heard the infinite baffle boom coming from his Caprice classic was amazing it was truly the most impressive stock car audio bass I had ever heard.
I had a car audio business from 1998 to 2005. It was called" Good vibrations audio" and our slogan was " come see Watts shaking" ....
That is a dream job! Cheers from Australia 👍
@@dragan3290
It was at first for 7 years in a good shop
10 years in a poorly managed shop it could become a nightmare the boss was all about money and did not pay worth a fuc* got sick of his collage snobby ass
And walked out on him. Guy didn't know how to run his shop nor did he care about his help. I would rather sit at home then deal with a jackass like that.
Awesome.... my local shop had bumper stickers saying, "if your mirrors ain't shakin, you've been takin' 😂
@bobbg9041 this is literally most shops I've worked at. It sucks. Amazing hobby. Terrible job.
that place sounds familiar, where was it located?
I had a pair of those in my Yugo way back in 1988! Thumped so hard the vibration pushed me down the road! Hit 88mph and here i am today!
Those jigga watts got ya!!!
Sounds like you drove a delorean.....get it, 88 mph
😂
ya know what you call a 4-door Yugo?... A Wego.
I about died with the clip of the car exploding. Well done. Lol
i think the people in the car about did
@302hobronco the 2 guys in the car about died too.. interesting fact, the explosion left both men deaf from the pressure of the explosion. It was not car audio related. Iirc it was an alternative fuel delivery system that exploded..
😂😂😂😂😂 Had me seriously "LOL" 😂
Wicked funny, I was dying, laughing so hard.
😂
They sure as hell weren't playin' around back in the 80's!
Imagine the meetups and flexing that bass.
I didn't start hearing systems on the street until around 1989, but it was still pretty rare. I still remember the Low rider pickup truck in my neighborhood, Probably bumpin 10s.
I was expecting your neighbors to call the cops from all that bass 😆🔊🔊
Quad-Box got nothin on this 3"
My ear drums burst 😢
😂
China felt that thing in there toes. 😂
It cracked my phone screen.
My brother had one of those sitting on the back dash of his 1986 Buick Skylark. He got T-boned and the car spun around a few times and that thing went flying. I found it about 100 feet down the road from the accident and we tested it later. Still worked.
😮
Hell yeah it is, I've got 8 of them running off of a Pyramid booster/EQ!
Boom!!
Need a Realistic eq/booster for ultimate sq😂😂😂
Hey Big D.... Make another video with this enclosure and a Tang Band 3" sub😎✌️@@wal2
🎶I got 8 threes bumpin in the trunk,
When I turn the bass up you know it bump🎶 when Dee test my amp I get crunk, all my threes in the trunk gon stunt🎶
That's a meelion dolla song right dere 🤣
Sitting on the rear deck of your car lol
Just watching this video on my way home from work in my work car (factory radio), cars next to me at traffic lights were rolling up their windows and looking for the source of the thunderous bass put out by this BeAsT!
My uncle used to have one of these when I was a kid. I've truly never seen another. He had it in his yugo funny enough.
That was a factory option from Yugo. 😂
That was the biggest woofer that would fit in a Yugo! 😂
@@Tallchevy350 yep. Can't complain that the car would run down the road but he always had to park on hills in case it had to be started with a clutch drop. His personal Fun old toy I guess 🤣
@@chriskennedy8525 awesome! used to work with a guy who turned his engine off to coast down hills - on his birthday we blu-tacked a spirit level to his dash as his present! 😄
Love to see that mini B2 Subwoofer in that thing.
This little amp is beautiful.
i couldn't stop laughing during the extra side clip videos during testing.
thank you, i love it.
Totally remember stuff like that from the 80s! Those early days for car audio were interesting to say the least!
Those Japanese, even their low power stuff was unusually well made. I still rock a mid 80's Panasonic combo unit on the back deck, 3 glorious watts per channel but the tuner pulls in every station and it has a soft touch tape deck. They may have made some cheap stuff but it was never junk. That and being outside for 10 years hasn't hurt it a bit.
Dwiz funny he said oooooo we get a whole watt more I died 🤣 😂
This is exactly why I come here. Never heard of this and loved it!!!!
that grocery store clip made me spit out my coffee.......thanks! :P
Sorry!
@@wal2 no, no yer not! :D I think I saw these at Jhonny's Speed and Sound in Buena Park back in the day!
it's awesome that our generation got to see the start of audio and how far we have come. Always appreciate what you do Big D!
Nostalgia struck the second I saw the thumbnail. Thanks for covering this time capsule gem!
You should throw a tang band mini 3 inch woofer or a Dayton audio one and see how it does with a modern speaker that would be really cool to see
Parts express has replacement woofer for it. 😉
I would put a nice 3” Dayton Audio or Tangband in it.
@@Bassotronics Tangband for the win!!
🤣🤣🤣
@@joeyholthusen6495 it would be better to buy a modern sub.
@@91CavGT5 That's what I was think then wire in a cheater amp it would be amazing.
That thing was MOVIN!
The box and the port and its length tells me it was tuned pretty low for its day.. lets refoam it and see how it sounds. Im curious about the function of the xover slope and settings.. this is really awesome in my opinion.
What an awesome find...In pristine condition.
next a video on replacing surrounds....you can get them and its would make good content
Yea boi I love the cheesiness of old school stuff 😊
I mean, how can you not love these?
You almost expected those " real testimonials " to start with " I never thought I would be one to have a story to share .." .
It clearly said it was made in Japan but ok
@@Valverde713 And your point is???????????????
@@Styphoryte it's pretty straightforward and self explanatory
10 of these lined up in the rear dash of a 75 Caprice on a 50watt sparkomatic amp and a pioneer super tuner 2 knob radio plus sparkomatic eq now you getting somewhere 👍
Man I enjoy these flea-market equipment video! Thumbing through J.C. Whitney catalogs every night as a teenager, I always wanted to build a complete system from that kind of old junk. Pyramid and the like just to see if I could force the stuff to sound decent now that I have nearly 30 years of car audio experience. 😂 I'll send any unboxed old school goodness if I come across anymore. It's getting harder and harder to come by these days.
I thoroughly enjoyed this old school test! Brings me back to simpler times. :)
I remember being a poor dude in a 1976 Bright Orange ] AMC Gremlin in 1982 / Yes it was my first car given to me by my father after passing my DMV . test . It had a 360 V8 and he thought it was cool and it matched my 8 ft. surf board that fit on the top like it was meant to be there because it was as long as the car . So to Get to the 4 Real / I was sporting a Mustang AM FM with a cassette player that had NO rewind function . Also had a set SPARK-O-MATIC 6in round doubles in the doors and 6in ovals in the back . I also had a China made 10 lever equalizer that flashed 2 green pulse bars with the beats . I was SO COOL . Those speaker lasted about a season and crumbled in the California sun . Dude I am 56 and Still have the Surf Board .
DANGER !!! 1.21 JIGAWATTS !!!
Great video! First time viewing your content and I was enjoying this a couple hours ago then someone hit the doorbell and it freaked me out. Now enjoying the rest of the teardown!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Deserves a new woofer I think, what a fun little relic.
3 amps of current, what a beast! Even though I'm in my late 40s, I still miss having some decent bass on my car stereo though. One of these days I'll get around to recapping my PPI2100 amp from the 90s so I can put my 10" into my "new" truck that I've had for 8 years.
Find those old school kraco truck box speakers with a passive radiator. 6 inch driver and 8 inch radiator with a tweeter on top. I believe they sold for around 100 bucks a pair in the late 80s early 90s. Think model was kraco FX95 truck box speakers
FX95
I LOVE your humor vignettes and little that go with it!
Thanks for the trip down memory line, never had this but had all pioneer 6x9's n 6 in with a pyramid 12 band equalizer and bass booster, all in a 74 Dodge van sounded nice for 1984😂
I would have bought it on its good looks alone!
Soooo beautiful especially the amplifier.... Love it 😍.
dude, the picture of that walkman... takes me back.
the gold writing on top of the sub reminds me of the old Pyramid brand.
The post it note made it legit. Id put that in my kids' power wheels!
I picked 8 watts, nailed it! (At least in one test 😂)
Dude that is hilarious! I wonder how many of them they sold.
Impressed as to how much effort was put into "trying" to make the sub/enclosure as realistic as possible. The magnet was impressive too. Funny the tuning was around 140Hz, but the filter buttons were at or below it! LOL. Surprised that even with those 2 large amp chips, probably operating in bootstrap mode only did around 10 watts rms into 4 ohms. I was hoping to see the massive power draw using your Fluke remote "amp clamp"! You would have had to wrap the power wire around the clamp twice to attempt to fool the ammeter to get it off zero amps! LOL. That was good.
Thank you for the profícuo of the pyramid speaker system I purchased from Roberta at QVC in the early 90S similar to this, thsnk all of the promoters on u-tube as well❤❤❤
Considering most stereos from that era sounded like two soup cans tethered by a string, I could see this being an upgrade.
OMG! I had one of those back in the late 80s. Never hooked it up though.
Awesome. That DAK advertisement with the KLH tuner cassette on the other page. I had that!
I was 9 years old when this was new and I would have salivated having this then.
I recently installed the 6 x 3 pioneer wx010 powered sub in my car, and was floored at how much bass that tiny unit put out. It pulls so little power that the instructions (and crutchfield confirmed) that you are to power it via fuse tap.
Fits under the dash, easiest install ever. I had no idea that small subs were a thing back in the day.
@@No_Use_For_A_Name1981 you’re out of your mind to pay $200+ for that thing. There are FAR better options for less money, even if space is limited
Here's the thing. Yeah, it was 180$ on Amazon. There's a whole pile of combo amp and low profile subs available for 50$ less, and larger, and probably louder.
But, I'm not amplifying my doors and rear deck. I put decent JBL speakers that took lower RMS in, just because I wasn't interested in going all out with a system again.
The pioneer unit is expensive, but it's also adding just enough more low range and sound quality, and isn't drowning everything else out. So in my case, it was a really great option to finish out upgrading sound.
I'm saying all this as someone who's had a couple really nice, loud, multi amp systems over the years and generally have high standards for the SQ aspect.
I would have obsessed over something like this as a kid
Those enclosed deck speakers were part of the crossover to the larger subwoofer enclosures we have now. Of coure, we all started using our house speakers in the car first.
Best 3" I've ever seen. I would have coated the foam. That would have lowered the amp, but traded for low end bass. It definitely needs EQ. The mid bass seemed to be what blowed it. Thanks... This reinforces my understanding of physics. With a little work, this would been the ish back then. I assume that's basically the same stuff as in high end portable Bluetooth speakers.
Awesome and totally usable for someone's system
FWIW the EQ/Amp looks to have audio amplifier ICs and not discrete transistors. Each is rated for something like 5.8W so running them in a BTL configuration gives the 12W nominal output power.
That little thing looks awesome imo.
I had one, it definitely added to the back dash 6x9 situation in those days
You have 2 channels!!! More content from you is CRAZY
Aw NICE I had one of these as a kid in the early 90's. I used to power it with my walkman. It wasn't too bad for that
I once made a sub out of 2 JVC TV speakers and a box the bass was so good the room next to it would vibrate with the bass
That thing looks sick. I want one on my bookshelf.
That's cool bro.. where we are now from where we come from is always awesome to see. Thank you 👍
I was in the 90s car sub era but this is awesome to see.
I can imagine a wall of like 20 of those stacked while he's testing it out they sound pretty cool for being so small
That foam surround can replaced. They have them on eBay. I've replaced a pair on some 1st generation Paradigm Atoms and a pair of vintage Realistic Nova-14 speakers and they all turned out nicely. Not sure if you've re-foamed speakers before, but it's really not hard to do. I could do it for you if you want.
should have been hooked up to a 300000 w rms amp to see how it bump lol
Thats a great candidate for the how far can we make the voice coil launch series.
Ah the Drew Andrew Kaplan catalog.
Loved those.
You had to pick through them very carefully 'cause there was plenty of dross in it. I had decent luck really. Probably the best operating item was a 15" dual-wound home subwoofer with an adequate speaker, crossover and a decent enclosure. Not audiophile grade but it filled my teenage bedroom plenty well to rattle shelves and be heard outside in the back yard with my window closed.
Today I still have a few items in storage but I'd doubt they are of any use.
Sparkomatic all the way. JL audio just wishes
Wow DAK! Man I used to get so excited when I was a kid every time a new one would show in the mail.
Someone scanned and put many up on archive.org. A true blast from the past!
The big audio magazines that I got back in the mid 80's was Radio Shack, Crutchfield, JC Whitney and of course DAK! The 80's was a really incredible time for audio. Even cheap stuff was really expensive! but it was almost all innovative. What a great time to be a teenager!
I remember in either 86 or 87 I was getting tons of pyramid goodies from a black and white catalog that I somehow got a hold of from a place called the wholesale House in Hicksville Ohio
I remember them too!!!!!!
Best time for audio was 89/90s
Fun checking the mailbox every day for new catalogs or magazines to drool over
That is 100% something you would have found in a Warshawsky catalog!! Love it!
I’ve never heard of that catalog but just looked it up and that was JC Whitney to I guess those outside of the Chicago area?
@wal2 pretty much. The company had several names throughout the years and even through the 80s they still used both names. I think in the late 90s they dropped the Warshawsky name when they closed the original storefront in Chicago.
i remember these, they're pretty good mini sub box if your looking to have a sound system but in a small scale if you have a small car or truck with limited space. i install these on my friend el camino which was a nice set up. two 6x9 with build in tweakers by kenwood, two kenwood 5inch speakers and a pair of these mini sub box behind the car seat.
Oh my... that DAK catalog takes me back. My dad and uncle would order stuff from there. I liked reading the founder's stories on product evaluation. I think I bought something for my car in 1984.
Yeah man they were awesome!
LMAO exploding car got me good one man good one great video. By the way, you won’t believe this, but my father found me one of those exact systems new in box practically with a whole bunch of stuff from Salvation Army and I was coming back in the 90s when I just started college. Had the matching booster and everything. I always thought it was a novel and I may still have it around the house. I don’t know. I never took it too seriously, I did hook a small boss amp up to it one time just for laughs and giggles
Reminds me of the old 70's pioneer stuff!!! Huge in Puerto Rico!!!
Perfect for kids power wheels ! It is super cool looking item
He was the house DJ at one of our first Orlando hip hop clubs called electric avenue in 1986 or so... I don't think he had founded his company yet which was called cheetah records... But the hip hop scene in Orlando was so small back then so that made it a really cool time because we all kind of knew each other
Big d have you ever herd of volcano speakers from the early 90s? I am lucky enough to have been gifted two 15s and can not find any info on them
sounds like a bass harmonica..i love it..
I had one of these in a 75 mustang under the dash,thanks for the memory,back then it wasn't a bad idea,12 watts was a lot then! I have tons of old audio buyers guides if you want them,along with 70s and 80s Playboy magazines,lol
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¿Que donde es Senior Riculous?
Love those two little mosfets. That's all it needed 😮
Oh for shizzle! My friend had one of those on his dash that made the kraco and 6x9's sound pretty 👍
This test was awesome!! Lol. Love this old equipment testing
6:45 that papershaker sure does bump! 😆
Should put a new model 3” sub in that old style housing, nostalgia 😁
For how old that thing is, I knew that the surround was either going to be rotted or break apart as soon as it played. 25 watts is low enough and when I saw that the dyno only said 8, I couldn’t hold my breath anymore from laughing.
Not even Dick Riculous could say anything about it. Lol
Surprisingly enough I have a Dodge 6x9 that's supposedly 15`w 4ohms and it's indestructible for my receivers. I've put it through 100w and it still won't blow.
That booster case looks just like the Clarion OEM amps that came in my '85 RX7 GSL.
It's impressive what Sony did with their DSX GS series headunits with built in amps. They're rated at 100watts max X4 and 45 watts RMS X4 but hit 56 watts X4 on each channel at 4 ohms.
lmao the foam on the cone was literally disintegrating as it was playing its so old lol
Nostalgic factor from the 80’s is a 8/10. Some dancing LEDs would have definitely made it 10/10. I’m sure a modern class D amplifier with modern high excursion mini-woofer works blow this out of the water but you have to remember this in the context of early 80s
Thats a sick little oldscool gaget
Loves this one… guys these days have no idea what it took to make bass back in the days
I love this retro tech, real mecanical buttons
Put a B2 mini sub in that box and wire it up to that booster. Magical.
that sweet thunder made my ears pop😂
It would be fun to get on Parts Express and find a nice replacement for it with a nice rubber surround and heck it probably have better specs than this speaker so it would be fun to retest it! 👍👍
I really want this for my 93 toyota camry
Honestly. It probably had a little better bass response back when in 83 when the rubber wasn't disintegrated. You should put a brand new mini sub in the existing box but also put thinner better wave blocking foam glued to all the inside walls giving the maximum amount of air passage travel for the sub to breathe. And put a little strip of foam insulation around the hole the sub goes into to rule out any unwanted air leaks.
I had one similar to these back in the day. But it was 250 watts and had a 6.5" woofer before they were cool. Lol. It was called a "Power Mouse" 🐀🐀🐀. It was made with wood instead of plastic though. And had a nice t-line style box with the amp and everything built in. Had led lights that flashed like a vu meter. Lol.
Hey, not bad at all taking in consideration the age of the "mega-bassss-explosssion-system". Cool to see that!
Well the thing is beautiful, I will give it that.
The bass booster is cool, love the finish on it. As for the speaker, tell me it doesn't hold up today?