Recent content by Rotorbar

Neck what? I was looking for some stuff on reconing speakers, and I stumbled across this web site and this thread. It's not like someone found the cure for cancer, but it is interesting reading. Regards, Roto?

Loudspeaker reconing is not black magic. I suppose it's not for everyone. It seems to be in that gray area that requires technical knowledge and manual dexterity skills at the same time. On the other hand, it's not like you had to make the paper cone and wind the voice coil yourself. The...

Tone. You could fill a room without cranking it up, and they had a way of cutting through the mix (live or recorded) and standing out without simply drowning out everything else. From 1969 until about 1982 the only competition was Acoustic, and they were so far from SVT's in tone that the...

Sorry, I had to go for a minute. To finish the thought, I almost never cook voice coils with too much clean power. It's always been when I had not enough amp for the gig and I cranked it up too far and it distorted. That was one reason why I went with way-too-big Crowns this time around...

I used to blow E140's about every ten months. The tools of destruction were a four string pbass and one SVT for every two E140's. It was a fairly large rig. Music Dealer Service (JBL reps) in Chicago knew me. JBL was really into warranties back then, and they'd recone them every ten months...

I have two fretless pbasses. They're all I have, so I guess I'm skipping the other way; I don't have a fretted bass. No, I'm not a snob, or at least I don't think I am. I'd agree that fretless is almost a whole 'nother animal. I find that they're more work to play, but I like them. I like...