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Mystery speakers - Fender/Celestion/Motorola

  • 08-04-2013 12:16AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭


    Hi guys!

    I picked up a pair of secondhand passive speakers for (what I thought) was a fairly reasonable price.

    I opened them up this evening, as I want to solder in speakon jacks.

    They have a Fender Electronics badge on the front, inside is a Celestion K12T- 100 speaker, and the tweeters have a Motorola badge on it??
    :confused:

    Can anyone tell me anything about these speakers?? (Age, value, quality etc.)


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭TroutMask


    I'm guessing early-mid 90's? The Celestion K12T-100 is their OEM version of the same speaker - so they were supplying to Fender. It is a cheap, stamped-basket LF driver with a ceramic magnet. The Motorola is, I'm guessing, a Piezo driver coupled to a plastic horn flare, with a cap in series to act as a 'crossover'. Value, hmm - well, they do say 'Fender' on the front......... Quality - better than a PA speaker from Maplin. It's essentially a grot box with cheap, albeit name-brand, components. You might get pleasing results from it if the box design is good: one of those serendipitous 'sum is better than the individual parts' scenarios. I had a cheap Community speaker once that was essentially a POS but sounded very good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭DanielGibbons


    TroutMask wrote: »
    I'm guessing early-mid 90's? The Celestion K12T-100 is their OEM version of the same speaker - so they were supplying to Fender. It is a cheap, stamped-basket LF driver with a ceramic magnet. The Motorola is, I'm guessing, a Piezo driver coupled to a plastic horn flare, with a cap in series to act as a 'crossover'. Value, hmm - well, they do say 'Fender' on the front......... Quality - better than a PA speaker from Maplin. It's essentially a grot box with cheap, albeit name-brand, components. You might get pleasing results from it if the box design is good: one of those serendipitous 'sum is better than the individual parts' scenarios. I had a cheap Community speaker once that was essentially a POS but sounded very good.

    Haha yeah fair enough! I'll post a few pictures so you can have a gawk, I only plan on using them as bass monitors anyway!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭DanielGibbons


    Some photos of the tweeters:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 216 ✭✭DanielGibbons


    Other parts, including the actual speakers, cabs, fender logo, and resistors, which are soldered onto the + of the tweeter?


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